AUDIO VAULT

Digging through bins of old projects, I've (re)constructed a couple of CD's (Albums, I guess you could say) from the material I still like.

Since January, I’ve been listening to old recordings that I either made myself, or was involved in as a member of a band. I haven’t recorded at all since about 2010, but from 1997 to 2008 I recorded with a number of bands and also put out music under various names as a solo artist. I am finding now that it takes just as much time to sift out the content I still like as it would take to record a new album. Funny how that works. Sometimes a person can create a feverish amount of art in a short time, when conditions are perfect for doing so, but sometimes I personally seem to be stuck on the same fragment of material for weeks.

Below are a few disks I pulled out of the pile:

From these disks, I compiled two CDs that you can listen to and purchase on Bandcamp now.

These.

…So please feel free to check out these solo works (I didn’t include material recorded with other bands) that I am listing under the name Add Oil.

NOW that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I want to talk about the importance of what some people call “bedroom recording”.

…actually, I don’t really. I’d rather share a picture of an incredibly awkward thing I wrote and inserted in a disk jacket when I was 24 years old.

Music companies that are market-driven will never be able to produce works that are as honest and personal as a person recording whatever comes to them in the moment in their own apartment. That’s just how it is. The screed below shows how I felt as a young man about the production of music recordings. It’s REALLY cringey, but it is what it is… JUST LIKE the music on my Bandcamp page.

Thanks.

-Tyrone Davies