The Aloha State
The Aloha State is a studio project of Jimmy Ether focused on creating Avant-pop with flavors of R&B, Hop-hop and experimental noise.
The second tune Thad Thompson and I did this Sunday. I like where this one is heading especially. Kinda low-rent Robert Fripp/Stephen Malkmus guitar work with fuzzed out Rick bass.
Recorded with Thad Thompson on bass this past Sunday. This is the first of 2 songs we cooked up. Also, I’m bowing out of the RPM and plan on spending a couple more months on this record rather than sloppily tossing stuff down… hopefully involving even more friends.
Erik Ostrom laying down the rich 10CC vocal layer on our yacht rock tune. :)
Tracking of amplified Rhodes organ and drums for the song “Ramachandran’s Mirror Box”… which started out Christopher Cross, headed 10CC soon after this, and has veered Hall and Oates with my vocals. More on this to come…
The second song with John from Sunday. This is my personal favorite of the two. Working title “This Didn’t Happen”. This is both takes, but mostly I’ll be using the second.
Another video of Sunday… this the 1st of 2 songs I did with John of Ether Fam. Drums + guitar through MXR Blue Box.
From day 12 of #RPM12… drums for “Striking Kooks” to intentionally cheesy guide track (the guide will be tossed after this).
Drum overdubs over the Moog loops I put together earlier in the week.
I am spoiled by great bandmates in my real “bands”. Working on a solo project is a lonely tour through the dead, black heart of the soul. Probably why I’ve put it off for 10 years. Hoping it’s cathartic & fulfilling in the end. Don’t know how you full-time solo folks do it.
“Striking Kooks”
I just lost my cool
Laid a man flat for acting the fool
Days pinned under stress
An underworked over-extended mess
Should be going great
This engineer who’s steeped in solid-state
Sits here sipping foam
Numb, ashamed, afraid to go back home
I just read a book
Of a moral man who turned a crook
When he laid in bed
He found he’d swapped a different kind of dread
Got me pondering
About this precious time I’m squandering
Fixed on feebleness
As if I need some place to convalesce
Ignition of ambition
Vacillate no intuition
Striking kooks out in their prime
Begin the demolition
Shallow recess
Kids of regress
Steak your claim but dig for less
Striking kooks don’t stand behind
All fixed games are reassessed with time
