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This is a song I wrote and performed on banjo, and accompanying me on acoustic guitar/vocal harmony and harmonica are my friends George and Ryan, respectively.
indie rock shoegaze acoustic ambient folk experimental avant garde postrock
A mixture of indie, rock, experimental, ambient, acoustic folk, post rock, and instrumental.
Hey, i'm Jake, and these are some songs and demos I've made (usually by myself) over the past couple of years. I've been in quite a few bands throughout those years, and when I'm not playing, writing, or jamming with my friends and other musicians, i'm usually fiddling around with music on my own and recording random song ideas floating around in my head. I like to play and write stuff that falls into the categories of indie rock, alt-rock, shoegaze, experimental, ambient, acoustic folk, jazz, and electronic (although I try to escape the confinements of genres as much as possible). I mainly play piano, keyboards, drums/percussion, and guitar, but I dabble in others like banjo, mandolin, harmonica, bass, and kazoo. I'm obsessed with weird sounds, I guess you could say, and I'm constantly trying to find new ways to create sound via arrangements, effects, synths, happy accidents, etc. Although pretty much all of my posted songs are solo stuff, I enjoy making music much more in collaborative efforts, and am always on the lookout for any possible jam session. Enjoy!
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Peak #508
Peak in subgenre #73
Author
Jonasgrove
Uploaded
January 24, 2008
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MP3 4.5 MB 128 kbps 4:54
Story behind the song
I wrote this for an acoustic trio gig playing with two of my friends, George and Maggie, in winter of '06, and we played only once at a local coffee shop. This version was actually recorded a few months later at George's house, with most of the instruments/voices being recorded simultaneously. My largest influence for this song was Sufjan Stevens' Seven Swans album, which basically reinvented banjo for indie-folk in my opinion. The song is about the unexplainable bond between the narrator and an unidentified animal that comes into his house in the middle of the night. I have a strange feeling of nostalgia when I hear the lyrics, but I don't know where it comes from. Hope it does something for you.
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