http://codycast.podbean.com Strange Wonderful and Free Original Indie Music - High-Quality Downloadable MP3 Files Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:36:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're a fan of the band Rogue Wave check out this great PBS documentary about their drummer Pat Spurgen's search for a new kidney.  It's a great and thought-provoking doc! http://video.pbs.org/video/1321349622/ http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/11/14/watch-the-rogue-wave-doc-d-tour/ http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/11/14/the-devil-express-elevator-to-hell/ Haven't posted anything in quite a while so here's a new song. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/11/12/charge-of-the-wild-boys/ This is the first song from my new electronic band The Devil. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/09/03/its-me-by-the-devil/ More beautiful Dreampop http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/09/01/out-west-by-emil-and-friends/ This song is the aural equivalent of an all-model slow-motion pillow fight. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/08/28/fire-flower-by-emil-and-friends/ A funky dance track with extra pickles. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/08/25/specialty-sandwiches-by-emil-and-friends/ I recently got a request to play a new  band called Emil and Friends and after listening to their songs I couldn't resist.  Their music sounds current and fresh while maintaining a great retro vibe.  Check out their MySpace page www.myspace.com/emilandfriends and read their fun list of influences.  I'll be podcasting their songs over ... http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/08/24/short-order-cooks-by-emil-and-friends/ http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/08/18/ghost-of-me/ Fame kills.  Avoid fame and live forever! Some odd tuning and retro organ make this an interesting song.  No vocals yet. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/06/30/celebrities-are-dropping-like-flies-im-so-glad-im-unknown/ http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/06/24/its-for-you/ Actually this is just the instrumental version of a song that will have vocals, but it doesn't really matter.  No vocals, call it Movie Music! :-) http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/06/19/music-for-movies-11-say-goodbye/ Nancy Pelosi's unrepentant and insatiable appetite for torture could not be quenched by human suffering alone. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/05/16/music-for-movies-10-nancy-pelosi-waterboarded-my-dog/ Wet pink nose. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/26/incinerate/ a better version http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/25/music-for-movies-9-the-county-of-marin-revised/ Last Saturday, when it was storming, the sun came out from the clouds really intensely, and the raindrops looked like a million crystals falling from the sky.  I filmed it, of course.  I was hoping to film a tornado but the storm wimped out after a promising start. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/16/music-for-movies-8-the-sun-shines-bright-through-a-hard-rain/ The first time I died, I went to a secret island.  The second time I died, I couldn't find it at all. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/15/music-for-movies-7-secret-island/ A simple song of spring. Better than nuttin' I guess. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/12/music-for-movies-6-the-prima-vera/ Sometimes you imagine lying on your back in a tall-grass prairie, letting the cold hard rain of a great massive thundercloud pour down upon your body until it's as if you no longer exist, and you become one with the raindrops and the sky.   Of course you'd never actually do such a stupid thing because you'd ... http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/11/music-for-movies-5-storm-on-the-field/ This is just the backing track of a new song I'm working on. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/04/10/watch-me-drown-backing-track/ This song is good for beautiful nature sequences and travel scenes.  It's also good for scenes of a women slowly adding butter to a cob of corn, taking a big bite and then smiling with a bunch corn stuck in her teeth.  Don't backsas me. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/14/music-for-movies-4-walking-to-paradise/ You've been naughty again, haven't you? http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/14/platform-shoes/ Instrumental version. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/13/when-the-power-goes-out/ I decided to put this one on the Landslide album because it makes a good contrast to the other songs.  I'll ad vocals later if I can keep the same overall feeling. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/10/music-for-film-3-clouds-are-lonely-drifters/ Mighty Florida capsizes and sinks into the ocean.  Fortunately everyone was evacuated in time.  WHEW! http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/09/music-for-film-2-the-day-florida-fell-into-the-sea/ I'm doing free film scores for the heck of it.  This music is free to use for any fillum project.  I see this piece as late summer in a big city with long brooding shadows and cars driving backwards in-slow motion how 'bout you? http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/09/music-for-film-1-city-summer-sunset/ This was just a test of my new $30 preamp that's supposed to make my vocals sound better.  I wasn't trying to make a song but it turned out kinda funny. BTW...I don't really hate Sigur Ros, but the whining does get on my nerves after a bit. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/04/i-hate-sigur-ros-not-really/ In this revision I added a guitar solo at the beginning which I might move later. I accidentally erased this post so I had to upload it again. http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/03/03/absolutely-useless-revised/ I did this song a few summers ago long before I though of podcasting or albums or anything.  I was just playing around.  Anyway, I thought I'd lost it entirely but I found this really rough mp3 of it which I can use to recreate it for the album "Flamingo".  ... http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/02/16/when-the-power-goes-out-rough-demo-version/ This song didn't fit on my other albums but it will work perfectly on "Flamingo". http://codycast.podbean.com/2009/02/09/night-sky/