Influences: Power and prog metal, some plain old-fashioned heavy metal, and a bit of classical and baroque stuff on the side.
Hi. I'm Jim. I play the piano quite well, and the guitar and bass somewhat. I may try to squeeze in a bit of flute and mandolin as well since I've got them lying about.
I fawmed in 2012 and again in 2013 and wrote a few songs that I was more or less pleased with for what they were, but never really developed. I never finished the epic power metal concept album I was working on back then, but I've written a couple of fragments of it since. I don't have much of a plan for this year, but I'll aim to have fun, write some more music and maybe hone my skills a bit more, such as they are.
#1 | Little Demon |
2 Feb 2022 |
|
#2 | Chief Assistant to the Soup Computer |
1 Feb 2022 |
|
#3 | I Love You For Your Brain |
5 Feb 2022 |
|
#4 | Monotone |
3 Feb 2022 |
|
#5 | Berserker |
3 Feb 2022 |
|
#6 | Storm |
1 Feb 2022 |
|
#7 | 451 |
3 Feb 2022 |
|
#8 | If Love's a Game of Poker, Have a Heart |
1 Feb 2022 |
|
#9 | The inexorable march of the mutant cyber-badgers |
2 Feb 2022 |
|
#10 | One Small Step |
4 Feb 2022 |
|
#11 | Emilia |
1 Feb 2022 |
|
#12 | The Fork Hoard Song |
5 Feb 2022 |
|
#13 | Dwarf Planet |
2 Feb 2022 |
|
#14 | Paradise in Hell |
1 Feb 2022 |
Hi Jim, thanks so much for your comments on Spaceship Coffeeshop! And the feedback. I'll keep it as it is and won't add anything else then :)
Thank you for the comment. "...when the journey across the room to the sofa feels like a trip to Mars" is a really good way to put it.
Thanks for the listen and comment on 'Lost and Found'.
Thanks for visiting "Bye Bye Pluto". The fact they removed it from our list of planets is what inspired the lyric. Inspiration from Pluto's rejection.
thank you for your nice feedback on 'close'
Thanks for your kind words on 'Deep Blue Sky', much appreciated!
Hey, thanks for the comment!
*googles Gloryhammer*
I had never heard of them but now I think I love them...
Thank you for your kind comment on Unicorns Will Eat Your Face! It was my very first ever attempt at death metal screaming on a recording... I usually sing, well, very differently!
Ha, that was a strangely lucky, or not since clearly I can't recognize at 165bpm tempo.
Hahah, thank you for the wonderful comment on Ukon malja! Drunken dance round a broken computers' bonfire really made me laugh!
Hi Jim - thanks for your feedback about my "Who's shaking the jar?' song. I think the "Janet/Dammit" line comes from the Rocy Horror Picture Show and has stayed lodged in my brain ever since.
Thanks for the comment! Hit that Commodore hard!
Thanks so much for your comment on Southbound Train. My folks were big bluegrass lovers (Jews from New York-go figure), so I grew up listening to a lot of bluegrass and folk. My Dad will never forgive me for joining the orchestra after he bought me a violin-I was never a fiddler!
Hey, thank you for your kind comment on my song "Your Brain is Running out of Storage." I appreciate it :)
Thanks and I have no expectations or aspirations either. Songwriting is a hobby for me. I am very happy at my amateur level. While I have a few songs up on Bandcamp, they are mainly songs from other songwriting projects, or for friends/relatives who may want to hear what I have done.
For a collaboration, we could either exchange ideas here or feel free to email me. Or the simplest form of a collaboration, for me, is when one person starts a song and the other finishes. Let me know!
Thanks for the reply! If you are interested (no worries if not), and just for fun, there is a twin avatar challenge for collaboration. My skill set is certainly not much for metal and leans more towards guy-and-vocal/guitar lo-fi scratch track based although I do all sorts of musical experiments. Fun side note, among my other various instruments is an actual sort-of glockenspiel.
Hey Jim from a fellow glockenspiel avatar. I hope that you have a great FAWM!