jonathanmann:

How Does The World Work? (Song A Day #1557)

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rain/snow = nostalgia 

duderonymusbosch:

This is a rock opera written by two great musical talents who I have had the great pleasure to meet and work with on a couple of occasions. Thomas Hughes is of the perennially awesome Spinto Band, and Jonathan Mann is the always inspirational “Song A Day Man” who posts an original song every single day to YouTube. The two of these oft-times funny but always seriously talented fellahs went to college together, and wrote & starred in this musical about a great war between the Nympho Leprechauns and the Fascist Unicorns. Let the symbolism speak to you as it will…. I can think of more than a few possible connotations, specifically given the flag designs that are visible in the beginning and throughout. Oh, and beyond any political/social/whatever message, the songs are really, really good. The sort of Act 1 finale song, if there were two acts, “ON OUR WAY,” is actually on my iPod’s running playlist. It’s that get-up-and-go catchy. 

*** THE STARS SHINE / OUR PLANET’S / FAR AWAY / …. COME ON LET’S GO!! *** 

nympholeprechaun:

The Last Nympho Leprechaun

Inner Struggle Naptime Song

Neither do I… neither do I. 

jonathanmann:

I Don’t Understand Twitter (Song A Day #1326)

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A friend with a cover of this classic tune, as many of you might only know from its recent inclusion on a She & Him album.

I wish when I fiddled with ProTools it spat out things like this. All I usually get is clipping and feedback. 

ssorrow:

You Really Got a Hold On Me Cover

Fiddling with Protools, this is what came out, yay. this song came on my iPod today and i totally forgot how awesome it is so I decided to make an attempt to do it justice.
Hopefully my attempts came out somewhat fruitful.

free download

(via contraceptives)

Through some strange internet coincidences I recently became vaguely acquainted with a member of this Austrian synth quartet. Here they are covering a Donna Summer song. I have few to no words to describe how amazingly awesome, vaguely terrible, and wholly wonderful this video is. 

I Feel Love - Erstes Wiener Heimorgelorchester (EWHO) feat. Michael Ostrowski (by heimorgelorchester)

A song I wrote for a friend at NYU. It has two chords. There is a Casio SA-12 involved. 

Was just cleaning up my mac and reminiscing over old videos and pictures and stuff (maybe some soon to come here) and I came across this old textedit file from October ‘11 called “stuff to do creatively.” A bunch of it still applies and sparks somes ideas….. maybe I’ll get around to some of this stuff. Probably not though. Still, it’s good to have notes like this. I wonder what other people on here who write songs or write anything or do anything use to make notes like this or remind themselves of creative ideas they had that they can’t execute immediately………..? 

Lilia Rubin wants to make songs

Aarica North busk in wash sq.

Play/do something with Miles

Score Jon’s film — C to Em, E to Eaug, Am

Write a song about Nick’s note (knitting)

Write more songs on the piano

Album “Domiciles” about all places I’ve lived

Mister as band name

*Intern song for NY neos

Minor song like on Zombies

Window Songs

Song about our current room 907

Tapping through life

Epic folk song to end the set

Theatre girls

Spring to spring

It’s only november

Spring to spring

It can only get better

it’s all a function

LAYERS   

If you want to move, you’re going to lose your balance

but there’s something more

you’ve waited for

Maybe you already found it

A quick  jaunt down memory lane of my nearly  year-old summer in San Francisco. Took lots of photos, but given the eminent release of The Spinto Band’s new album in May 1st, posting these music- and Spinto-related pics first. Most of these are from the studio I got to work in with them on Jonathan Mann’s Song A Day: The Album project in June 2011.

BALewis//

A silly song I wrote and recorded a while ago about dorm life at NYU. Somehow I got all my roommates and frequent visiting friends to sing on it or contribute other silly vocal exclamations. 1003 was our room number in NYU’s Third North residence hall on 3rd ave. between 11th and 12th streets. Greatest location, particularly appreciated in retrospect.

And yes, my roommate Conor really confused the Empire State Building with the Statue of Liberty. Really. How do you do that?

Some lines of verse from the inimitable Jonathan Mann, the associated song & video, and a picture he just posted with a caption alluding the song. He’s such a good songwriter, and given his “Song A Day” project, naturally prolific in volume and breadth of subject manner. I had the pleasure of watching him work in the summer of ‘11 and even added a keyboard line or two to a few songs as well as some of my characteristically bad singing. (see the link in this blog’s description)

Everybody dies alone,

But the consequences of this might slightly overblown—

Modern science doesn’t know, and religion just forget it,

No one knows where you go when breathe your final breath. It means:

No one knows where you go,

Could be a big empty room

OR A LOUD CROWDED ROCK SHOW!!!!

You die alone, oh yes

But a second after that is anybody’s guess…..

I hate being alone

I hate being alone

I hate being alone

Oh, I hate bein’ alone.

jonathanmann:

Everybody Dies Alone http://instagr.am/p/JcaD7IkGlv/

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I had the great pleasure of working with The Spinto Band and Jonathan Mann on this one. It was supposed to be a birthday song for Maru, but alas the chain email telling us it would Maru’s birthday had misinformation! Who would have thought a chain email wasn’t giving proper facts…..

This is a rock opera written by two great musical talents who I have had the great pleasure to meet and work with on a couple of occasions. Thomas Hughes is of the perennially awesome Spinto Band, and Jonathan Mann is the always inspirational “Song A Day Man” who posts an original song every single day to YouTube. The two of these oft-times funny but always seriously talented fellahs went to college together, and wrote & starred in this musical about a great war between the Nympho Leprechauns and the Fascist Unicorns. Let the symbolism speak to you as it will…. I can think of more than a few possible connotations, specifically given the flag designs that are visible in the beginning and throughout. Oh, and beyond any political/social/whatever message, the songs are really, really good. The sort of Act 1 finale song, if there were two acts, “ON OUR WAY,” is actually on my iPod’s running playlist. It’s that get-up-and-go catchy. 

*** THE STARS SHINE / OUR PLANET’S / FAR AWAY / …. COME ON LET’S GO!! *** 

nympholeprechaun:

The Last Nympho Leprechaun