In The Belly of a Whale

1. Whiffle Bat Waffle (5.5M)
The kick-off, heavy guitar, psychoriff groove. Also, an experiment in altering the way a listener hears change in an unchanging repetitive motif - by tempo incongruities - purely illusion. The lyrics reflect my sentiment for a lame "flaw" suit.

2. Flocks Fright And Leather Things In Flight (2.9M)
This thing is about internet kooks, and their (not "they're") love of bandwagon for causes only they seem to care about.

3. Heckled Shakers Gnashing Breakers Gladly (3.9M)
A banjo-flamenco hambone goulash.

4. Infirm Group-Soul Breadsticks (6.9M)
This piece was composed for three guitars and three theremins. Performance requires a rather pompous sextet, three 110VAC outlets, and three armless stools.

5. OBE in the LBC (2.7M)
The name, which possesses no relationship to the music, celebrates a recent visit to Long Beach. I may have survived the adventure due to an accompanying and perpetual out-of-body experience. Although, a look at the hand-written score would suggest, by the absence of any accidentals, to be founded in the key of C, there was no apparent key signature in mind at the time of its inception - and none should be implied.

6. Smokestack Lightnins* (4.5M)
Apologies to Howlin' Wolf, as there really is no reason to cover a song what can never be improved upon. That said, I simply arranged and played it in my own way.

7. Velvet Throat Coat Threw the Sun from the Sky (5.1M)
A little rant about a doom-and-gloom talkradio show host. For the musical part, I emulated the structure of his opening bumper music, and then rearranged it beyond recognition. It even sounds better than the original, because it's completely different.

8. Lev and Clara and Frank (2.1M)
An homage to: "Lev" Termin - inventor of the theremin, "Clara" Rockmore - the theremin's greatest virtuoso, and "Frank" Zappa - one of the great 20th century composers.

9. Windows Crushed My Axe (5.2M)
May refer to a well-known computer operating system I recently heard described as, "Ten pounds of shit stuffed in a one-pound bag." I would have to concur 100% with that credentialed statement.

10. Bojo Jolie Toejuice Hoedown (4.5M)
A song about beaujolais, or rather, a very beautiful woman, named "Bojo Jolie," crushing grapes underfoot to make this fruity wine, while a crowd gathers for either the finished product, or the girl - difficult to tell. And, what the hell, if Alan Parsons can do a song about beaujolais...