|  | 2005 Nothing's Perfect Records Jonathan Epstein delivers outtakes and long lost sessions on the Oddcast Podcast. | |
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The Yawns perform the Quinn W Shagbark composition, Farms Made of Stone. |
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Musky Adventures presents Look What's Coming to Dinner -- their entry in the 2007 48 Hour Film Project. The Yawns provided the score. CAUTION: There is particularly course language. |
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The Yawns took part in the RPM Challenge -- a challenge to produce an entire album during the month of February. Recorded during two very cold weeks in February, we present Two Days in the Dark. |
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Once upon a time, Tom Hanks had a brother. And a wife. And a gun. For recording nerds, this was recorded using the M/S stereo recording technique. |
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In January 2004, Awnings for Eyelids spent two days at Jack Straw Productions in Seattle recording an album. A lot of music was recorded, so not everything made the cut, but here are the cream of the leftovers from those sessions. Chris Mueller sits in on drums on a couple of these. |
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Nothing's Perfect Records presents a whole pile of random stuff from the archives. |
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JE composed and recorded the score for a film short entitled . As part of the 48 Hour Film Festival, JE had less than 48 hours to accomplish this. While the film runs only 4 minutes, there was plenty of material recorded.
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Recent recordings courtesy of The Yawns. Look for some of these to appear on their upcoming release. -- Chet Baker, Meet the Yawns, On the Phone, Respects |
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Helper Monkey's latest recording efforts, captured on this short, but sweet E.P. -- (1) Instrumental, (2) Le Car, (3) Heaven, (4) What You Could Do, (5) 15 Minutes (without vocals) |
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Jonathan plays a few songs from the Helper Monkey songbook and more -- What You Could Do, This One, Dysfunctional Toe, Lost Again, Le Car, Heaven, Scott's Instrumental, Every Aspect of You, Friend of the Devil, Pig in a Pen, Geedy Gee |
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Recorded in 1996, remastered in 2004, and re-remastered again just last night, The Prototype was Jonathan's first successful attempt at creating an album length suite of songs. This was recorded almost in entirely in a basement cum bedroom in Belchertown, MA. |
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On 9/10/2005, Jonathan played acoustic with a number of Seattle friends. Here are some choice highlights from the show. Featuring Shawn Oram on upright, Chad Benson on mandolin, Eric Webb and Jenelle on vocals. |
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Jonathan plays some recent studio experiments and song sketches as work commences on the next album. |
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Jonathan plays a few alternate mixes and one lost track from the Scenes from Tiny Town sessions. |
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A musically driven journey chronicling the evolution of Seattle experimental rock band, Awnings for Eyelids, from 2002 to 2005. |
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Recorded on tour with The Crispin Glover. This song was written by Jon Brion and used in I Heart Huckabees. Jon was very much the inspiration behind The Crispin Glover. This version was recorded on stage at The Starlight Theater in Fort Collins, CO, on Valentine's Day 2005. |
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Here's a little bit more of Day and a Half than what appears on the SFTT. This song was inspired by and is dedicated to the gentleman busking daily in the Court House Metro station. |
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A track from very early during the Scenes from Tiny Town sessions that
unfortunately found it's way to the Tiny Town floor when it came time to mix and
sequence the album. This was inspired by an ornery landowner in Washington,
DC. |
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An early experiment during pre-production for the next JE release. The Thumb
Synthesizer is featured prominently throughout. |
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