Pinkeye

Here's our latest song with François and Binesh.

I just got done reworking it...
"remixing" and "mastering" are too big words for
something so raw that we laid down in just a couple of takes.

Music and lyrics are all from Francie's tainted soul,
some snippets:

"Sail the ship with no name"
"..backwards walking in
to love dressed up as sin
the cure for your purpose"
"chasing piece of mind
will soon be left behind"

Maybe he's been listening to too much Mars Volta lately.

Francie was going for the Pink Floyd melded vocals sound.
I tried to embellish (read "bury") our voices with effects.
But we just might need a real singer.

This song is radically different from our first, Houroub which
is more of the east-west fusion i really love.

Speaking of which, i recently discovered an amazing Iranian-American
singer/songwriter. Her name is Haale. This is what the NY Times wrote about her:
"Percussionists provided driving rhythms...over which Haale's warm, supple voice unfurled like a curlicue of smoke. Her band's amplified rumble served as a reminder of the extent to which rock bands like the Doors and the Velvet Underground turned to the East for their most hypnotic efforts; here their borrowlings were reclaimed with interest."

There are numerous uncanny parallels with my Iranian-Spanish friend Atisu and our jazz-folky band during my student year of living in Toulouse, France. I'll try to dig up some of the tapes from a couple radio shows we played and post them up here for you to check out.

Ok, enough digressing, here's our latest, Pinkeye!
Let me know what you think!