beyond the valley of odd

There’s a new jam with my words and voices and Peter Ball’s music online at reverbnation.com/apartmentone called IOUMESMITH.

This is a limited time offer – right now it’s the first song on the home page, but Peter makes and adds new music constantly; so if it’s not there, click on “See all 194 songs” and search for it in the master list.

Peter (aka Apartment One) makes the music, edits, mixes, records, and engineers while I stand at the mic not knowing what he’s going to play as I read recite twist and growl my words to his flow.

Style-wise I’m the mutant bastard offspring of a ménage à trois of poetry, song, and performance — this particular jam is sort of psycho werewolf rock, with a lot of moon howls on the side tracks.

I wrote the words January 1st, we jammed this afternoon the 6th, and he put it online tonight. I love this cyber highway we ride.

The lyrics.

I O U I O Me

They say there’s closure in the hole
but until I take that crossing
there’s cobwebs in the closet
with catching flies their goal,
fine print’s corrosive hint
of lies within the towers,
power’s hour decaying slow
with the whole thing going sour.

Cobwebs in the closet
No closure in the hole
Past sins must first be offset
before we slave our soul

So please soul say it isn’t so
provide a more positive posit
give heart a chance to sing
eye a ruddy red rose
ayes much deeper development.
For as my wife disclosed
“Now is the flower.”
We each our own self owe.

Cobwebs in the closet
No closure in the hole
Past sins must first be offset
before we enslave our soul

There are 15 Apartment One / Smith jams online from the past 8 years (each title ending in smith), some of them from Beyond the Valley of Odd.