Web Exclusives
Keep your eye on this section of the site, updated with exclusive mp3s of new demos, live recordings, and never-to-be-released tracks when time permits and inspiration hits.
Podcasts / Interviews
NEW – Interview with Amy Atkins from Boise Weekly (7/28/10)
In this, the Boise Weekly’s first foray to podcasting, I chat with the ever-congenial Ms. Amy Atkins about the latest happenings in RJM-land, including our March 2010 residency at Seattle’s Hard Rock Cafe, the June 8 Round show with Ken Stringfellow & Rebecca Gates, and our new bassist, Matthew Cunningham.
Live mp3s
NEW – Lying Out Loud (live at the Round 61, 6/8/10) - unreleased song!
NEW – Such an Easy Thing (live at the Round 61, 6/8/10)
Recorded live at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center on June 8, 2010, these stripped-down, spontaneous live versions feature the talents of Ken Stringfellow (The Posies), Rebecca Gates (The Spinanes), and Patrick Porter (RJM/Explone). Get these songs and more, absolutely free, by subscribing to The Round’s podcast on iTunes.
Philistine (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Blessed Are (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Deseret News (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Kissing Cousin (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Four live recordings from our September 25, 2007 show at the Crocodile Café, including a not-too-shabby version of then-new tune “Deseret News”. All sounds captured by legendary Croc soundman Jim Anderson. Thanks, Jim!
Demos and Rarities
Diana
This song was birthed way back in 2004 (could’ve been 2003, even). It started life as a really crappy four-track recording with a really great keyboard sound (as close as a Casio gets to a Mellotron). The basic tracks were then re-recorded thusly, in the basement of Jeff & Sharon Lujin in Independence, MO, in the summer of 2004. Soon after, recording continued in my apartment’s spare bedroom, and then Steve Turner’s living room. The song was then mysteriously abandoned, while Christian and I packed up and moved to Seattle. It was untouched for the entirety of 2005.
I recorded the vocals and fuzz bass in April 2006. Everything else was recorded in 2004. Jeff Lujin is on the drums.
True Currency (2006 version)
A new version of an old favorite, recorded in much the same manner as the Starboard Meets the Sound EP, for my friend Steve Turner’s upcoming short film Mere Sentience. Dig!
Jesus’ House (demo)
A real weeper…the first four-track dispatch of 2006. Strings/organ courtesy of an old Roland RS-09 (thanks, Jay!). This version appears on Volume 5 of Levi Fuller’s lovely Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly. A drastically different version appears on our forthcoming full-length, Hello, Old Cloud.
Hello, Old Cloud Studio Journal
Check out my exhaustive/exhausting Studio Journal from the Hello, Old Cloud sessions at Studio Litho and Chroma Sound in late 2006/early 2007. Herein you’ll find all of the details you ever wanted about the making of our first album as a real band: wicked gear lists, special guests, hairbrained ideas made reality, and best of all, inter-band drama a la that terrible Metallica movie. Only we couldn’t afford a shrink, so we had to settle our arguments with fisticuffs. Bring it, Porter!
All words and music copyright 2005-2010, registered, by Lincoln Barr (Swallow Swords Music/ASCAP).
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