The End of it All, a Last-Ditch Effort in December

look


I threw together one last song for this year. The project may have failed, but at least it was more or less completed. Sort of. I barely had time to complete even this one song this month, BECAUSE - - - - - - I have been very busy desperately trying to complete the new BEWARE! the Other Head of Science album which will be available to you SOONER THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. SO there's that.



It has been a weird year, musically as well as in every other way. And life is only getting weirder. I will probably not have new stuff on here quite as often in the coming year, BUT, I do have some PLANS. PLANS PLANS.



This month's song is called 'look.' It has no words. But it has voice. Over and over again.




Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

P.S.

I forgot to mention, I will be playing a show at Rockhill Bakery on Saturday, in Glens Falls.

November sort of?

Apologies


Dear imaginary people,

I was too busy to record anything in November, or even to tell you about it until now. I am a failure. I will try harder next time.


To try to make it up to me, I have put together a collection of 6 instrumental pieces which I recorded in 2002. Please enjoy.




Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

New for October

Other Fish


I only managed to finish one song this month. I have been busy. I have no good excuse. I had a big plan involving halloween being the time you get to pretend to be other people, and so doing a cover album involving all kinds of good and ridiculous stuff, but I just didn't have time to finish it. But - - - - - - I did finish this one song, that I think is pretty good. It is a no-frills, me and a keyboard plus a small instrumental interlude type thing. I enjoy it, and I hope you will to.

Incidentally, it is part 2, there was a part 1, it is not really finished, and I am not sure if it ever will be. But maybe. It is nothing like part 1, in that it is in no way simple or no-frills, involves a lot of programming and rhythmic changes and stuff, which is probably why it didn't get finished. Also I couldn't get some of the words to fit right. But anyways, that is the story behind that, in case you needed to kill some time.




Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

Do the Fright Thing Vol. 2 Comp

I have a new track on Shane (Ghoul Poon)'s second-annual comp "Do the Fright Thing," and you should go get it. My song is called "Apart at the Seams," and is accompanied by many tracks by many friends and many people I haven't met yet or maybe don't know that I have met. It is free, and you should go get it! I think it is also bundled with the comp from last year, which had a lot of great stuff on it too!



Download it HERE

Track Listing

1. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Intro)

2. Machete - Theory of Witches

3. Todd is New Each Moment - Sparkle Mag

4. Oddy Gato - Voodoo

5. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Interlude)

6. Ghoul Poon - Heartless Vampire

7. Nursing Home Discoveries - Apart at the Seams

8. Eraserheadz - Beautiful Funeral

9. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Interlude)

10. Grady Stiles - Cut (Up Some Sheets)

11. Barons in the Attic - Off with His Head

12. Charlie Don't Surf - American Lobotomy

13. Black Andy - I Go Out at Night

14. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Interlude)

15. Pete Pluto & GM - Head Crack

16. The Boston Celtics - Lights Off

17. Tobiaz - Touch the Sky

18. Asa Morris - Return of the Ghost

19. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Interlude)

20. Oz Alone - Candybars and Razorblades

21. Skeletons in the Piano - Sarcoughagus

22. Grab Ass Cowboys - Power Slut

23. Motel - Barnabas Collins

24. Lofi Lobo - WDIE FM (Outro)

New Stuff From the Month of September

goodbye



This month's thing is only four tracks. Just not enough time in the day. But, they are generally of a higher quality than some of the stuff last month, so that is some justification I hope. Listen and enjoy, please, if you will.


Track Listing

1. Real to me

2. of all the places we've been

3. goodbye goodbye

4. watch her go






Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

Hey Germany

A review of the b3nson collective's recent compilation (on which I appear, both as Nursing Home Discoveries, and on the BEWARE! track "Phase 3: Profits") that appeared on a German blog today:



http://dasklienicum.blogspot.com/2009/09/neue-tone-673-b3nson-recording-company.html



According to google translator, it says something like this:



new tones (673): a recording company b3nson
hot! damned! Who here does not access, has missed the last exit without having to refuel. a pity, stuck here on the roadside, while all the other whiz past. The b3nson recording company provides through a free download compilation called "a family affair b3nson" insight into the in-house program. and definitely worth the listen. I told you the best tracks filtered, the rest will find here. experienced the wildest concoctions from texmex, country, hiphop, gospel, folk, gypsy and so on. and who needs more of it, which is not only among the current releases the other one or two album-download-link.

The Hoborchestra - Beatrice IV

Sgt Dunbar & the Hobo Banned - Synchronized Swimming

Barons In The Attic - My Old Soul

Nursing Home Discoveries - Getting Warmer

The Boston Celtics - Street Sleepers



I think that is good?

It is getting close to the end of the month, and I am scrambling to finish anything as usual. But come the first, new stuff will appear here.


In the meantime, A B3NSON FAMILY AFFAIR is still available, for FREE, at b3nson.net!

A B3nson Family Affair

The B3nson Collective was asked to put together one of the stages at Albany's LarkFest this year. We'll be playing the Townsend Park Stage from 11a.m. to 4p.m. this Saturday, September 19th.


Along with this performance, we decided to put out a new compilation to introduce the people of Albany (and anywhere else) to the collective's acts. This compilation is available for FREE at http://b3nson.net/larkfest/. Nursing Home Discoveries has a brand new recording on it, along with many, many, many other really incredibly great things you should go listen to.

Our Story Thus Far

Since January, I have been attempting to release one new record a month. This has resulted in a diverse collection of stuff, many different sounds, many different musical ideas, and many different levels of quality. Obviously I know not all of you who may see this have taken the time to listen carefully to every single one of the 56 songs that have been released to date, so I thought I would put together something to catch people up.

The following file is a collection of ten songs from the albums released from January to August, a sort of highlights reel I guess. They are mostly taken from the more traditionally-structured songs, and are mostly un-edited from the version in which they appeared previously (the one exception being the songs from Der Tulip, which have simply been cut from the original 10-minute file). So there you have it. Download the following file to hear a few of the better songs from this year so far.

Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

And if before or after this, you need to know where to start with the actual albums, start with March, please.

August

Canadian Quarter



This month, I have six tracks in a collection called "Canadian Quarter." There are two old things I found lying around in there. One, "Honey Bunch," is something I found on a sheet of paper while going through a box of records I haven't looked at in years. I wrote it at the same time as I took on the Nursing Home Discoveries name, many years ago. I had been asked to play a show by myself, which I hadn't done in years, and I didn't really have any songs. So I put together some sort of synth-core weird-out kind of thing I don't know. I ended up not playing the show anyways because of technical problems. That song was the first from that. The other old one is "Old Fashioned Love," which I found in a notebook, I think from when I was living in D.C., in a box of old notebooks (I'm moving, again, which means I have been going through a lot of boxes). The rest are all new, I guess.


Track Listing

1. Setting the Mood

2. Honey Bunch

3. Canadian Quarter

4. Mosquito

5. in a bottle in a bag

6. Old Fashioned Love






Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

New Album For JULY

For E.S.T.



My new album for July is called "For E.S.T." Tried a few new things with this one: there are no sequences on this, and it is the first time I have really seriously done anything with sampling things from other places, I think. That's all I can think of, but maybe there are other things.


Track Listing

1. Dean-O Neckyslick

2. Family Ties

3. Deeno Baldineck

4. Don't Come Back

5. Dino Popsineck

6. Stuck

7. Deno Slowsticks

8. Dean O. Flexineck





Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

NEW ALBUM FOR JUNE

der tulip, you're not so clever are you


Well, not really so much of an album. It is one track, ten minutes long. Sort of a single, I guess, maybe. Not really. This piece, I think, really should probably ONLY be listened to in headphones, maybe. Good headphones, preferably, and loud. Please listen and enjoy. My sister would have when she was seven or eight. The older one.




Download MP3 in .zip format HERE

New Album for May

I am turning this in late. But it was done on time. Really it was. I didn't have time to post it, what with moving continents and all. Anyways, here it is. Listen and enjoy. But not too much. Enjoying.


WAITING not WORKING

1. S26

2. SEE

3. Gordon

4. Wasted *in Space

5. Made

6. ydu

7. S45

8. NNRO


Download MP3s in .zip format HERE

NEW ALBUM FOR APRIL

you are what i ate


My new album for the month of April, 'you are what i ate,' is here. It is eight songs about stuff. I hope you like it.

Please please please keep in mind that this is intended, at least on the first listen, to be heard the whole way through and wearing headphones.

Tack listing:
1. Cold Storage

2. Morning Of

3. Down the Drain

4. indream

5. oihh

6. Are you there?

7. am i driving?

8. Come to Visit



Download MP3s in .zip format HERE

demo

I am farther behind on my April album than I would like to be at the moment, due to some false starts, second-​guessing,​ and throwing too many things out.



But while I sort all of that out, I thought I would provide something to you fine people.



So I just wrote a new song just now.



And.



I recorded a demo of the first verse and chorus, and put it on www.myspace.com/nursinghomediscoveries






I am not sure what I am going to do with the song yet, it may end up sounding nothing like this



but please listen and tell me what you think!



it is called 'cold storage' and should be the first song there

RPM Press

My RPM album was included in a Times Union review of Capital District RPM albums published on Friday, March 20th.



"Nursing Home Discoveries "Songs to Make You Uncomfortable": Beware! The Other Head of Science's Kamran Parwana made this using common household implements, since he's currently living in Kabul, Afghanistan, and has no regular instruments. What he came up with was a space-age sandstorm bounce infused with 808 psychedelic chaos. http://www.kparwana.com"

(written by Danielle Furfaro)



Read the whole article, including reviews of many friends and some people I don't know too much about YET, at the following link:
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=781619&category=ARTS&BCCode=&newsdate=3/22/2009&TextPage=1

NEW ALBUM FOR MARCH

MARCH, the collection of five songs I recorded in the first week of March, was written in the Month of March in 2008. It was originally written as a guitar-based album, but not having a guitar here, I couldn't really do much with that, so it became something else. The first track, 'Fast Asleep,' was recorded last Fall with much help from Ryan Stewart and Richard Nolan. The rest of it was recorded in Kabul by me, again, in the first week of March 2009.

The album was sort of vaguely written as a sort of a day in the life kind of thing, reflecting on the time I had spent living in Northern Virginia and working in DC the previous year. Although not all of the incidents it references were everyday occurrences. For example, while struggling to get out of bed and getting stuck in traffic for hours and hours were part of my everyday life, being hassled by the Capitol police was only a once in a while sort of thing. But you get the idea. It all fits in somehow.


Anyway, I would encourage you to listen to the whole thing straight through (it's pretty short) wearing headphones. That is what it is best for. Please enjoy.


Cover art by Portia and myself.



MARCH

1. Fast Asleep

2. Traffic Jam

3. Half an Hour There, Just as Long to Get Back

4. Rush Hour Train

5. Dance With Me



Download MP3s in .zip format HERE

Demos

I'll be posting my new EP, 'March,' very soon. I am really very happy with it, and very excited for you to hear it.



In the meantime, I've posted the demos I made of the EP in March 2008 on last.fm. You can stream them HERE



The finished songs are VERY different from the demos, so I thought I would put them up for comparison. I really like the demo version of "Dance With Me," particularly, so I wanted it to be available.



Okay, please check back soon! I will have NEW STUFF for you that I REALLY hope you will like!

Almost

My new EP for March is finished. A soon as the artwork is completed, I will be posting it here. At risk of sounding vain or raising expectations, this is very possibly my favorite thing I have ever done. Maybe I should wait a night and listen to it tomorrow before I make that judgement, but I feel pretty certain about it. I am really very very excited for you to hear it.

I am probably also going to post the demos I made for it last year. They are pretty drastically different, and I would like you to have the benefit of comparison. I am very excited, which is usually not the case.

CHANGES

I have decided to try out making the front page of this site with this Blogger thing. It may have some advantages. Maybe I will keep it, maybe I will not.

My new album for March is almost done already. I am excited for people to hear it. I may get sidetracked before I can finish the last two songs, but we'll see.

NEW ALBUM FOR FEBRUARY

In February of 2009, I completed the RPM Challenge (to write and record an album entirely in the month of February) for the second year in a row. The result:


Songs to Make you Uncomfortable


was written and recorded in my room in Kabul, Afghanistan, between the 1st and 27th of February, 2009 (mostly near the end of the month). Since I have no instruments to speak of here with me, other than a Korg Nanocontroller, the album consist entirely of Reason files, voice, jars of peppercorns and sugar, pencils hitting hot sauce jars, and digital manipulations. I both hope and believe the album lives up to its title.

I might also mention, something else I am lacking here is decent speakers. This album is very much mixed to be listened to in headphones, if at all possible.

Cover art by me and Portia.



Track listing:

1. Dusty Trails

2. Half Way Around the World

3. Save

4. If I Could

5. Dialing Rice

6. Leap Frog City

7. Sleeping

8. Get in the Trunk

9. Remember What I Said

10. I'm on Either Side



Download MP3s in .zip format HERE

NEW ALBUM FOR JANUARY

On January 1st, 2009, many of my friends were kind enough to come to my home in Schenectady to help me record an entire album in one day. The songs were all old, things I had had laying around for years. With the help of many people who gave up their entire year up to that point to make it happen, they finally have a home.

Cover photo by Portia.



Rushing Through the Best of Intentions


Track Listing:

1. Home

2. Short Worms

3. Leave the Radio (On (All Night))

4. The Future is our Secret Clubhouse

5. Rotten Fruit

6. The Only Real Love Song I Will Ever Write

7. Infection

8. Getting Warmer

9. ail Order Bride

10. Traffic Jam



Download MP3s in .zip format HERE

Live From the Electric City

We had a little party at our house in January. Some very lovely people played us some very lovely music. These little bits of it have been preserved for your enjoyment.



Live From the Electric City


Track Listing:

1. Birthdays - Part that Grows

2. Littlefoot - Trucks I Have Rode In

3. Ryan Stewart - The Gospel According to Robert Meyer 1

4. The Boston Celtics - The Flower Moon




Download MP3s in .zip format HERE