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Queer songs. No gender. Unapologetic people-pleaser. Public servant. jacobearl.bandcamp.com
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I was going to continue with Tigers' title track, but I prefer the version on Twenty Tigers. I released this anniversary ed. in 2022, wherein I reimagined some of the originals. On Tigers, the title track is actually two parts/songs, but here I put it back together, and sing it in a lower register.

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Many of the songs from the Tigers / Slumber sessions were made up ad hoc. The song is being born as you hear it recorded. Eye is a good example. No beats, just shimmering guitar layers. I didn't even pre-write the lyrics. Nothing was pre-planned. Of all my songs, this is perhaps my most shoegaze-y.

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The original version of the song Slumber appears not on the B-side album of the same name, but instead made the cut to my official debut Tigers. It's a choppy, screwy mix of guitar, sampled beats, and pitch-shifted vox. It's a true story about making a mixed CD for someone and going for a sleepover.

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As a teen I was a big fan of Roger Zelazny, who wrote a novella "24 Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai", in which the protagonist's journey relate to Hokusai's prints. It inspired me to write a song using the title as a metaphor for a dissolving memory. A quiet, understated intro to my first solo album.

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Tigers was my first official solo album, released May 09th, 2002. I recorded it in my downtown bedroom (first time using a DAW) with one electric guitar and two mics; 30 tracks that became Slumber/Tigers. I originally composed Gills on acoustic but it became one of my first songs with a synth beat.

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Midnite on the Lake was one of the first songs I recorded myself, under the moniker littlegods. It was 1999; I had a Tascam Portastudio and a Roland drum machine. I had to bounce tracks. I put the original mix up on mp3 dot com in 2000. Later I remixed the song digitally and added instrumentation.

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Back to 2001 / Slumber again. Concorde is a messy track. No click/tempo control, and you can hear a lot of floor noise almost overpowering the vox and guitar. Still, I love the mood and sentiment of this song, and it might be my first use of VSTs, with the sorta organ-like sound filling the low-end.

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Still jumping around time-wise to 2021 cuz today I want to celebrate the 3rd bday of my 42nd album, Silly Little Sacrifices. One of my best. The first song, Sway, is one of my all-time favs. I wrote it for myself to accept and embrace change and faith, and go with the flow. Hard things for me to do.

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One year ago today, on December 29th, 2023, I released ChemicalZ, my 52nd album. It's a dark and distorted album about the cosmic physical and mental stuff that makes us all up. Exposed Icon is a stark juxtaposition; a pop song with witty lyricism about wanting to be famous but unknown all at once.

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I'm jumping ahead chronologically to 2005, since today is the 19th anniversary of my album, Because We Didn't Look Back. The first track is Kaleidoscope, which I think I started writing as early as 2002. I struggled with this album production-wise. Also that it was about an unraveling relationship.

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Slumber was my first collection of B-sides; the leftovers from what would become my first official solo album, Tigers. Good Morning was one of my first experimental self-produced songs with beats and samples. I recorded the bass on a Realistic cassette player, and the rest of the song on computer.

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Like Naïve, The Price was one of the first songs I wrote specifically on the bass. It's also one of my earliest compositions with vocal harmonies. Ozzy and I tracked the drum and bass. The next day I sang my verses, Wil tracked guitar, Tovy on piano, then Wil and Tovy sang the choruses. Still a fav.

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Of all the Post.Script songs, The Rapture took the longest to write, and is the saddest. I was processing so much grief from a break-up. I wrote it on acoustic, which never appeared in the recording. I spent time arranging it with my friend Graham. In the end it was one live take and a vocal double.

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I wrote Worlds Apart 25 years ago; the first solo song for The Post.Script Project. Also, my first real break-up song. Recorded in four live floor takes: me on bass and vox with Ozzy on drums; me doing the second vocal take; Ozzy on the baritone guitar; and Jenn singing the refrain. It's a banger.

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The Post.Script Project was my first unofficial solo effort. Not really solo, since all my bandmates plus others helped. But I wrote the songs for me and I sang most of them, including Hindsights & Shortfalls. Recorded on tape in a studio in 2000, live off the floor one take, with one vocal overdub.

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Sweet Dream was one of many collabs between me and my friend Wil, who was the singer/guitarist of Divinity Burst. Wil came up with guitar arrangement, and I added the bass and two distinct sets of lyrics, juxtaposing art and relationships. Wil sang the main lyrics and I did the whisper backing vox.

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When I wrote Sleepwalkers, I was experimenting a lot with my capo. I remember originally composing it on acoustic, capoed on the 5th fret. I was also angry and disenfranchised, struggling with wanting to make art while dealing with workaday life and depression, which really came out in the lyrics.

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The title track, Tranced (You Never Were), was one of a small handful of songs I wrote for my long-distance girlfriend in '98-'99. I was so proud of this song. I wrote it on the acoustic guitar and then came up with the bass line. I remember telling my gf how chuffed I was about the bass line.

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I wrote Ocean Park in March 1998, inspired by Diebenkorn's Ocean Park no. 59. We recorded a demo on cassette. I submitted it as an art history essay in first year uni. I got an A. We recorded two studio versions, in '98 and '99. This is the '99 version. Listen close, I sing backup vox on the bridge.

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Naïve is the first song I wrote specifically on the bass guitar. You can tell, because the bass line really drives the rest of the arrangement. I wrote the lyrics 26 years ago, on November 25th, 1998. I know this because I still have the sketchbook I wrote them in. The bass line followed soon after.

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I've been writing and recording songs for something like 30 years now. I started off crafting lyrics, then eventually learned to play some instruments. This is one of the first songs I wrote that became polished enough to get recorded and released on CD (with my former band) in 1999. I played bass.

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