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| The lead off track from the Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes CD, this is a hip jazz combo tune with beatnik esque overdub. Very hip, but heavily bop influenced. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| A poem about wasted time set to the melodious strains of disco-era, feel-good porno music. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Hip techno backing combined with bar-inspired poem about a supermodel walking into a dive. Super cool vibe. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Hyper insane, Bach-Driven-Mad synth backs this fever dream of a poem. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Improvised piano along with spoken word poetry from "A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes." A shooter's worst nightmare come true; lose the girl because the girl is there. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| "Some of These Days" accompanies this poem about what its like to play stride piano. From the Cacophony Spoken Word CD. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Poem by Seth Barkan, Song by Shelton Brooks (1910) |
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| Symphonic Synth with dixie coda backs a poem describing the madness of Music Theory at 6 AM. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Star Wars-bar sounding swing tune played on synthesizers accompanies the terse and intense reading of this poem. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Not quite the boring and featureless soft-core smooth jazz that makes people fall asleep, yet not quite hardcore bop, either. This tune is perfect music to kickback and enjoy your favorite post-work cocktail. |
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Credits: Kickback Jazz by Seth Barkan |
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| A beautiful improvised synth tune with a very "classical" theme and some variations on it. |
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Credits: Theme And Jazz Variation, By Seth Barkan |
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| Growing up is a difficult, often painful process. Especially when you're nine months late with your rent and are suddenly thrown out into the world, naked and penniless, wondering what to do next. Another awesome original tune from Larry London. |
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Credits: Belly Rent, Written and Performed By Jake T. Smigel |
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| Nicodemus Strangelove returns with a nice, new old-time stride tune that tells the story of a fictional dance craze from New Orleans. Good stride work, decent vocals, and an amusing lyric make this song an enjoyable listen to any fan of old time music. It will transform your life, rearrange your closet, and make you feel safe in the knowledge that stride tunes are still being written. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Sidestep And Stomp, Words and Music by Seth Barkan |
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| Larry London's version of this classic blues tune. This is an awesome take. |
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Credits: Willie the Weeper (G.V. Rymal, 1920) As Performed by Jakob Smigel |
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| The Official Song Of Kansas
Larry London (Vocals, Acoustic Guitar) and Nicodemus (synth) perform this traditional favorite from the Dover Song Treasury as a revamped blues number. |
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Credits: Home On The Range (D. Guion), Performed by Jake T. Smigel, and Seth Barkan |
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| The latest original stride tune from the deranged mind of Nicodemus Strangelove, "Tired and Lonely" is a simple, short, and, ultimately, spiritually enlightening (in a very insipid sort of way) piece that will keep your toe tapping hours after the song has stopped (TWHI is not liable for any accident or injury this might cause.) Experience this awe-inspiring jewel of penultimate musical glory and human achievement or be laughed at by your friends and neighbors. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Sad And Tired And Lonely (A Ragtime Opus About Nothing) by Seth Barkan |
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| A gritty, post modern sonic soup underwritten by urban desperation. |
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Credits: Pretty Things Take Up Space, Written and Performed by Jake T. Smigel |
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| Larry London's newest original tune, Cornflour Blues is a very catchy and inventive number with one of the coolest B sections I've ever heard in a blues. Highly recommended and most gratifying. |
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Credits: Cornflour Blues, by Jake Smigel |
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| The classic fingerbuster written by Decosta for the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917, played and sung here by Nicodemus Strangelove. Don't let the slow intro fool you; this one's a burner. A must listen for stride and traditional jazz fans. |
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Credits: The Tiger Rag (H. Decosta, 1917) performed by Seth Barkan |
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| An original composition meant to accurately simulate smashing your head into a wall of emotion, "Broken Monday Blues" is a manic, strange, and thought provoking little tune. |
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Credits: Broken Monday Blues, Written and Performed by Seth Barkan |
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| Another Larry London original, "Come On" is a very traditional blues with a Freddy Green style bridge (psuedo solo through chromatic chording... very well done and pleasant to listen to). Enjoy this mellow yet strangely excited ephemeral bit of existentialistic sentiment from TWHI. -Nicodemua |
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Credits: Come On, Performed and Written by Jake Smigel |
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| An interesting novelty tune with a catchy melody line, bizzare instrumentation, utterly comic drums, and one of the most insane breakdowns ever. Proving, once again, that form merged with lunacy yieds utter madness, Mad Dixie Scherzo will force you to reconsider how funny a musical joke can really be. Trust us; it will change your whole day. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Mad Dixie Scherzo written and performed by Seth Barkan |
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| The ultimate in both total insanity and musicallity from Larry London, Freeway is a crazed and mellow lunatic last dance on the back of the great American lizard; definately a must for fans of apathy or good music. |
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Credits: Freeway, by Jake Smigel |
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| "Of all the many thousands of songs about picnics, this one's my favorite.."-Nicodemus, from intro of this recording. The good-time tune of 1905; 1st half played and sung at a moderate bounce with an utterly smoking second half. Also featuring the first verse from the original. A great way to kill an afternoon, "Nellie" on repeat is a sure-fire way to enjoy any rainy day while losing your mind. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie (1905) by Harry Von Tilzer |
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| An original rag for the sad luck gang, The Interval Rag is the utterly mad fruition of an overdose of ear training in theory class. Its the perfect up tempo tune for the theoretician inside us all, and a must for fans of Ragtime. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: The Interval Rag, By Seth Barkan |
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| A very mellow tune with a cute lyric written in a standard form written for piano and voice. |
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Credits: "Live In My Living Room" written and performed by Seth Barkan |
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| A rollicking little stride piece, with decent vocals and alright lyrics. Pleasant to listen to, and difficult to find unenjoyable, You Never Give Me Flowers will reaffirm your faith that the your life is worth living. I promise. Really. Words and Music by Seth Barkan, based on a poem by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.Another Fine Release From TWHI |
CD: Stride For Lunatics
Label: TWHI
Credits: You Never Give Me Flowers, By Seth Barkan, Based On A Poem by Katie Fitzpatrick |
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| The psychotic trip-out love child of Larry London, Cat Piss is a moving ode to a girl's dress. The ultimate sublimation of madness and insanity, Cat Piss will make you feel less alone in a world of petty failures and uncertainty. We promise. -The mngmnt. |
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Credits: Cat Piss, as Composed and Performed by Jake Smigel |
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| Joekemon breaks out like an asylum escapee in this obscenely strange acid trip into the shadowy corridor's of Joe's twisted consciousness. You'll scream; you'll die; you'll beg for more after listening to this fine recording. –Nicodemus |
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Credits: Hail Santa, Written and Performed by Joe Kendal |
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| A super insane little number I tossed off recently in the bathroom of Gare Du Norde, "The Modern World" is a short stride piece that will destroy your mind and rape your sanity. Enjoy. |
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Credits: The Modern World, By Seth Barkan |
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| A really cool, semi-sinister, creeping-stride-swing tune in Cm on a tremolo organ. |
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Credits: Organ Bop written and performed by Seth Barkan |
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| This is a little minor theme I wrote. It's a very cute little minor novelty tune that doesn't ever really resolve while still making the listener feel like it's going to. It's a good recording, and (though hardcore stride fans won't find a lot to like here) there is a stride chorus. Enjoy. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Doktor N's Romp, By Seth Barkan |
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| "Waiting" is a simple bop composition that is sure to summon a deep sense of melancholy and lethargic despair in all who listen to it. There's some cute stride in it and a few moments of near fatal mistakes. If you need a little something depressing in your life; "Waiting" is the tune for you. -Nic. |
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Credits: Waiting by Seth Barkan |
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| Monster groove with syoth bass and not a care in the world; fat funk a chunk a ching chang... muhaahaha... he's hungry. |
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Credits: Phat A_|b3rt |
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| A mellow tune with a nice melody line and god guitar comping. Trying to create a less self-conscious sort of newness, this tune borrows from AC Jobim's work, and takes a page or two out of Modest Mouse's handbook for good experimental feeling. |
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Credits: It Wasn't The Placebo by Seth Barkan |
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| Another hungover awakening on the suborbital colony. You awake, head pounding, to the spiraling view outside your cabin window. You call the local operator, you sit on the side of the bed staring at the floor; she politely chimes "The time on Mars is..." |
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Credits: The Time On Mars Is... By Seth Barkan |
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| A symph-technotic rondo. Energetic with a sense of anticipation and perpetual completion at once. Cohesive units climb in patterns, stacking roughly or with great precision into a sonic stagger rhythm until they reach a satisfied finality. |
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Credits: The Modern World Wins The Race by Seth Barkan |
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| A stark, dark soundscape with warm washes of rising waves. |
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Credits: The Blank White Bell, by Seth Barkan |
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| An experimental piece of programmatic madness that moves well, feels good, and fills the listener with the sense that Mongo really wants to go boom. |
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Credits: Mongo Went Boom by Nicodemus Strangelove |
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| Creepy Halloween organ music in the spirit of Toccata and Fugue; hear Nicodemus bust his chops on an immense church organ while shadows grow deep and long as the witching hour approaches. Happy Halloween from TWHI. |
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Credits: Halloween Toccata By Seth Barkan |
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| "Its The End Of The World" is a whimsical techno tune depicting the effect of a forty megaton bomb on your home town. Novel and fun, "Its The End Of The World" is the perfect background music for your own electronic apocalypse. -Nicodemus |
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Credits: Its The End Of The World, Recorded and Engineered by Seth Barkan |
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| The traditional New Year's favorite played as a stride tune; Happy Holidays From TWHI. |
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Credits: Auld Lang Syne, Public Domain from "The American Song Treasury", 1793, Music By George Thompson, Words By Robert Burns |
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| Broken acoustic guitars play a plaintive and disjointed air, providing a reflective mood for this poem about Theory students smoking cigarettes in the winter. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Grand psuedo-chamber music for piano, cello, harp, and strings written for the Cacophony Spoken Word CD. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Music by Seth Barkan |
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| Poem about the horrors of ear training set to a progressively evil backing track. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| A poem about my theory teacher from college set to a theme I wrote during those days. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Deep synth backs a poem about time in motion. Orchestral and moody. From "A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes." |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| An improvised piano track accompanies this sad poem. This track was featured on WRVG Georgetown's SoUP radio show. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Eerie and moody swing ensemble with banjo, accordion, bass, and guitar, echoe the semi-dark sentiment of the beginning of this poem, followed by hot stride piano that aims to please. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Rabid organ and bass tune accompany this poem about a club pianist driven mad. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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| Poem about losing your mind while working on a composition in a practice room with music meant to simulate the experience related in the poem. |
CD: A Cacophony of Near-Fatal Mistakes
Label: TWHI
Credits: Words and Music by Seth Flynn Barkan |
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