Treehouse
Sunday, September 21st, 2008Inspired by Brutalist architecture, here is a Lullaby for Stalin: “Treehouse“
I never intended to record this song — the lyrics were tosed off on a lark ten years ago — but due to a “write a children’s song about bugs” challenge over on Metafilter, I wrote some new music and whipped this together in a few hours.
That’s the fastest I’ve ever recorded a song, I think, and it’s made me think about the value of stripping down the arrangements and actually getting things done.
Autoharp, drum machine (pitch-shifted or distorted or something, I think), and 4 vocal tracks, all recorded with the Copperphone.