Lost Albums: apocrypha

These tracks were once available on DMusic.  I canceled my subscription last year, and this entire album — caled, appropriately enough, apocrypha — vanished from the internet.  Well, now that I’ve found a new home, I’ve given these songs a new home as well: on SoundClick.  Here are twelve “missing” tracks, and where to find them.  (I’ve also linked in my original articles about each track.)

Apocrypha

1. Five of Pentacles — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
2. Astromancer — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
3. Carrying on Cranky — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
4. Watching for Falling Stars — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
5. My Own Avalon — SoundClick page, WordPress article.  (This song has been remade, and now appears as the sixth track on In Unexpected Places.)
6. La sequía — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
7. r-u-n-n-o-f-t — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
8. The Island — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
9. Tabasco Road — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
10. Dangerous Medicine — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
11. Downburst — SoundClick page, WordPress article.
12. Through the Dark Sun — SoundClick page.  (See notes below.)

About “Through the Dark Sun”

This song wasn’t actually part of the apocrypha album as it appeared on DMusic.  I guess you could consider it a lost single on a lost album.  I was playing around with a compositional concept, an entirely free composition, beginning at one point and not knowing where I would end up.  The entire song is improvised, and basically just wild.  Well, wouldn’t you know, of all the songs I used to have on DMusic, this is the one people ask about.

The 12th track used to be “Crumb”, a cover of a song by a Gainesville (Florida) band named El Robot.  They gave me permission to post it before, but I didn’t feel it would be right to post it now.  Every work I have on the internet, I am trying to publish under a Creative Commons by-sa license.  Admittedly, the version of Crumb I posted didn’t sound too much like the original — yet I didn’t write it.  Therefore I’ve got no business messing with the rights to the track; therefore I left it off.  So as far as “lost” tracks go, that one’s definitely there!

And One More!

Although it’s not technically part of the album, there was another “lost” track I added later as a single.  This song is one of my wife’s favorites:

Waiting for You (original version, 2005)

I have since remade this song, and it appears as the lead track on my sixth Jamendo album, In Unexpected Places.