My Discography of Songs from Beginning
to End
I thought it would be interesting for the both of us
by giving you a chance to listen to even the earliest of demos since all bands
start out in the "I don't know where I'm going but here is my first composition
stage". Let me warn you though...if you're looking for the better songs,
go further down the page and listen to the others. ;-) Anyways, here is the
VERY first song I EVER put down to tape. I've been playing bass guitar for a
good year now (6 months I've been playing "religiously"). This track
was when I hadn't played but literally a month or two. I always wanted to do
a little dueling guitar instrumental so I put this little tune together I called
simply The Beginning.
Here is the second track I worked on in December of 1997
of what may or may not be an entire album. We'll see how much patience
I have to write that many songs....heh heh. It is called "The People".
You'll get a kick out of the lyrics. I'm really not driven "too"
crazy by my friends (but I must say that at times we all need to be put in an
asylum from our unusual behavior.....me included). I just thought it'd
be different to poke a little fun at people that I know and people in general
while I'm at it. Drop me an email and let me know what you think.......just don't hound me too much ok?
:-)
My third song is a simple little instrumental I did in
January of 1998 called, Cirque De SchizoPhobia which was the first thing that
I wrote on the piano since I hadn't stroked the ol ivories in about 10 years
now. I just recently picked up a Yamaha keyboard and stumbled onto a traditional
circus sound and had a blast putting this one together!
Here is the fourth song I did in March of 1998 that is
still being pieced together but the basic bass, drums, keyboards tracks are
there. I call it Life.
As of May 24, 1998, I just uploaded my fifth song I call
Payback . I stumbled upon writing this song based on the keyboard track alone.
It has kind of an "oom pa" beat with a dark sounding keyboard patch
I used on my Yamaha. Then I decided to throw a little bit of bass over the top
and came up with the lyrics last. I hope you like it!
OK, it's June 19, 1998. What can I say? I've been pretty
flakey...haha! The bottom line is that I've been toying around with my new guitar
which I've been playing for a total of...uh....like 3 months. So...I present
to you my first attempt to play guitar. Be nice...:-) This is a basic instrumental
that I've been putting together and the sixth song is called Rounding. Nothing
too intricate. Just a little play off between the bass and the guitar. I've
got SO many tunes in my head that I'm trying to force out so I'm going to try
and get these demos up as soon as possible! Rounding was the product of a couple
takes. I'm not striving for PERFECTION yet. Just trying to have fun seeing what
I can conjure up from my mind to my music.
Welp...a month later....July 16, 1998 and I've got the
seventh song done. Not bad considering I'm trying to keep afloat with computer
tech garbage full time, and figure this whole music thang out. This is a ballady
tune that I call The End.
It is September 27, 1998 and here is my latest
song called To Love Or Not To Love.
Well.....November 8th, 1998, and here is the 9th song
called Stick in the Knife. And excuse the abrupt cut off towards the end of
the track....I don't have that much server space and I've had to cut my songs
off at 3 minutes so at least you get the idea of the song....I've been spending
a lot of my time driving myself nuts with the sound quality of these tracks
so I haven't been spitting out as much as I'd like to these days. But I'm still
plugging away trying to get as many demos out as possible. And for one guy,
I don't think I'm doing all that bad, do you...;-)
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's 1999 now and I'm still plugging
away at this music thang. I've got a couple new songs for you to listen to.
The first one was recorded in December of 1998 and I call it Disturbed.. It
really wasn't a song that I was big on doing cuz it came to me by accident when
I started reworking old songs and working on new songs with my new Roland VS-840
recorder. But I had so much fun playing with the bizarre patches on there that
I came up with this funny lil track.
The last track that I finished is a tribute song to an
artist that I respect very much. Kevin Gilbert. There is currently a tribute CD that
is in the works that I did a track for that may or may not be on there. I'm
not sure if I'm going to offer this song up but we shall see how it goes. The
track is called Song for a Dead Friend. It's my little tribute to a musician
that never got the respect that he truly deserved. You can click on his name
above if you would like to get more information on the works of Kevin Gilbert.
Hello again! It is now getting towards the end of February
and BOY do I have some new songs for you....;-) I've got 4 new tracks here for
your listening pleasure. And these are definitely ecclectic....heh. First off,
I have a song that brings me back to my Trombone playing days in the high school
band that I've simply entitled, Memoirs of a Disgruntled Band Geek. The second
song is pretty self explanatory....it's a gooey and gushy love song that I wrote
for someone...and you know who you are hon... ;-) .....it's called In The Dark.
The third song is a little instrumental guitar improvisational track that I
ended up lucking out with and getting recorded in one take. It's called Psychadelia.
And finally, this last one will crack you guys up. I've gotten a hold of a drum
and loop program that allows you to do techno stuff. So here is my first shot
at "acid jazz techno"....hahaha. It's called BweetBox.
Well...it is pushing mid May now and it's time
to throw some more of my music up for your listening pleasure. First off, we
have just one song with my vocals on it called Billy. Next is Pirate Ship which
is more of a new drifting into the techno waters for me. Then we have Da Schiz
Bomb which is another techno toon for those that wanna good beat to move to.
And Improvinata is a keyboard piece that I did with a sonata backdrop with me
improvising over the top. It turned out pretty good too surprisingly...;-)
And we're on to early in June and I have another
little diddy for you that I call simply, Choose. I'm getting more confident
with my vocals and really let myself go on this song. I'm pretty proud of it
other than the fact that I need to be a bit less repetitive on the music side.
I was more concerned about the vocals than the actual song though. I just wanted
an "outer space" backbeat which I came up with quickly and structured
the vocals around it. Hope you like it. :)
Well....here we are in November and I've got another
song to add. Actually, I've got 6 songs that I need to finish up. So hopefully,
I will be playing catch up to get these new songs up for your listening pleasure.
Hope you enjoy this instrumental techno song that I call The Dark Side of Light.
Back again. And it's the year 2000!!! I have a couple
new songs for you to check out. First we have See No Evil Mix. Which is along
the same lines as the Dark Side of Light playing some improv electric guitar
to a techno backbeat. The other tune is called Windy Nights which is one of
my favorites because it has a "beyond the cosmos" kinda sound to it
which I've been TOTALLY into these days. Stay tuned for a second CD coming out
soon which is going to be mostly instrumentals.
The latest news as of March 25, 2000, is that I
have a few more tracks for ya. One OLD one that I finally added some vocals
to so I could move on to some more shtuff is called Fear. I hope you enjoy it.
It's my lil exploration into what we all tend to feel from time to time. The
other tune is called Thinking Too Much. Questioning my basic existence on this
planet. God I hate it when I'm DEEP...;-)
Hmmm...I guess I dropped off the face of the Earth on
updates. Sorry bout that. I had all kinds of ideas for a radio station
that I kinda started to get exposure to my songs and it just fell through the
way side. Anyways, two CDs later, I'm still doing more songs. We're
start with the latest ballad I call Let Go. Then there is a little track
I did just playing around on the guitar....made it sound pretty percussive and
groovin I simply call Trippy.
WOW! It's August 30 of 2009. Pushing the year 2010 and I'm looking through the previous entries almost 10 plus years ago. AMAZING. Looks like my last entry was during my 2nd Schizo CD. And now I have at LEAST 60 + tracks recorded. I released a "Most of SchizoPhobia" CD that I'm entitling "#4" as there are a few tracks I added not on the previous releases. And now I'm looking to add even more music I've been recording on Garage Band. Makes life so much easier just using one machine to lay down all the tracks. It's just finding the time thats holding me back. ;-) Stay tuned here as I'll be going through this little diary of mine and add links to the songs I referenced to all those years ago. I found it amusing listening to the songs I recorded back in 1997 til now. Be fun to reference them through this Diary of "Beginning to End". So bare with me as I undergo some web page rennovations and provide tracks to listen to (both new and old).
Well...I'm going to stop saying I'm consistent with my songs...lol. It's March of 2010 and I'm going through old tracks, always working on pieces of new tracks but also getting sidetracked with my poetry page where I've written over 174 to date. To find the time to do all this is quite the task but hope to have new tracks up. The latest updates are adding the link to "Memoirs of a Band Geek" which seems to be my most downloaded to date. Also adding the link for "To Love or Not To Love" which was an written back in 2000 I want to say that was an acapella song I did on my thoughts on "love". And my thoughts have not changed in the last decade it seems.
All the best....Rob Bartsch (aka the one man band that was and will be again....SchizoPhobia) |
