Tuesday Aug. 7th. 7-10 pm
Sugarhill Recording Studios (www.sugarhillstudios.com) in Dan's office
Allen, Dan, Heba, Phil
microKorg, some sk-1 action (bent & straight), nord electro, bass, guitar, vocals

the poopy caca session presents:
shit my pants
poison ivy gloves

from Heba:
"oh dude...don't post these!!! They're terrible..seriously."
from Dan:
"poison ivy gloves indeed. had a blast last night.... guess what? I'm starting to think that I don't have PIvy, but I am having some hellacious allergic reaction.  love"

more pictures can be found in our myspace picture folder under poopy caca

internet communication on "crap my pants" disclosure:
FROM PHIL:
hey..
I got this e-mail from heba:
"oh dude...don't post these!!! They're terrible..seriously. "
what should I do?
FROM DAN:
if she doesn't want poopy pants, we shouldn't embarass her
FROM HEBA:
Well I was only kidding really...but yea, I wouldn't say they were the "pick of our litter"...but no, you can keep em up there...I just listened back to them today and cringed a little...sorry :-/
FROM DAN:
I'm proud of you.
FROM PHIL:
I'm really proud of all of us.  By the way..."crap my pants" has been added to someone, if not more than one persons, myspace page.
www.myspace.com/darknessisspreading 
love
FROM DAN:
There is something truly amazing about listening to Heba sing on some stranger's myspace page.  Good Work Indeed!
FROM HEBA:
OH
MY
GOOOOOODDDDD!!!!!!!!




 

sk-1 project
July 3rd 2007
electro queso session
allen corneau, phillip jones, heba kadry, and dan workman

New Tracks:
saga of the vacuum tube
merci beat

This session found Dan playing bass and engineer, Heba on nord electro and vocals, allen on bent sk-1, electro bongos, phil on pianet, microKorg, guitar and vocals.   We started the session with "saga of the vacuume tube."  Dan suggested a concept piece begun with a slow build up to cacophany.  Then when all was said and done we added a more rhythmic second part to balance it out.  At the beginning of the song you will notice Dan (on bass) is hung out there alone until the rest of us got the courage or creativity to jump in.  Dan orchestrated the cacophany and break while playing bass and then we all came together for the second part.  Allen found a real cool distict drum beat, Heba played the organ part on the nord (we all could hear some Ray Manzerek coming out),  Phil played the pianet.  After laying down the foundation Heba and Phil decided to add some vocal ideas.  Phil expanding on the vocoder part from the first section and Heba reading an article or descriptive paragraph concerning the vacuum tube amp or compressor (I forget which - sorry) We did a couple takes and Heba wasn't really happy with her part but, put to a vote, it was a keeper. 

At the beginning of the session Phil mentioned that some bossa ideas had been floating around in his head and after "saga" Heba said we should endulge them.  What transpired next was "merci beat."  Phil wrote some lyric (with some help from Heba) to a simple melody line and changes.  Then he translated them to Spanish while Heba translated them to French.  In the transition from coming up with the lyrics and communicating the chord changes we had unknowingly played the tune in a key a half step up from the original thought (Phils fault).  This set the stage for some interesting vocal takes, especially the first one when Phil realized the mistake.  Anywho,  check out Dan sweet bass line and Allen's electro congo part.

This session was really fun.  We went in some new directions.  More vocal songs.  everyone had a great time.  I uploaded the pictures from the session to our myspace page in the "electro queso session" album.  The two track on in the player.  Hope you enjoy.

Oh yeah, and after listening to them (by show of hands), who thinks Heba sounds great singing in French?
 
lyrics to "merci beat"

I like to be with good people. and you?
your eyes of the sea live in my dreams.  and you?
I want to see italy, and speak the language as well, as well.
repeat in french.
 
la la lala la la lala la lala
bop bop bopbop bop bop bop bopbop bop

my friend here live like babies. and you?
do you want to dance in the sea?  and you? and you?
repeat in french

la la lala la la lala la la la lala la
I want to see italy
repeat in french

sk-1 project
tres piedras session
Sunday April 29th, 2007

allen corneau, phillip jones, dan workman
new tracks
tres piedras
lazy sunday afternoon

I would like to personalize the blog for tres piedras by including a 
quote from everyone involved, if possible.

dan-
A general absence of estrogen caused three rocks to coalesce in the SK-1 lab.  Fuzzy basses and clanky guitars abound.  Funny that our resident rock climber (Allen) deemed his melodic contribution to be unworthy.  He did, however, punch the button on a solid skgroove.  Dan=fuzzy bass, drone K-1.  Phil=guitar.
phil-
we assembled together, these three muskateers.
met 5 til 9.
created two tracks without any dears,
and all had a wonderful time.
allen -
"Although one member short, we worked out two juicy new tunes.  Phil brought to the table a couple of new sonic elements; the pianette and some madd guitar skilz. Dan pulled double-duty rocking the SK-1 and the bass. I tried to fill Heba's shoes with some keyboard foundation on  "SundayAfternoon" but couldn't find my niche for "Tres Piedras".

All in all, we had fun (as usual), and that's the whole point, right?!?"

===

There ya go, Phil.

A.

thanks for listening to the sk-1 project

sk-1 project
sut beriously session

Friday March 30th 2007  6 - 10pm
Allen, Dan, Heba, and Phil
Sugarhill Recording Studios

New Tracks:
Sut Beriously
Siberiously
Random 80's

We met @ Barnaby's for a bite.  Then to Dan's office @ Sugarhill to make some music.  We started off with Random 80's.  Then the brainstorm of Sut Beriously turned into the more refined Siberiously.  There were no pics taken during the session however I believe Heba has a phone pic of phil holding a keytar @ cafe brasil (courtesy of Ian Varley and Proud Anselmo). 

We miss Leigh, but not to Allens discredit.  Allen is a great drummer.  Check out the drum solo in Siberiously.  I mean, Beriously.  Heba is rockin' in G as always.  Dan continues to bring the bass skills (Random 80's), along with his usual arsenal of musical tools.  Phil has recently started using a MicroKorg (thanks  Kiley).  The Micro has some really great bass sounds (used for bass on Siberiously).  Heba used only the Juno this session, naturally it was attatched to the KAOS pad.

This was a really great session, however putting the synth overdubs on Siberiously at the end of the session began to get exhausting.   I posted Siberiously to our space today.  enjoy.

analog ciruitry chaos detector
sk-1 project

Robot Sunrise& Nossa Bova





                                                                              Heba got on a plane to the middle east today. These tracks for her travels.  Robot Sunrise came from a Heba and Phil Session.  One of the first sk-1 project recordings from Sugarhill.  And Nossa Bova was recorded with heba, phil and kiley.  Heba originally named the song "I'm Not your Bitch,"  which was latter changed to the polically correct "Nossa Bova"