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Episode 73: Music and/or Lyrics

For this episode, old friend and repeat guest John Charney and I muse in a graveyard about how words and music do and do not get along as means of artistic expression. This is the continuation of a conversation we’ve had for about 20 years now, and I’m not convinced this podcast is the final statement.

John is an incredibly talented musician. He had never even heard of an Omnichord before I put one in his hand, and by the time I had set up my netbook and microphone, he taught himself how to play it, composing a new intro and outro for this episode, as well as playing throughout our conversation (all while perched precariously on the hood of a Toyota Camry). You should check out his new album A Drop of Love in an Ocean of Hate on YouTube and buy A Drop of Love in an Ocean of Hate on CDBaby. He also has a fine solo acoustic album called Far Away from Today available on Bandcamp.

As always we swear, and maybe background music will become the new normal.

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Episode 67: Far Away from Today

For this episode John Charney of The Saturn Plan hangs out in a gazebo on a beautiful summer evening to discuss his new solo acoustic album on Until the Quasar Cassettes.  During the course of our conversation we grapple with the problem of how do we assign worth to memory and we listen to a song that is no longer called “Ice Cream Party.”

John’s playing is intricate and melodic as evidenced by this cover of Laura’s Song, familiar to all fans of Twin Peaks.  Come to think of it, you should really go to the album release party at The Windber Hotel on August 24, 2018.  You can score a tape (very soon) at the Until the Quasar Cassettes Bandcamp if you don’t want to buy one directly off of John.  Digital cretins can find Far away from Today on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube.

We always earn our explicit tag.

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