The Darkyr Sooner NYC Quartet: Four in the Top 20

Four songs from the Darkyr Sooner EP, all recorded at Buttons Sound in New York in 1999, have all become Top 20 hits on the Alternative Overall chart on Soundclick. The songs are: Sara Starr, Love Me, Blame Me, Riding the Waves, and Deflating Raft. Thanks again to Paul Levin for producing and engineering the sessions all those years ago. Cheers!

Deflating Raft

Deflating Raft is the fourth and final single from the NYC quartet taken from the Darkyr Sooner EP. As of 12-8, we stand at #20 Alternative, #4 Indie. It's a tune I started very early, '92, and finished in '94. I thought highly of it then, and it would always be one of the first songs I would play when handed a guitar. When we recorded it at Buttons Sound, the contrapuntal vocal made the thing come much more to life. Just one raw voice leaves the song a tad monotonous. The lyrics, having been published in Siren's Silence in '97, add a level of the bizarre or outre to the tune. And it is the truth that the overall effect of the vocal tracks is Jeff Buckley-ish. People can decide if they like the heavy rockist lead playing done on an acoustic.  

Sigma Sound

Without too much rhyme or reason, and by an entertainment attorney whose name I will not mention (his first name wasn't Tony), in late '97 on a semester break, I was given a tour of the inside of Sigma Sound, in Chinatown, Center City Philly. I saw the studio where Bowie recorded Young Americans, and then sat with some staffers in one of the all-purpose rooms and listened to what I'd recorded in Manayunk a month before. Interesting to remember, and try to figure out what I was doing in there. Hmmmm.