"Mercator Projection" b/w "Give Me a Sign"

Hey alls-

First off a reminder that you can stream goods over here if you want:
https://soundcloud.com/johnk-rkbs
And also can revisit the first post from this session here:
"Mary, Mary" b/w "Wrung Out"

Otherwise, yeah, we're back to a couple solo efforts from the basement.

First one is a nice, sweeping instrumental called "Mercator Projection".  This one could've gone about a hundred different ways, but it ended up in the kind of Giant Sand/ Calexico soundtrack territory that takes me back to my Tucson days.  The drums are brushed.  The Gretsch is heavily delayed and as heavily panned right and left. As part of the obligatory Ennio Morricone nod, the baritone guitar is in there, sometimes run through the Hummingbird super-fast tremolo (a combination that I've come to really like and will no doubt run into the ground in short order).  As another nod to spaghetti westerns (and simultaneously to the Zombies) I dialed up some Mellotron strings on the keyboard.  Anyway, I'm fond of these type of numbers.  Maybe should dig up a couple of the old ones and lend them a new gloss with all my mod production skillz and fancy gear....

"Give Me a Sign", on the other hand, is cinematic more in the sense that it kept managing again and again to crawl off the scrap heap.  I dunno.... I still don't feel I've arrived at the right destination but didn't want to sweat it out any more.  Maybe I'll look back in a few months and the right hook/ riff/ melody/ etc will spark to mind...  In the meantime, that's what they made B-sides for!  Just figured I'd include it with the post to see what anybody else thought of it in the current state.

Yers,

JK

Mercator Projection:   https://app.box.com/s/okdfkm70bid0mzj5ktgc  


Give Me a Sign:  https://app.box.com/s/87luf4lt7dee6qutnmmr