Songs From The Other Room

Written and performed by Adam Rabin

I had some opinions to work out, it would seem. Cable news rots your brain, folks. Yes, even the shows that agree with your point of view.

I got to break out my alto recorder, JTV Variax electric for some spaghetti western leads, and my 6- and 12-string acoustic guitars. Sorry, no video this time.

Thanks to Ornan McLean for the title suggestion

Too many voices on the air

Too many voices set in stone

And the words that we keep to ourselves

Too many voices crowd my brain

And the words that we keep to ourselves

Too many voices shouted down

Too many voices in the choir

And the words that we keep to ourselves

Happy Valentine’s Day. I wrote this one for my sweetie, Kate. But, it’s really for all you lovers out there. Aww yeah.

written and performed by Adam Rabin

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. Here’s a super short idea I laid down for the Improvised Weapons podcast. It gave me an excuse to use an old-timey melodica on loan from my mother-in-law.

Elephants of Scotland have re-released our 2014 album Execute and Breathe remixed and remastered. Less processed, more dynamic, more natural. And, best of all, it’s FREE! Rock out to the closing track, “Mousetrap.”

words: Greg Skillman

Something I’ve been noodling with on guitar for a few months. I recorded the two guitar parts a few weeks ago and then scratched my head for a couple weeks figuring out what else it needed. I had actually spent a few hours recording a drum set part that was so completely wrong and out of place. Then I remembered that I bought a pair of bongos at a yard sale this summer and it all made sense.

That said, it might be interesting to do this same piece with a full rock band. I can hear a Led Zep III-style arrangement. Maybe even with lyrics. We shall see.

As for the title, well … it’s an instrumental so I can call it whatever I want.

Written and performed by Adam Rabin

Improvised Weapons is a Vermont-based Dungeons & Dragons podcast where the cast plays D&D while acting out their  adventures in character. I’m friends with a few of the gang and everytime I listened to it I thought, “hmm, I wonder if they’d be interested in having some custom cinematic-style music instead of the electronic piece they’d been using.” So, I asked. Why not, right?

They loved it; I loved it. And here it is. Over the next few months I will be working on additional music that they can use throughout the episodes. A fun little ongoing project for a great bunch of gamers.

Here’s a video of just the opening theme. The mp3 download includes both the opening and closing themes.

Joe came to me several months ago with the rhythm bed for this tune and over the next few months I added guitars and synths and, at the last moment, Joe wrote some lyrics and a melody.

Since we picked at this tune over the course of the year, we don’t have any footage so I had some fun with stock footage and effects. Enjoy!

written and performed by Joe Netzel and Adam Rabin

written and performed by Adam Rabin on Yamaha P-115

No big story behind this tune. It’s a series of modulations and time signatures that I’d been messing with on my piano for a few months and finally decided to lay it down and send it off into the world.

Performed by Adam Rabin, May 13-14, 2017

This is an old Mailbox tune that I first recorded and released in 2005. In that old recording I used harp samples and lots of other synths. I originally wrote it much like how I perform it here: just vocal and acoustic guitar.

Written, recorded, video’d, mixed, edited all on Saturday, March 25, 2017 by Adam Rabin.