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Electric Fuzz Tiger, Wooden Room, World Stuff, and Space Travel (2010)

This was a series of home recorded albums I started working on around the same time in 2009, and made in a peculiar way.

The way I normally make an album is to lay everything out in advance – lyrics, compositions, arrangements, track listing, a general sense of how it’s all supposed to sound, etc – before I go into the studio.

But these albums were done in the exact opposite way.

I wrote a lot of the songs while I was already recording and mixing them on my laptop, and I normally finished the mix of each song within a few hours of coming up with the initial idea for it. Each song came to me spontaneously, one by one, without a sense of what was going to come next – and as I finished the songs, I organized them into different albums based on the feel of the song and how it fit with others I’d recently recorded – after several months of this, I had 4 finished albums, each with a very distinct sound and mood.

All of them were released online back then, and saw very limited physical releases. The main reason I took them down was because I wasn’t sure what to do with the name Jesse Statman once I became so involved with being Cannonball Statman. A lot of songs from these albums ended up being released as part of Cannonball Statman albums.

Electric Fuzz Tiger combined distorted electric guitar, hand percussion, and sort of screechy, distorted vocals, and often not much else, to make this kind of lo-fi, minimalist punk sound that often abruptly veered into other musical realms with odd time signatures and intricate, experimental melodies. “Sky” and “2710” are on this album.

Wooden Room is oriented around the nylon string acoustic guitar and similar instruments like the ukulele. A version of “Snow Globe” is on this one.

World Stuff plays a lot with a loud-quiet-loud dynamic, where a song will be just one hand drum and a spoken vocal part for awhile, and suddenly break into about a dozen stringed instruments and wind instruments playing all at once. And then back to just the hand drum. This one has a bunch of other tricks up its sleeve, and it’s really different from a lot of things I’ve done. “Out of Nowhere” and “Resting Place” are on it.

Space Travel was the name of my home recording studio, and I also wrote a song with that name for my album Painting with You – this album has a bunch of minimal electric guitar focused songs that are more moody and downtempo. “Corporate Lullaby” is on it.

from Out of Print and Unavailable Discography (as Jesse Statman)
Stench of the City (2012)
Collision (2011)
When it Rains (2011)
Painting With You (2011)
Pizza Carbonara (2011)
Rainbow in Santa Cruz (2010)
Motion Dream (2010)
For Your Listening Pleasure (2010)
Electric Fuzz Tiger, Wooden Room, World Stuff, and Space Travel (2010)

(or, go to the beginning for the full list of out-of-print and unavailable projects)