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The Scarf Soundtrack (2004)
This was our 2nd CD as The Band Of The Land, and it has an interesting backstory to it.
Since we had finished our first short film The Scarf in 2004, and we were also a band, of course we wanted to make a soundtrack album for the movie – but despite the fact that we were a band, the movie itself had no original songs in it! It just had these very short instrumentals I composed with electronic instruments and acoustic guitars.
So for the soundtrack, we combined those pieces with songs we wrote that were inspired by similar themes. There were love songs like “Untrustable Roses” that invoked similar romantic themes to the movie, and songs like “Rainy Day” that related more to its sociopolitical themes.
And because a bunch of different Band Of The Land songs were exclusively recorded for this soundtrack and were never made available anywhere else, it ended up being more like a full on Band Of The Land album than a typical soundtrack album – since the instrumental bits from the movie were so short, they felt more like mini-interludes between the songs that helped tell the story of the album.
Similar to our other albums, I’m not sure how many people still have copies of this one – it was never released online, but I’ve considered putting some of the songs on a future release.
After this one, we did at least a couple other CDs, including one that involves 3 tracks of extremely loud atonal jamming that seems to have come out of nowhere – it sounds as if some people just broke into my apartment in the middle of the album and just started banging on my drum kit and piano – it’s really cool, but I don’t know where it came from – and it’s not me or Beth playing the instruments, but it’s definitely something I recorded and deliberately put on the album – I just have no idea why.
After 2004, I really stopped being inspired to make music until 2009, when I started writing and recording the songs that would become the Cannonball Statman album More than the Nightmare Station, along with plenty of other songs that have since been released.
For me, the period between 2005-’08 was really more about a kind of compulsive focus on filmmaking projects, and I made over 100 short films in that time.
Beth and I worked together on a lot of those projects as Band Of The Land Films, and we’ve remained friends to this day, despite the morbid predictions I made in our song “Band Forever” that someday none of my bandmates would ever get in touch with me – if anything, I’m the one who’s bad at remembering to be in touch!
The Band Of The Land mostly stopped being active as a band because we were so busy with all kinds of other projects. It always has a special place in our hearts, and it was a really fun and unique time in our lives.
We had a small group of dedicated fans throughout that time – and later on, there was always this understanding among hardcore Cannonball Statman fans that The Band Of The Land was where the whole music thing started for me, especially because some of our fans went on to be Cannonball Statman fans many years later.
We reunited on stage in 2011 to play a few songs together as part of the first concert I ever did as a solo artist, which we later released a DVD of called Band Forever: Live at Perch Cafe.
from Out of Print and Unavailable Discography (with The Band Of The Land)
The Scarf Soundtrack (2004)
Band Of The Land Beach (2004)
Costa Rica for Christmas (2003)
The Band Jams (2003)
Diet Band Of The Land (2003)
The Band Of The Land and the Mic That Goes Around Your Neck (2003)
Finally Not Just the Two of Us (2003)
(or, go to the beginning for the full list of out-of-print and unavailable projects)