We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

A Nowhere Jukebox, Vol. 1

by James Barnett

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
Tamale Time 01:39
2.
3.
The Arena 01:46
4.
5.
6.
Candy 01:24
7.
Alice Dream 01:30
8.
Hog's Theme 01:35
9.
10.
11.
12.

about

TL;DR:
These songs were inspired by Richard Kadrey's series of excellent Sandman Slim urban fantasy books (richardkadrey.com/slim-series/). I'm thankful to him for letting me play around in his world. I'm a fan, and this is fan music. I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. #13: youtu.be/M_ZC4rUNfAA

- -

These songs were inspired by Richard Kadrey's series of excellent Sandman Slim urban fantasy books (richardkadrey.com/slim-series/). I'd seen Geoff Barrow and Ben Salisbury's Drokk (drokk.bandcamp.com) and thought something similar might be a fun summer project. I ran it past Richard and he thought it sounded like a fun idea, but this is an unofficial thing and I intend no copyright infringement anything from the books. (HarperCollins: you need but say the word and this becomes "A Nowhere Jukebox: Music from Sandy Slender, Skinny Hatchetman.")

I left the song titles a little vague to try and avoid spoilers, and the songs jump around all over the books. It was interesting to find I almost invariably have an attention span of about a minute and 30 seconds.

"Volume 1:" I kept a few in the chamber for next round, to start the next batch with a ragged edge, instead of a blank slate. I have pages of notes and folders of half-finished recording files. Plus, you know, 13 seemed a good number.

I've known Richard for about 20 years, and hadn't done music for about 10. I'm thankful to him for letting me play around in his world. I'm a fan, and this is fan music. I hope you enjoy it.

P.S. I don't have the hearing or temperament to be a mastering engineer, so these are pretty much rough mixes. If something's completely out of whack, please let me know so I can fix it.

P.P.S. Thanks to Love Ablan (www.loveablan.com) for the album design practice.

P.P.P.S. #13: youtu.be/M_ZC4rUNfAA


COLOPHON For Gear Nerds Only

HARDWARE
Most of the pieces of hardware I used, with the exception of maybe the Ibanez and Fernandes guitars and the UX2 interface, can be had for around 50 bucks or so. It's a low-rent operation around here.

Ibanez Artcore AF75TDG, GFS Surf 90 pickups
Samson R21 mic
$60 Yamaha EG112 Strat
$70 Jackson JS22? pointy metal guitar
$50 Squier Jazz Bass
Fernandes Telecaster
Line6 UX2 audio interface
Korg NanoKey2 controller
Grado SR-80 headphones
Lepai LP2020A+ amp
Dayton Audio speakers

SOFTWARE
I am amazed at the sounds currently available for little or no money. Reaper is $60 and certainly more powerful than I'll ever fully utilize. The rest is freeware or pay-what-you-want-ware. The Poulin plugins for supermetal guitar are actually what started me back into music again, oddly, and for that I thank their creator.

AlienSpaceWeaver
AlterEgo
Ambience - Magnus Smartelectronix
Angelina
Azurite
Basic65
BassChorusV23
CamelCrusher
Chau Gongs
Cinematic Verb
Clap Machine
CM505
Combo Model F
Crystal
Cygnus
dblue Glitch
DemonMorph 2
Devil Inside
DrumKit1
Drum Boxx Synth Free
DSK Brass
DSK ChoirZ
DSK Mini Drumz 2
DSK Music Box
EVM Bassline
FabBass
Face Bender
Fauna
freesound.org - various SFX
FuzzPlus2
GGrain
GM Hysteresis
GM Fracture
Guitar Gadgets
Impakter
KettleDrum
Kontakt 5
mda Piano
mda Delay
Micromoon
MinimogueVA
MT Power Drum Kit
NC_7170 Lead
Oatmeal
Plusdistortion
Pod Farm 2
Poulin HyBrit
Poulin SoloC
Poulin LeCab 2
Reaper
Redtron_SE
Sforzando
Shortcircuit
Synth1
Striker
TAL Dub Delay
TAL NoiseMaker
Texture
TSE 808
TyrellN6
tb_carillion
tb_peach
tb_toad
tb_triforce
VibroMaster
Wollo Drone

credits

released September 22, 2015

Vocal on "Samael's Ride:" Regina Daniel www.reginadanielsoprano.com

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

James Barnett Scottsdale, Arizona

contact / help

Contact James Barnett

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like James Barnett, you may also like: