Archive - MUSICAL DEPICTIONS of EXTRACTIONS

Return of Raagini

recording notes on oneiric composition forty-one

Jul 7 •

Richard Buckner

June 2024

Spell (2005 MD8 demo)

Spell was written & demoed from a Bed-Stuy brownstone second floor room overlooking the street. I’d just moved in, & was absorbing the new surroundings…

Jun 19 •

Richard Buckner

Friends (Mark-Almond) — a 2012 home rendering

I found Mark-Almond while in one of those veg-meditative states flipping through a used vinyl bin somewhere. I’d never heard of them, just the later…

Jun 5 •

Richard Buckner

May 2024

Surrounded (lost-&-found home recording #10)

This first draft of Surrounded is from October 2012. It was plucked on a no-name guitar from a small room by an insomniac, stated in the initial lyrics…

May 7 •

Richard Buckner

April 2024

MD8 — mid-April untitled (an exploratory reset)

This instrumental track began with setting up the Yamaha MD8 again after years in suitcase storage.

Apr 14 •

Richard Buckner

Redemption (lost-&-found home recording #9)

The title is from a running registry of concepts that, when the mood hit me, I sometimes threatened to cut out of an imaginary dictionary.

Apr 1 •

Richard Buckner

March 2024

Ocean Cliff Clearing (since cassette demos 1997)

At the time, I was listening to a lot of Felt. I didn’t take the warnings. I was too busy.

Mar 12 •

Richard Buckner

January 2024

Before (kitchen table recording)

This phone recording of Before was made yesterday at my kitchen table while I was running through an intended tour set list on my Harmony nylon.

Jan 27 •

Richard Buckner

Coursed (since cassette demos 1997)

I was still whittling the words when I recorded Coursed on the corder, thus a few stumbled phrasings that were ironed out by the time of the Since…

Jan 14 •

Richard Buckner

December 2023

beautiful question (lost-&-found home recording #8)

About 2011, I was asked to do incidental music that would score a trailer for a craft workshop video with designer Jill Draper, marking my first music…

Dec 12, 2023 •

Richard Buckner

freedom (lost-&-found home recording #7)

This acoustic demo called freedom is likely from 2015.

Dec 5, 2023 •

Richard Buckner

November 2023

put on what you wanna (jackpot! sessions 2001)

The 2001 Jackpot! Sessions yielded the basic tracks of fourteen songs, then were abandoned, caught in a flux of creative desire & elusive synthesis.

Nov 13, 2023 •

Richard Buckner

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