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The Royal “We” Have a Fan!!

Rowan Alpha Zeta — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:02:58 +0000

I’m always finding out about all sorts of ways that people find out about this project. Most, understandably, are MST’ies. Many are Subgenii. But a couple of days ago, This Is Where the Fish Lives got a couple of very excited e-mails from a Lemon Kittens fan who found out about TIWtFL via Lemon Kittens’ MySpace page.

This guy was also the first person ever to request a free CD-R of The Lemon Kittens EP. Excellent.

Not bad for a music project that gets almost nothing in the way of promo.

Speaking of, and since it’s already free, I also uploaded The Lemon Kittens EP for free download via last.fm. This means This Is Where the Fish Lives will also be getting free Internet “radio” play via last.fm — most likely something like their “tag radio” for stuff like “sound collage”, even though there’s no collage in those three tracks (unless you count throwing in Twin Peaks samples), just cos people have this bad habit of calling something “avantgarde” or “experimental” when there’s nothing really “avantgarde” or “experimental” about it. Joyfulness.

New This Is Where the Fish Lives track

Rowan Alpha Zeta — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:17:33 +0000

The above is a flash-embedded player from Odeo Studio.

If you’d rather, go to the TIWtFL MySpace page and feel free to add it to your page. Of course, MySpace won’t let me include the whole title of the piece, so remember, it’s called “Book of Ruadhan Verse 4:33 (To J.C. The Almighty)”!

And it’s totally funny.

I have no idea how I did it. But I did it. Yes, one effects-induced continuous low C-note on viola. For four minutes and thirty-three seconds. HILARITY.

(cross-posted from The Young Soul Rebel — feed it and read it!)

Lemon Kittens EP - .zip file

Rowan Alpha Zeta — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:06:08 +0000

DOWNLOAD ME!

OK, that’s the zip file of all three tracks from The Lemon Kittens EP. Download is totally free, and if you like that, check out the originals!

Karl Blake currently has set up a Lemon Kittens MySpace page, and sometimes he changes the songs on there. eBay sometimes Lemon Kittens stuff on there for sale, too. “The American Cousin” and “Lycanthrothene” were originally on We Buy A Hammer For Daddy and I think “What the Cat Brought In” was originally on Cakebeast.

If you’re actually waiting for “the real live This Is Where the Fish Lives album”, tentatively titled Ersatz Music For Ersatz People, first let me ask:

Why?

…but seriously…

Ersatz Music For Ersatz People is still a work-in-progress. I’ve been playing around with Odeo Studio recently, in addition to CakeWalk Pyro and LJ-Talk, so I’ve been saving up a lot of weirdness and samples of myself reading poetry and incredibly strange singing-type stuff. So this will hopefully keep me amused until a friend of mine comes up to visit me this April so we can noodle around and hopefully create a few things that will be used on the album.

The Lemon Kittens EP

Rowan Alpha Zeta — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:33:38 +0000

OK, back in, like, November, I think it had a lot to do with listing Lemon Kittens as an influence on MySpace, This Is Where the Fish Lives was contacted to do a few Lemon Kittens covers for Karl blake’s 50th birthday.

So, for a while, I’m going to make available as download-only those three covers that I’ve jokingly/lovingly called The Lemon Kittens EP.

Right-click to download (zip-file coming later):
“The Amerikan Cousin” (Rowan Alpha Zeta on electric viola, X on bass flute)
“Lycanthrothene” (Rowan Alpha Zeta on electric guitar, vocals and extra-large bag of M&M’s; X on kitchenware percussion and synth-effects)
“What the Cat Brought In” (X on synth-effects, synthesized kitchenware percussion and bass-flute; Rowan Alpha Zeta on vocals and electric guitar; samples from Twin Peaks; cat noises by Little Vermin)