These are live recordings made direct to two track during Recalcitrance
practice sessions in basements across Northern Virginia complete with
flubs and warts (and no overdubs).
Most were made using 2 mics on the guitar, 4 mics on drums and either 1 mic on
bass or bass direct.
No edits were made unless otherwise noted (only fades so far).
All of the songs are instrumental and were recorded with the Mike
Stovicek/Chris Howard/Sean Echevarria lineup (except where otherwise noted).
This page will be updated as I find time to go through the box of tapes that I have.
Many of these recordings are untitled. I'll put 'improv' in the title field if it
was a one off. I'll describe other untitled songs by either words we sometimes used
to talk about them or by the effects I used on them. Words like clean, distorted
and effected are used to describe the guitar sounds (simple chorus or echo on
guitar does not qualify as effected).
| Song Title | Date of Recording |
MP3 Filesize |
Upload Date |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Death | 1994.05 | 1.03 MB | 2005.11.28 | - short and to the point - fade out applied after digital conversion - thrashy |
| Sonance Variance | 1994.05 | 5.82 MB | 2005.11.28 | - reverse delays - distorted and spacy |
| A Minor Nebula | 1994.05 | 4.24 MB | 2005.11.28 | - early version - later versions have a different section at the end - the intro would be Mike yelling at Chris - distorted and spacy |
| Sleestaks | 1996.04 | 5.20 MB | 2005.11.28 | - a bit monotonous - tape saturated bass - distorted and effected |
| Lessons in Darkness | 1996.04 | 6.51 MB | 2005.11.28 | - some tape saturation - guitarist missed a lot of changes/cues... - lots of clean parts |
| A Minor Nebula | 1996.04 | 5.36 MB | 2005.11.28 | - some tape saturation - distorted and spacy |
| Untitled (clean 3on2) | 1996.?? (spring) | 5.87 MB | 2005.11.28 | - this is an untitled, uncomposed piece - different everytime we played it - from a tape labeled spring 1996 - clean and spacy |
| Untitled (improv clean DrippingReverb) | 1996.?? (spring) | 7.86 MB | 2005.11.28 | - I don't remember ever playing this, must have been a one-off - lots o' drumming - At the end you can barely hear Mike telling Chris "you can change once in awhile if you want to you know" - fade in at the start added after digital conversion due to the original tape missing the start - from a tape labeled spring 1996 - clean, effected and spacy |
| Untitled (the dark song)(clean series+parallel fx) | 1996.?? (spring) | 13.22 MB | 2005.11.28 | - another untitled, uncomposed piece - known or described as the dark song - break up in the middle is from my car tape deck eating the tape - from a tape labeled spring 1996 - clean, effected and spacy |
| Illusory Visions | 1996.?? (spring) | 7.53 MB | 2005.11.28 | - from a tape labeled spring 1996 - distorted and effected |
| can't remember (it might be Torrential Flood of Illogic) | 1996.?? (spring) | 4.72 MB | 2005.11.28 | - guitarist screwed this one up - from a tape labeled spring 1996 - a bit fusiony |