CarnyMusic Recording

01/03/2025

12/07/2024

Today we have a new single out!! ‘In Your Blood’ can be streamed wherever you listen to music. And if you want to support the band, you can purchase a download on our Bandcamp page:

https://thegreendoor.bandcamp.com/track/in-your-blood

Also, we are screening an amazing new music video for this song, by White Light Prism, tonight at our release party at Oakland Riviera! Come join us for a special performance along with our friends Coywolf.

Info on flyer:

12/03/2024

Great show in our front performance room, for a killer new song and music video release party for The Green Door!!

06/19/2024

05/10/2024

an early track from the new record (spring 2018)update: new record: american canyonnow available: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/karajlostcoast4more tunes, s...

05/06/2024

Welcome to the team Otari MX5050 8 track tape recorder!!

04/22/2024

Check out the new video for a We.are.hunters. song we recorded many moons ago!

We always meant to make a music video for this song. Better late than never! The Her is Me is from our second album, Treeline: https://geni.us/TreelineAlbumL...

04/15/2024

Working with Leslie Medford proves instant gratification. The projects starts on Saturday and is released Monday! We did have a blast polishing these demos and live recordings from the late 80s. Check the 1st comment on the Ophelia’s post for a link to Leslie’s Bandcamp page for this album.

RELEASED TODAY ON BANDCAMP
Total Time: 52:45
Live recordings from 1987-1989
Access detailed credits, lyrics, perhaps some commentary, by clicking on individual song titles.

A L O V E K N O T F O R E V E R Y O N E

Mike Carnahan and I agreed that having knocking sounds throughout songs is fantastic, adding a lot! Also other cassette machine rumblings and hissy fits. (K)NOT! Please look beyond the Lo-Fi to the heart of the song - my only hope. I can, and Mike can! We had a blast today getting this album together. Strange music can be like that. Won't you join us for a largely extemporaneous ride, of some cm laude adventure? —LM 15apr24

O N E D O L L A R

Cover photograph by Erik Auerbach, 1988

04/08/2024

Great session yesterday tracking with Abel Mouton

03/19/2024

Overdubbing piano with the ever talented Mullen and Karaj Lost-coast !

03/10/2024

Enjoy this new video from Karaj Lost-coast which chronicles his journey last year from California to Maine. We spruced up his home recordings with some additional layers in the studio to create this final version.

written on a 2022 journey to experience autumn in the northeast…. a goal of the trip was to come back with a song!, such as it might be… (hoping any loss in...

03/05/2024

The Heaven Insects album is very good - fun, tuneful and toe-tappy. The versions of Apron Strings and Southeast Asian American Blues may just top the Ophelias versions, they're that good. Plus the Barrett and all the other stuff; Melodious Lay. For ONE BUCK at Bandcamp! Ride the Comments to paydirt NOW!

02/06/2024

Check the description in this forwarded post and take a listen to this collection of demos and live recordings that we polished. These tracks helped pave the way to The Ophelias.
It’s been a lot of fun working with Leslie Medford on these!

https://lesliemedford.bandcamp.com/album/blown-youth

Hi friends! Well, here are fourteen more recordings from my past. True, all recordings are from that dimension, so, specifically, 1982-84 spawned these. It was an active and fruitful period for me, antecedent to the formation of The Ophelias in October 1984. This makes four pre-Oafs Bandcamp albums - and that will be all for now - which lead directly into "Green Girl" and the other material available at The Ophelias Bandcamp page. Basically, "The Voyage of the Dark-Eyed Sailor" & "BrowBeat" are the more "serious" sets in that they are mostly my own songs, home recordings I made on a TEAC 4-track reel-to-reel; whereas, "Quaint" and this new one, "Blown Youth", are live performances recorded on boomboxes and such and include a lot of covers (my live sets of that period being dominated by the music of others.) Also included are some songs being conceived onto tape. These are particularly rough and beg your best indulgence! (Repeated listens will illuminate their strengths, I'm positive.) The songs by my musical heroes give a glimpse of where I'm from and the Medford songs point to where I was going. Everything's a "demo" - on all four of these albums - everything dreams of a better version down the turnpike. Ah, but that proved to be a circle, a big O, a merry failure. Only a few ever got re-addressed whatsoever. Still, I have no qualms about sharing with you these artifacts from my BLOWN YOUTH.
—LM”

The cover photograph is by Erik Auerbach. Link to Blown Youth in Comments.

01/29/2024

Tracking ‘Call It A Night’ with Karaj Lost-coast

01/15/2024

First session of ‘24 and starting the year off right

12/19/2023

Take a listen to Leslie Medford’s latest release of legacy recordings that we’ve been breathing new life into.

https://lesliemedford.bandcamp.com/album/quaint

Happy Solsticetime, everyone! Here follows the blurb attached to my new Bandcamp album, "Quaint". (Link in Comments) I hope you'll give it a spin...

"It’s me! with 31 minutes of fumbling, altogether unsatisfactory performance! But one has to start somewhere; it’ll be over before you know it, and I *do* think each one of these “scores a charm point or two” as we liked to say in the days of quaint. I wouldn’t share them otherwise.
Barely two years into the adventure of singing-whilst-playing-guitar, I was writing stuff, learning songs off records, beginning to play in public, and sometimes being recorded doing these things...well, such recordings that survive are completely haphazard and practically random. Using a cassette dictaphone of my father’s I would sometimes record myself playing something I learned that day, before I could really play it…then never record it when I *could* play it passably well! And these wonderful "covers" I attempted in public were often tantalizingly just beyond my grasp, with nerves further bamboozling my efforts. But I was a nervy novice, and I kept pushing on. I hope many who saw me perform in 1982 would remember me as being better than this, (haha!) and will project onto *this* half hour good vibes still reverberating from my best intentions, my better performances, and my joy in playing for you. —LM "