hey hey! Matt here,

This is a most random mix of some random records. After trawling through the vast realm of hitrecord I decided to make something...anything!

It started random, but has sort of turned into a quirky little piece, cnostructed with a VO from one of regularJoes regularity records to say everything...and nothing!

that's kinda the point, to not mean anything specific, but to hold meaning in abundance!

to me it's what hitrecord's all about...to you it might be different! I just had fun making it!

hope you enjoy...I sure did :)

p.s. make sure to check the resources and REmix...there's some great stuff in there :)

Just thought I would try to make the video Joe was talking about in the re:Regularity video.

:)

I loved this song, so I did an a cappella cover of it with the help of the lovely Tia Fischer!

This is how I imagine the first part of “a new hevn” (the first 13 stanzas).  I tried to follow wirrow’s instructions as accurately as possible and I hope I managed to do that ^_^. (I tried to draw androgyne faces but the hair makes them kinda feminine).

Since I’m pretty lazy (and always short of time) I tried to squeeze in as many aspects as possible… And I also tried to stay away from Photoshop and practice painting :P (I only whitened the background:).

So the story starts (similar to “a blot story”) with a water drop and a little cloud.

Hevn is the little cloud (since clouds symbolize heaven). The cloud grows an eye (whose iris is the sun) and metamorphoses into the final hevn, which, as wirrow suggested, plays a flute.

Urth starts off as a water drop (the primordial waters). It too grows an eye (having the earth ball as an iris) and finally turns into the face which stands next to hevn within the yin yang symbol- formed by their hair (water and clouds).

Hevn plays the flute (pours its soul into it) and the melody “floats” towards urth, symbolically “infiltrates” its hand and comes out through its palm, metamorphosed into a rainbow. Each color of the rainbow takes the shape of stories (snake and apple, big fish eating small fish, etc)

The left side of the drawing is intentionally gray and white and the right one is colored to show the fact that only together the two can create something beautiful.

Sorry for the long description but I’m not completely satisfied with how some images look (I never knew it’s so hard to draw water and clouds X).

"stories grew and blossomed then
sung in by hevn’s choirs.
they formed their shape aloft in space,
took life from urthly fires."

I guess this is a more child's playground take to it. Regular Joe's adorable birthday "doo doos" gave me an idea for the lines. It seemed like something I would have skipped and chanted as a little girl.

Piano genius by megancarnes, vocals/words and thunder by me :) Basically Megan asked why I hadn't yet sung over one of her pieces - and I had no good answer - so went to quickly right the wrong!

As it happened the piece that caught my ear was something she wrote for my 'Actress and the Sorrow Bird' idea so the whole thing was wonderfully serendipitous and cyclical! Anyway here's the melody/lyrics I came up with - the mix might not be quite right as one of my headphones doesn't work (yes I blame my tools) :) Feedback welcome!

(Thunder and rain by Mike Koenig in the public domain on soundbible.com)

Re-RECommendations albums is a good way to dig up RECords we like. An other way is to remix them. I wanted to do something with TaraMarie's "Life is But a Dream Dance" for a long time. I thought it would go perfectly with Metaphorest poem "twin" by wirrow. Hope it does TaraMarie's work justice and she'll get some extra hearts :-)

amferraro and i found the darkest, sketchiest alley we could and recorded this rendition of foreign sounds. we were only attacked once.