A song a week by Charles Allison and friends.

Week 46- Maybe

charlesallison — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:07:10 +0000

Players:
Brian King: Acoustic guitar
Scott Courter: Electric guitar
Callie Harmon: Electric guitar
John R Lazenby III: Synth
Charles Allison: Programming, Voice

Week 45- Who decides

charlesallison — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:43:57 +0000

Week 45- Who decides by Charles Allison

Players:
Callie Harmon: Microkorg, guitar chink
Charles Allison: Reason, microkorg, beats, voice

Week 44- There is no light without dark

charlesallison — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:07:45 +0000

Week 44- There is no light without dark by Charles Allison

Players:
Callie Harmon: Electric guitar, drums
John Lazenby III: Piano, bass
Charles Allison: Voice

Week 43- Your karma ran over your dogma

charlesallison — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:10:02 +0000

Week 43- Your karma ran over your dogma by Charles Allison

Playas:
Charles Allison: Nord, beats, bass, synth, voice

Week 42- Shaky faith

charlesallison — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:15:32 +0000

Week 42- Shaky faith by Charles Allison

Players:
Callie Harmon: Guitar, farfisa
Bob Stagner: Drums
John Lazenby III: Bass, organ
Justin Cox: Voice
Charles Allison: Voice

Week 41- And then fade to black

charlesallison — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:37:50 +0000

Week 41- And then fade to black by Charles Allison

Players:
Callie Harmon: Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, groovebox
John Lazenby III: Bass
Bob Stagner: Floor tom, hihat cymbal
Charles Allison: Vibraphone

Week 40- All the stars i named with you

charlesallison — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 03:52:01 +0000

Week 40- All the stars i named with you by Charles Allison

Players:
Klaus Wunderlich: Wersi Organ
Callie Harmon: Electric guitar
John Lazenby III: Bass
Charles Allison: Acoustic guitar, beats, synth, voice

Week 39- They’ll leave a light on for you

charlesallison — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:19:27 +0000

WEEK 39- They’ll leave a light on for you by Charles Allison

Players:
Aaron Distler: Drums
Callie Harmon: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
John Lazenby III: Banjo, mellotron
Charles Allison: Voice, bass

Week 38- I’m waiting for your dissipating

charlesallison — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:31:10 +0000

Week 38- I’m waiting for your dissipating by Charles Allison

Players:
Bijan Dhanani: Guitar, farfisa, chorus bass
Charles Allison: Beats, verse bass, kaoss pad, tambourine, voice

Week 37- You set yourself up

charlesallison — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:34:47 +0000

Week 37- You set yourself up by Charles Allison

I started this week off like many of these with the hopes and opportunity to do something with my band Land Camera. We had a session on tuesday that was good but i wasn’t terribly motivated to pull something out of it for this week’s song. I’ve made an incredible amount of these songs with them and they’ve been amazingly fluid and fun to make but this week just wasn’t as happening as most of those.

So later in the week. ie: last night, i started thinking about what i wanted to do. I needed to so something on my own and i wanted to get in a different space to do it; physically and mentally.

I’m building a woodshop out in my detached garage, and i wanted to do something out there. Its very rough and dirty and Its a much more live space than my studio and i wanted to use that for character. Even though its close to the studio, the logistics of setting levels and running back and forth was not at all appealing so the obvious choice to record it was my battery-powered Zoom H4 stereo recorder.

I wrote the song in a about 30 or 40 minutes and i recorded it in a few takes. I recorded some vocal harmonies on the copperphone once i imported the track to PT. I decided about half way through that i wanted to video the song also. That, as with all my video endeavors, was a complete disaster and is why you don’t see a video.

Players:
Charles Allison: Acoustic guitar, voice