The RPM Challenge - Leif Mulch

Leif Mulch Profile Page

About

Description:

" Antique Sixguns frontman Leif Solem writes strange, sweet, clever, sometimes sad little songs that he performs on a series of broken-down, improvised and slapdash instruments. Yet he's still able to coax out of these $3 guitars and unexpected contraptions melodies that are surprisingly catchy, to surround stories about lives that go in unexpected directions. I hate the term "quirky," but Solem is unquestionably in possession of an odd and quirky kind of genius. With a band behind him, the sound becomes fuller. the volume increases and the tempo tends to pick up, but the melodies and the lyrics remain front and center. Their namesake song remains one of my favorites. It's about guns!" --Jim Knipfel, New York Press, February 16, 2oo5

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Leif Solem

2008 RPM Album Info

Date mailed or hand-delivered:	02/29/2008
Date Received:	03/03/2008
Genre:	Americana / Roots
Album Name:	"Februjeria: The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag Soundtrack"
Album Description:	part of a radio adaptation of Robert Heinlein's novella "The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag" with interstitial music and selected scenes
Tracks (w/numbers):	1.wineglasses 2.phone call from Hoag 3."goodnight Mr Hoag" 4.easy money 5."somebody's trying to put us in the nine hole" 6."take some bicarb" 7.distortion in the lobby mirror 8.calling Dr Potbury 9.enter Phipps 1o."you lie in circles!" 11.love theme 12.little robot 13.smokestacks & traintracks 14.neckdeep in the ooze 15.momentum/inertia 16.you and me and the glacial moraine 17.songadong
Preferred Track:	smokestacks & traintracks
Band Bio:	Leif Mulch is a pseudonym for Leif Solem, former Antique Sixguns frontman, former Saint Thomas choirboy, now gradually discorporating in America's Inland Empire, taking care of a dog named Walt Whitman. Walt needs to learn not to run into traffic.
Band Members & Instruments Played:	Leif plays all the instruments on Leif Mulch recordings -- drums, bass, guitar, piano, viola, pennywhistle, wineglasses, and so on, tin can, &c, and messes them up beyond recognition using "garageband" and "audacity" and an old four-track and variable speed casette player. Also, he makes all the sound effects in the radio segments he calls "Scary Story". It's fun, and harmless. Mostly.
Band Location (city, state or province, and country):	Spokanistan, Washington, U.S.A.

music, etc

RPM 2008 demos, works-in-progress, or tracks-finished-early... a musical sketchbook. This is just a sampler -- complete and finished albums will be uploaded into the real jukebox in March!

This little songadong joins hundreds of others in the so far not very lucrative Leif Mulch oeuvre. It's about hoboes. A hobo, maintains the lyric, is always homeward bound.

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