Tag: Jay Lane

Fear Of Everything by Eric Din

Brand new song from our fearless fearful lieder leader. Drums and bass and guitar recorded live at Jay Lane and Dave Shul’s place. Vocals overdubbed there on the spot and more at home as Din finished the song. Din is speaking of himself in the third person and we find this worrisome. Must be all the fear. In any case we love this song and we hope you may enjoy. This will also be on the Eric Din (actual!) CD, which we expect to have in our paws fairly soon.

Fear of everything
Fear of success
Fear of failure
Fear of the rest
Fear of the government
Fear of not having one
Fear of falling in love
Or being all alone

Fear of complacency
Fear of action
Fear of things we need
And getting at them
Fear of losing it all
In a fit of passion
Fear of wasting away
Or ever lastin’

Fear of heights
Fear of lows
Fear of fungus
Between my toes
Fear of laws
Fear of claws
You get bit
Need some gauze

Fear of terrible twos
Fear of paying dues
Fear of waking up
And fear of sleeping too
Fear of poverty
Fear of employment
Fear of death and
Fear of enjoyment

Fear of everything
Fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of everything
Everything
Everything, you know

Fear of flying saucers
Cameras everywhere
Fear of lizard men
And Obamacare
Fear of your dad and mama
Something’s under the bed
Fear of everything
Oh stop the drama

Fear of inertia (apathy, too)
Fear of wingnuts (crackpots)
Fear of elections
And insurrections
They’re out to get us
Coming to get us
It’s very serious
Oh wake up, sheeple (baa-a-ah!)

Fear of black and white
Red white and turning blue
State of emergency
And fear of plague too
Lock all the doors and windows
Keep well out of sight
Fear of those maniacs
On the left and right

Fear of the rabble
Who psychobabble
Fear of everything,
I do unravel
Fear of viruses
And vaccinations
Fear of everything
Across the nation

Fear of breaking up
A fear of staying put
Fear of sticking your neck out
Fear of smiling
Fear of the other
And the other’s mother
Fear of what it means
To be their sisters and brothers

Fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of everything
Everything

Fear of freemasons
And secret spyware
Fear of Illuminati
And fear of bad hair
Fear of heaven
Fear of hell
Fear of witches
Casting spells

Fear of repeating myself
And doing it twice
Fear of pestilence
Fear of clowns
Fear in here
Fear over there
I’m finding fear
In everywhere

Fear of cut and paste
Fear of science
Fear of being in touch
Fear of silence
Fear of priests and lawyers
And halitosis
Fear of all the tickets
And my neurosis

Fear of waiting for the sun to shine
Fear of waiting for the sun to fall down
Fear of everything I ever did and wanted
Fear of this and fear of that and fear the house is haunted

Fear of feeling
Fear of talking
Fear of listening
Fear of trying
Fear of worrying
Worrying about fearing
Fear of every every every little thing, fear

Fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of fear of everything
Everything, you know

Aaaaah, Everything
Aaaaah, Everything

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Eric Din – guitar and vocals (and claps!)
Dave Shul – bass, guitar, and vocals (and claps!)
Jay Lane – drums and vocals (and claps!)

Recorded at Jay and Dave’s studio, engineered by Dave Shul
Additional vocals recorded at Din’s house
Artwork by Shannon Wheeler
Produced by Eric Din for Berkeley Cat Records

© Dinwiddie, Lane, Shul
King Roy Music, BMI

LAMENT – Audio by Russ Ellis and Jay Lane, Video by Jason Martineau

We have a very special treat for you today on Russ Ellis’ BIRTHDAY!!
A brand new amazing video set to the Russ Ellis track, LAMENT.

Here’s video producer Jason Martineau’s notes:

When Russ first approached me with the idea of creating a video of fractals and computer-generated visuals to accompany his audio track, I eagerly seized upon the opportunity. Using his iconic image by photographer Judy Dater, I built a visual narrative of mathematically generated clips utilizing 10+ different applications, then composited and animated them to follow the music. Russ provided invaluable creative input along the way. I’m very happy with the result, and indeed honored to have been asked to contribute in this way. In a sense, it’s not much different than if he had sent me an original melody and asked me to come up with a chord progression for it. So, this is my “visual harmonization” for Russ’s “Lament”

Here’s Russ’s notes:

Fans of the audio version of “Lament” will be aware of its origins from its liner notes on Songs From The Garden. As soon as it was completed, I imagined it with images. Several years ago, Jason Martineau introduced me to fractals, The Mandelbrot Set, etc., so, last year, I asked him to entertain the prospect of adding fractals to Lament. He agreed. I am very happy with the results. Hang with it a couple of times. There’s stuff to get into.

You can also view this directly on YouTube if you like, and you may share it to your heart’s content. We suggest you view it full-screen, at high-res.

Enjoy! And please join me and all the Berkeley Cats in wishing Russ Ellis a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! And many more. Much love,

Eric Din

Lament by Russ Ellis

I’m delighted to announce the release of this collaboration between Russ Ellis and Jay Lane. What I might say about it is mostly said in Russ’s liner notes, below. But I’ll add, this one really reminds me of my dad. He’d love this. Actually, I think he does! I certainly do. Have a listen and a read and a Happy Caturday, y’all! Here we are at song 6 out of 11 for this album 🙂

-Eric Din

UPDATE August 14, 2021: Jason Martineau created a beautiful video for this track, which you can view here.

Liner notes from Russ:

I met Jay Lane when he was 14, the youngest participant in Cazadero’s Jazz Camp otherwise limited to “adults.” We were both enrolled in an “electronic music” class taught by Malcolm Cecil. Yes, that Malcolm Cecil.

For decades after that, Jay has been after me to collaborate on some “Hearts of Space” music. (That was the name of a popular radio show
featuring computerized music). Last year I agreed and this is the result of that collaboration.

We did not plan ahead. It took Jay ages to get his Pleistocene equipment going. When it was ready, we just started. Then we stopped.

Credits:

Russ Ellis: Voice
Jay Lane: Music

© 2020 Russ Ellis and Jay Lane

Produced by Jay Lane