schiing » The Barry Manilow Task Force Project

Update:

The archive.org servers appear to be a little unsteady, so I’m sending the links to my last.fm page instead.

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I just had a wonderful experience. Yesterday I was aimlessly surfing on the internet, kind of restless and feeling very unproductive.

Then I came over this project entitled Album-A-Day (applied crap art). It’s been running for years, and to create an "Album-A-Day", you must record a piece of music following these rules (quote):

It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 24-hour period (preferably with no sleep break in there).

It must be at least 20 minutes or 30 songs. (many short songs tend to work better than long songs which drag on forever, trust me.)

Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)

No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.

No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.

This is a great challenge for any musician. I usually spend days just creating the sounds for my songs. I decided to make an Album-A-Day, and I just finished it - in time!

It’s an album of 7 songs lasting 20:22 minutes. This is the result. Enjoy!

The Barry Manilow Task Force Project
Created: May 28-29, 2008, Terje Fjelde

1. The Dixon Campaign Incident, Part 2 (Or When Did American Conservatism Begin To Crumble?) (3:45)

It’s a latin number depicting American conservatives hanging out a day at the beach. Very chilling - very amusing. I’m extremely happy with this myself. It’s dedicated to Scott McClellan.

2. The Barry Manilow Task Force (3:07)

Follow the Barry Manilow Task Force as they set out to reinstate the concept of style in popular music. Jazzy stuff! I’m really pleased with this one, too. (I’m obviously immune to self-criticism)

3. Eurovisionary (5:11)

Moody instrumental number with whispering voices in the background.

4. I Wanna Sing With My Favorite Band (2:10)

What it says

5. I Want To Tell You I Feel, But I Can’t Find The Words (1:27)

Processed voice, heavy rhythms. My least favorite, but it’s short.

6. We’re Speed-Skating (1:30)

Follow Dan Jansen and the other cool guys as they’re speed-skating through this funky tune.

7. Wolinam Yrrab (3:09)

This is art. ART.

Click on the links to download mp3s. Or you can visit my project page at archive.org artist page at last.fm and stream the entire album.

I had some issues uploading the tracks, but they seem to be playing fine now. Let me know if there’s a problem.