Since the Fall Equinox, 2005, A Year of Songs has dished up a series of mostly quite informal acoustic recordings of songs written and performed by TK Major — many of them tied to\u00a0microfiction or actual remembrances inspired by the song. Over 400 posts and almost that many original recordings and videos, the AYoS podcasts have had over a half million downloads (using the download statistics at the Internet Archive, where almost all the content is freely available).<\/p>\n
In addition to the highly informal (we like to think of them as amiably sloppy) acoustic versions \u00a0of TK song’s in AYoS, you can find \u00a0some of his finished, ‘studio’ recordings at tkmajor.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n TK Major is also the front man of his own one man band. (Funny how that<\/em>\u00a0works, innit?)\u00a0one blue nine<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>makes what TK likes to call mutant outsider roots pop, a dash of blues, some electronics, a snip of punk sensibility, a whisp of hip hop, and more than a little country. It all makes sense to \u00a0him. \u00a0And, lately, he’s been leaning a little more on the roots factor in the equation… As the \u00a030-somethings would say, desperately trying to reconnect with a youth culture that’s already moved on, he loves him his banjo.<\/p>\n But a man can’t play music all his life… someone’s gotta buy ocean whitefish and tuna pate \u00a0for the kitty. And to that end, TK applies himself to developing sophisticated modern, socially enabled websites for small businesses and organizations as well as for writers, galleries, and artists. You’ll find his day job at\u00a0www.TKMajor.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Other projects by TK Major…<\/p>\n Frippenstein<\/strong> (aka Tranz Azul<\/strong>) — TK’s solo, live, all-improv synth echo loop act, founded in 1991 and active through the 90s. Frippenstein played scores of solo shows but also did a number of performances in\u00a0improvisational\u00a0collaboration with \u00a0Michael Rothmeyer. You can find their \u00a01993 album \u00a0(recorded live with one practice warmup and no outtakes) at their Bandcamp store: rothmeyer-frippenstein.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/strong>. And for a year or two in the mid-90s, TK banded together with his old pals, Caz Camberline (aka Steve Becker) on lap steel, guitar, and clarinet, Ann Dejarnett \u00a0on violin, and the late Kurt Schnyder<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>on percussion, recorder, flutes, and whistles.<\/p>\n The Disintegrators<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was a goof. TK was looking for a project to prod himself into a new round of songwriting and came up with the idea of a concept album<\/em>\u00a0comprised of girl name songs — using the names of the current distaff staff at his favorite local coffee house<\/a>. He called it the Barista \u00a0Cycle. <\/em>He thought it might be fun to return to the music of his youth, and do it in a rock style, even though he was far more into electronica, post-dub, trip hop, and noise pop. That said, by the time he was done, he felt like he really was done<\/em>\u00a0with rock.<\/p>\n Lim\u00f3n\u00a0y Chocolate<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>was intended to be a side effort where TK would channel his more Latin-flavored efforts. Currently, there are only two versions of the same song on their ReverbNation page — but, by all rights, the one blue nine mini-hit “Bebe’s Bossa<\/a>” should have been folded into their\u00a0oeuvre… \u00a0One of these days, TK’s going to get back in that \u00a0Latin groove.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the Fall Equinox, 2005, A Year of Songs has dished up a series of mostly quite informal acoustic recordings of songs written and performed by TK Major — many of them tied to\u00a0microfiction or actual remembrances inspired by the song. Over 400 posts and almost that many original recordings and videos, the AYoS podcasts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"pgc_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":926,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}