Roymond's Single Servings Podcast

A new song for Song Fight! second verse based on a Les Paul quote in NYTimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/music/14paul.html?_r=1 when you're my age and you know the end is in sight how do you handle it? you live for the moment the...

Cali Punk for Song Fight! Thanks to Billy's Little Trip for the rockin vocals and guitar solo!...

A last minute entry for songfight 12/03/07, written and recorded in 4 hours...start to finish....

First entry for the Purple Reign project, borrowing song titles from the pained rain man for new original works....

This was written for Katya at Oddio Overplay for the 2006 Halloween compilation, Calling All Fiends. You'll find this at track 27. Thanks to Frankie Big Face for the fabulous sax tracks! There's also a glass harmonica (tuned wine glasses)...

Written years ago under very different circumstances and festering ever since....

My first collaboration as a part of x-tokyo-river-god for songfight. Lyric by Anti-M. Keyboards and drum/bass loops by roymond. Guitars by Noah....

Spirit in the sky......

My first Song Fight win in a long while :) With only 4 hours in all spent to get this done by deadline, perhaps I can return to clean this up a bit, but listening through my SONY 7506s, our...

Well, Jason heard me recording for a Song Skirmish (a crazy thing where we have one hour to write and record a song) with this title, and he started singing his own. He asked me to record him and after...

Another Songfight entry, my first in months!...

Written for Songfight! in response to hurricane Katrina's attack on New Orleans. I can't put myself in the situation that so many people now find themselves in. I can only dwell on the prospects of rebuilding a community that is...

This was for the Songfight Live-Boston 2005 event, and Hoblit, Ken, Frankie and Fluffy gave great backing on short notice. Awesome! Once the live recording is available it'll be linked here. Meanwhile, here's a studio version I did for the...

This is for Erik's teachers and therapists, to thank them for the great work they've done over the years. It uses lots of "Erik-isms" and tries to highlight the role these people have played in his (and our) life. He's...

Leaning on some trance-like long delays on the guitar and bouncing alligator clips on the strings, I was going for elusive foreign textures that the South Pacific evokes. Well, not literally, but turning a friend's operatic voice backwards and doubling it for the break brought the needed "foreign" vocal flare to round out the arrangement.