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I (Allison Stanley) began posting Little Fires songs when I moved from Chicago to Ann Arbor on New Years Day of 06. At the time I had sold off or left my recording equipment behind, and with me had very few instruments. Little Fires began as a project about musical sketching, and seems to have become more like an experiment in recording.

 

Summer 2008’s song thus far is a description of squinting, called reminder

words under an idle tongue mp3


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Spring’s (2008) songs are called city hours.

static melody mp3
treat it like a blank stare mp3 [sounds best on the iPhone. from protools to aiff to mp3 to the server - you may need to eq the bass if using a real speaker set-up]


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Winter’s (2008) songs are called meltdown. Trying my ears at some fancier recording.


an early january guitar song mp3
emmanual mp3
an instrument not played in a long while mp3

 

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Fall’s (2007) songs are called a quiet falls in the other room. Most of dont stop now was actually recorded over a year ago, but I finished it this autumn. I am no longer using just the computer mic to record.


don’t stop now mp3 (a cover by Guided By Voices, an ode to Neutral Milk Hotel)
notes on a reading I was supposed to have completed mp3
The Cheat mp3
if we stay we’ll never know mp3


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Summer’s (2007) songs were recorded with the lone computer mic per usual.

A song for people that make machines that make things
if i felt it too mp3
interruption mp3


[as - piano, toy piano, violin, air piano, guitar, drums, singing, toy saxophone]

Words to if i felt it too


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Winter’s (2007) song is titled theory radio. I recorded a few songs, but completed only one for this season. It is a cover by built to spill.

theory radio
Liar (for Steve) mp3


[as - wine glasses, bass, toy sax, guitar, ukulele, voice, cymbals, bells, snare drum]


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Autumn’s (2006) record is titled a thousand voices. i recorded this collection like summer’s, simply on a portable computer with its external mic. i haven’t rustled up any new fancy plug ins or microphones. (i finally rigged my bass to play through the stereo. yay)

a thousand voices
old stars mp3
those hairdressers mp3
icicle stream mp3
Fashion House mp3
cold cant find us mp3


[as - snare drum, bass, singing, bells, tambourine and cereal box shaker, clarinet, ukulele]

Words for a thousand voices


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Summer’s (2006) collection of dittys is called dear maudeville, recorded May-July in my apartment with my laptop (no extra mics, plugins or Mbox) You can listen to it here.

dear maudeville,
inkwell mp3
seventy stories mp3
clatter embrace mp3
stepping down mp3
for today mp3
10 summers long mp3


[as - snare drum, wine glasses, clarinet, toy ukulele, pots and pans, singing, various things of sort]

Words for dear maudeville,

 

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