Discography

This album is the culmination of musical styles that has been brewing in my head for several years, and in a lot of was, a sort of opus.

The concept was to simply take all my favorite musical sounds, and put them together: marching band drums, tribal rhythms, slap bass, overdriven electric lead guitar, banjo, french horns, ocarina (or some flute) and clarinet (or other reedy instruments). All of these instruments were layered on 5-beat phrasing. As the project progressed, I realized it was effectively a new genre, and I decided to call it Baz Hennessy.

If you notice, "Baz Hennessy" has, coincidentally, the same number of letters as "The Universe." From there, I derived the titles of the songs to be symbolic of the evolution of the universe, and in a way, all things. Also, of course, the genre was being born.

Finally, I completed the composition using Sibelius (a music composition software), and mixed them down as well as I could to simulate a live sound. I had to leave out the tribal instruments, because I just don't have a good enough understanding or knowledge of the instruments to make it an effective contribution.

So, the last step is that I am currently looking for an ambitious financier to help me produce the songs (and possibly do some live performances). In this phase, I will attempt to integrate the tribal instruments as well.

Please contact me if you are interested in working on this project! I will only distribute the music via private exchanges (preferably in person). As far as production, I would like to be studio/stage ready by Fall 2012.

After the overwhelmingly obscure success of their debut was-going-to-be-a-complete-album-but-faded-away-into-an-EP rap album, G-Fly Shooky Shooky and G-Straddy Bang Bang have once again taken the world by tropical depression. Their latest stroke of genius is sure to go unnoticed!

I composed and produced two songs for the soundtrack of the film "Legacy Dawn" by Stephen G. Smith

I had this idea to cover the "We Are All Connected" song by John Boswell (Symphony of Science). It was relatively well received, and I got some requests for a better version, so I did it, and I'm considering it a "single."

This album came about as a mutual challenge between Phil Taylor and I. We decided in October 2009 that we needed to each write and record a new album before the first of January 2010. I knew I wouldn't have time for studio production, but I hit the challenge of the writing, and I recorded all the songs acoustically as a podcast. Polished recordings are likely to arise sporadically in the future, but to me the songs really speak for themselves. They are some of my best to date, and they are certainly the best batch of songs written so closely together.

This is another album of which I am very proud. I got quite distracted in the middle of recording it, and have yet to finish, but it contains, in my opinion, my most powerful poetry to date in regards to finding happiness and quashing ones inner demons -- dealing with one's raw self.

This is a "White Boy Rap" EP that Phil Taylor and I did in 2006. It is intended to be humorous (obviously) and was originally going to be a larger album/project, but it kind of got abandoned. However, we still managed to get three awesome tracks out of it. Perhaps the future holds expansion projects of this particular brand of awesomeness ...

By far my first cohesive "album." The combination of lyrical poetry and non-standard timings combined with the balance of anthropomorphic philosophy came together quite well and is seasoned perfectly with the musical performances. I did not spend enough time recording and mixing however, so the delivery really kills a lot of it. Perhaps one day I'll make that perfect recording.

The second, darker half of my first major attempt at a themed album. Hell addresses the art of existence more from the perspective of death and dying.

The first half of my first major attempt at a themed album. While the album itself is deeply philosophical in the art of existence, "Heaven" generally addresses it from the perspective of life and living.

Generally received as my most personal and intimate album, I would venture because it's largely acoustic. This was my second album, and it really shows my growth as a songwriter. The title "Triad" is an homage to the common type of chord employed by Dave Matthews, one of my stronger influences of the time.

This was my first album. As I learned to play guitar, I felt the constant need to have tracks to practice lead to, thus I started writing songs. I felt the internal calling to write words/poetry as well, but finding the place to start was difficult.I eventually decided to regurgitate my raw thoughts, and just deal with what came out, hence the title. The concept of an "album" came about from the nascent "mp3.com" which gave me the ability to upload tracks, then publish an album. Effectively, this album contains the first 14 songs I ever wrote.While my recording and writing techniques were far from mature at this point, there are some great songs and fantastic moments within, although it is difficult for me to listen to the original recordings anymore.

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