Hopi Torvald/ Bryan Lewis Saunders Split

http://www.mediafire.com/?e4tf9zv443x24fl

I'm happy to present to you collaboration #3, this time a joint effort between myself and Mr. Bryan Lewis Saunders from sunny Johnson City, Tennessee. Bryan's portion is a result of what he calls "stream of unconsciousness", rambling rivers of verbiage penned under the spell of hypnogogic haziness...sleep talking, friends....My portion on track one is a blend of field recordings and manipulated portions of sonic goodness already existing in Bryan's tracks..with a smidge of violin. On track two, i also threw in some recorder and synth for good measure.

Here is the transcribed text from what Bryan calls "Replicate":

01.
You can bark
And replicate yourself
Or replicate what you
(fart)
Whatever you want
Anywhere
Just not
Here
In one oil park
For 50 cent
For everyone to see it

I eagerly want to be involved with me
But I just end up
Getting in the way

They probably just put zero in the computer
In the machine
Loaded everything up that they need
To start


02.
He's fighting his cue
In about a month or two
Start shopping for opponents

It's a self-loading mechanism
Doesn't need humans anymore
Except to put in input and drive it around
Made Twitter
Has all the stuff for shooting electronic gods
And made Twitter's revenge
As a way
To queet sending
Copies
Of your great th
Things
People are being too modest
Too revealed
Too kind
Too
Spaced out
Too obnoxious with the mouth
Too uh

Right
Woo
Right the Captain did it
yeah
Eh
So funny

Madness
Is a safety tool
A way of protecting the self
From things it can't explain
Things in the outside world
That's why I'm not protected anymore
Not really
Because in the fashion model book
I did everything
Makes sense and comes together
With who I am
And I don't need
Teen
Gun
Violence
To help fill in that picture

Get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?e4tf9zv443x24fl

Hope you dig. And if you do, be sure to check out Bryan's live performances and recorded material, all of which is absolutely phenomenal.

The cover art is a picture taken at the edge of the cemetery at Tubb's Church of Christ, on King's Mill Road in Oakman, Alabama...it's one of those civil war landmark cemeteries and my grandparents Erskine and Flora are buried there. Matthew and i once pushed this bully kid into one of the freshly dug graves.

Love,
Nathan

Hopi Torvald Mix 4

So here's yet another mixtape for your handsome little ears. Once again, just stuff i've been listening to lately. quite a few "long" songs on this one, but relax, gentle listener...chill out and dig. these are all nice tunes for sure.

get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?au117w65wwj9dzd


tracklisting:

1. gary numan - m.e. (i can't stop listening to this 1979 opus...brilliant)
2. brenda lee - if you love me (really love me)
3. two gospel keys - i don't feel at home in this world anymore
4. able talismans - what was that thing (makes me want to do a new zealand mix..maybe next time)
5. sun city girls - space prophet dogon
6. jacques loussier - generique fin
7. sun ra - satellites are spinning
8. pierre bastien - omajosafir
9. tara jane oneil - howl (first lesbian crush i ever had...she's so amazing. anytime i've chatted with her, i've turned into a blushing blabbering idiot..haha)
10. the homosexuals - neutron lover
11. wire - ex-lion tamer
12. the who - tattoo (been sorta entertaining getting one...had to put this song on here)
13. lo borges - nao foi nada
14. francoise hardy - voila
15. guided by voices - i am a tree
16. tinirawan - oualiha ar tesninam
17. jimmy scott - how deep is the ocean (if you don't know who jimmy scott is, YES, that's a male singing..awesome)
18. the high llamas - track goes by

Hopi Torvald/Single Mothers Split

Here's collaboration #2! This time around, it's a joint effort between myself and my friend Woodruff, aka Single Mothers. He gave me a haunting whispery guitar and vocal track which i HT'd into a bleary racket (track 1) and i sent him a dark synth dirge which he turned into something really beautifully sinister indeed (track 2). i think the songs make for a neat little couplet.

get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?5r1g706vfd1d3h2

thanks, woody!

enjoy! and you cat's keep those tracks coming my way for more collabs!

love,
nathan

Hopi Torvald Mix 3

this time, it's a metal mix.

get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?x6cju0en49p00qo

tracklisting:

1. gnaw their tongues - knife...martyr...despair
2. horna - wikinger
3. volahn - uno con kaos
4. de magia veterum - lifting the bridal veil from misantrophy
5. underjordiska - perished in tragic emotion
6. code - the rattle of black teeth
7. leviathan - massive conspiracy against all life
8. mouth of the architect - buried hopes
9. ophiuchus - fallen statues of virtue
10. coldworld - hymn to eternal frost
11. aderlating - rope, pig's blood, dead flesh and two candles
12. alcest - ecailes de lune (part II)
13. necrofrost - steel forests of my deserted dreams
14. enslaved - ground
15. ayat - the fine art of arroganc, pt. 1 (the icon and the cattle)
16. book of sand - crawling through sand, crawling through earth
17. fen - a witness to the passing of aeons
18. lurker of chalice - this blood falls as mortal pt. III

let me know what's been in YOUR ears lately.
again, if anyone has an issue with any of these songs being up, let me know and i'll take them down.

enjoy!
love,
nathan

Hopi Torvald / Magicicada Split

This is the result of a collaboration between myself and the dashing Mr. Chris White. He sent me a track and i added my two cents (song 1). I sent him a track and he fudded it silly (track 2). Download it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?mizvzn1vzyj

Thanks, Magicicada. I love what you do!

enjoy.

love,
nathan

Hopi Torvald Mix 2

Here is yet another mix of some stuff that's been filling my ears with happy times lately...this one was compiled under sleeeeeepy conditions late last night so it may tend to ramble a bit. regardless, it's all good stuff for sure.

get it here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?rym0nlm1mfi

tracklisting:
1. alice coltrane - journey In satchidananda
2. bailter space - the w
3. skeleton crew - dead sleep
4. dara puspita - burung kaga tua
5. nath family - sounds of the indian snake charmer
6. thinking fellers union local 282 - hurricane
7. bobby hutcherson - west 22nd street theme
8. jacula - soul satan
9. the bats - made up in blue
10. vinicius de moraes and baden powell - bocoche
11. bark psychosis - absent friend
12. xtc - roads girdle the globe
13. the better automatic - lunch money
14. kopernik - man, myth and magic
15. dna - not moving
16. uz jme doma - pot
17. terry callier - dancing girl
18. charles mingus - the shoes of the fisherman's wife

again, if anyone has any issues with any of this being posted, let me know and i'll delete.

let me know what's been in YOUR ears!

Collaboration Project

so i have a new party planned and everyone's invited! i want to do 9 minute collaborations with whoever has the gumption. the deal is, i'll send you a 4 1/2 minute track and you provide me with the same. i'll add to yours and you to mine and i'll post the resulting 2 song opus right here. and you can do whatever you want to with it. the point is to collaborate and bathe in the resulting serendipitous sonic pool! so send me your tracks or send me your contact info and i'll send one to YOU.

squidskid@gmail.com or simply post a link as a comment on this page.

i look forward to whatever comes out of this!