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Download the full album, S+G, from chilljam.com.
Our most recent release and the last of these archived album free downloads, S+G is the beginning of some work we were putting together for a film that Neil scripted. We began filming the work but ran into some technical issues that delayed our progress on it. However, we thought it was still worthwhile to release some of the music we’d put together for the soundtrack into this short EP.

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1 Go to the S+G Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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 And/Spider [8:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (42)

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This piece is actually two songs in one with the first part being a remix of a previous posting by Joe called And. It starts out with a slow blues riff on the rhodes added to some nice spoken word.  The drums kick in during the second song, Spider, where Joe tells the story of the creepy crawly critter. 

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Download the full album, Static, from chilljam.com.
Static is the most recent full length release that we’ve compiled as chilljam. Primarily consisting of jammed out journeys in sound, Static is a great collection of some of our most consistent instrumental material to date. Most specifically, however, Static marks some of the last songs we were mixing down primarily with Audacity. Shortly after this, we started recording and mixing the majority of our songs on Apple Mac machines using Garageband. However, because of the difference in how the software works, there are different elements of control that each type of software concentrated on so this led to differing sounds in the end products.
Audacity, in the mixing process allows for a much more segmented mixing process, so that we were able to choose very small segments of individual instruments and tweak them. This led to some interesting sonic layers, which you can hear in a lot of the works here. Additionally, the reverbs and effects in Audacity have a much more analog feel to them, often sounding as if you’re listening to the songs off a cassette tape.

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1 Go to the Static Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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 Fog Road [4:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (28)

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So this is the last posting from our outside jam session by the fire.  We had some great recordings from this session. The combination of wine, cigars, and a chiminea makes for a relaxing evening.  This bass driven jam features some nice vocals and a djembe that carries you through the foggy hills.

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 Streetlights on Asphalt [6:05m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (26)

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The streetlights kept gleaming on the black asphalt.
Recorded during the same session as Imagine and Strawberry Fields Forever, Streetlights on Asphalt is an original song done during the set. Jeremy and Neil have a solid groove line going on here. It’s impossible not to bob your head to it as you’re listening.
With the lyrics, I went with a straight spoken word style, very similar in style to Jack Kerouac’s delivery on his musical pieces.
Each segment is broken into separate slice-of-life urban stories. Each character is briefly described ending with his/her fate and then separated by the chorus line to hook it all together.

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Check out Tourist Zero’s take on The Lost Cymbal.
Our friends from Tourist Zero layered some great vocals on top of the chilljam.com version of The Lost Cymbal. Check it out here.

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Check out Tourist Zero’s take on Opium Spice.
Our friends from Tourist Zero layered some great vocals on top of the chilljam.com version of Opium Spice. Check it out here.

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Download Cover Band from chilljam.com.
One day, while we were playing in Neil’s loft, I noticed some lyrics on the floor for The Grateful Dead’s Brokedown Palace. I guess someone was jamming on the song with Neil at some point. While Jeremy, Neil and Jim were jamming on something, I decided to pick up the lyrics and just sing along to what they were playing using the lyrics. It worked out well and spurred us into trying some songs by other artists. We didn’t try to play the original song in music, but often, I’d listen to what everyone was playing and just look up the lyrics for something I thought would work on my iPhone.

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1 Go to the The Flame Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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Blackbird – An a cappella cover of the Beatles song by chilljam.com
Continuing on our Beatles kick, we’ve got an a cappella cover of the Beatles song Blackbird. Last weekend, we didn’t get together to jam as Jeremy is out of town. However, I ended up not being able to sleep later that night and decided to work on a version of Blackbird that we were toying with several weeks ago while hanging out on my deck.

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Download the full album, The Flame, from chilljam.com.
Space Explorer might be my favorite “album”, but the title track from The Flame is my favorite single recording-even when I listen to it now I am surprised that it was entirely improvised (like just about everything we do-but this particular song really sounds pre-meditated).  At the time of recording this collection of songs Joe was playing bass most of the time, so there is less guitar, and the keyboards are really the focus.  Joe’s bass playing is solid, and really helps my drumming too.  This album is primarily instrumental, great music for headphones, since there is often a lot going on you won’t pick up otherwise. 

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1 Go to the The Flame Listen :: Album page.
2 Scroll down past the player and you’ll see a link labelled “Download this Album”.
3 Simply click on this link and the album is yours, complete with the album artwork.

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