Here you'll find hours of original music that I've composed over the years, in a mix of styles and performed by some of the finest musicians to convert riffs into bits.

All files are DRM-free MP3's. Enjoy!

from DUPLEX

In 2005 I produced my first full-length musical, Duplex. I'm spending the rest of 2007 working on the soundtrack album, but here's a taste to tide you over until it comes out, just in time for this Holiday Season!

Get Anywhere - from Duplex, recorded for Christmas Cookies 2003.

LOS ENCENDIDOS - 2003-2005

Sweltering latin-punk six-pack

El Cancion de Mariachi - Los Lobos cover
Shake Your Ass - mutated rock / hack-latin dance number
Sway - sultry Perez Prado mambo
A New Reason - bossa nova love song
El Cuarto de Tula - from the "Buena Vista Social Club" record
Nothing Left to Lose - swami rock

THE ENABLERS - 2002 to 2005

Shit-Tastic - alterna-pop-punk, big hooks
A Way That's Me - modern R&B, excellent vocals
Roxy Roxy Roxy - window-punching punk-rock mania!
Tongue-Tied - exhilerated speed-ballad
Who Sent You? - triptacular lilty flavor
Under Your Spell - slow jazz ballad

with Chris Thompson - 2002 to 2004

Holding On - moody pop-rock, great vocals!
Snow - non-denominational holiday number
Real - REMIX - moody folk

Visit www.cmthompson.com for more from Chris & Meredith Thompson

NERO & PEDRO - 2001 to present

Peter & Sully bust out the acoustics and wax delirious

Fear of Lobster - groovy story song
I Live With A Band - trippy folky stomp
Sammich! - our plea for immortality on Dr. Demento
Ramblin' Gamblin Man - punkabilly
Lifer - throw the goat!!
Sad Things - slow folky latin

THE HACKS!

Recorded in 2000, here's the EP of neophyte jazz legends, THE HACKS, led by Josh Tobin, with me on bass, Dave DeSimone on drums, Brian Worobey on alto, and Tobin on soprano sax. Hear the legends that never were and revel in the hackery!

Like Bill
Junk Rush
Brian's Blues
Hollywood Warpath
For Jack
Lovers' Dance

LUCKYDOG - 1998-2000

Rollicking beerhall blasters, I wrote songs and played bass & keys in this offshoot of Dabble.

LIVE - New Years Eve 1998
XMas Lites - swing-rock anti-christmas song
All About Me - latin-rock
Zipper Lane - eruptive swing ode to the Southeast Expressway
Thong - grungy rock
Toast - country rock

In rehearsal

You're Wrong - 50's doo-wop about sibling rivalry
House of Cards - country rock

DABBLE - 1996-1998

Loopy genre-jumping jam rock quartet with me on bass, keys and vocals

From Anasthaesia Romanov
Goin' to Gibraltar - calypso punkabilly
Toolbox - disco grindhouse
My Ship - slow rock blues
She's Weird - loopy trip-salsa
Super Blue-Green Algae - enervated slamgrass
Squirm - languid starcrossed shoot-up music

ELECTRIC NOODLE FACTORY - 1992-1995

Mama's Got - college rock jam-reggae

IMPROV ASYLUM - 1999-2003

I was musical director and musical improviser for this wonderful trouple of improv comedians, and composed pieces such as those below for the award-winning comedy pieces that still liven up the North End of Boston.

Let's Make Love Tonight - country love song for the terrorism age

From the sketch "Study Date":
Outweigh Your Hate
Love Trap
Nice Try

FILM MUSIC

From the short file At it Again, competitior in the 2005 Boston 48 Hour Film Festival.

They're At it Again
What Are You Looking At?
Something That We Never Had Before
End Titles

From the short film Sweeter by Far, winner of Best Original Score, and recognized in the Top 10 of Boston in the 2004 48 Hour Film Festival.

If I Could Have You
Sweeter by Far
I Don't Need You
End Titles

Tinman
Theme from "Let Nothing You Dismay"
Him and Her - from "Let Nothing You Dismay"
Push My Buttons
Theme from "Coolidge Corner"

THEATER & MULTIMEDIA

Baby You Don't Care - from An Evening of Israel Horovitz
Traps - minimalist mood music
Hannukah Whore - Jewish MTV pop
Suite from "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
Baby Bratt
Philomel with Melody - calypso Shakespeare
Theme from "Ensemble" CD-ROM for the Interface Group

ASSORTED HOLIDAY SONGS

Snow - non-denominational holiday number
Jewish Christmas - with the Cello Chix!
XMas Lites - swing-rock anti-christmas song
Wish the World Away

OTHER DEMOS
Outer Spiral Arm
Blending In
Dreamland
Rock the Congregation
Waiting Man
Pleasin' You
Mattress Fire
State of Cain

Emily Degraff demos - produced spring & summer 2004