Enjoy!

Most Recent Songs

Breezes 

First jam of 2008, cool blues and lots of improv (it was all improvised!)

Matt Vick: electric guitar, bass, electric piano, tenor saxophone

A Perspective in Retrograde 

Thickly arranged instruments doing whatever they please, whenever they please.

Matt Vick: electric guitars, acoustic guitar, bass, organ

Zach Vick: electric drums

Harmony and Texture

Duet 

Intermingling bass clarinets over sparse guitar and flippant bass.

Matt Vick: electric guitar, bass, bass clarinets, percussion

Molten 

Amazing chordal canon with accidental polyrhythmic tendencies.

Matt Vick: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, organ, clarinets, tenor saxophone

Zach Vick: percussion

The Jams

The Curtis-Vick Odyssey - Funk 69 

I...

Steve Curtis: bass 

Matt Vick: tenor saxophone

Zach Vick: drums

The Curtis-Vick Odyssey - Oil Biproduct Excellence 

...Love...

Steve Curtis: bass 

Matt Vick: baritone saxophone

Zach Vick: drums

The Curtis-Vick Odyssey - Pure Insanity 

...Bass Chords!

Steve Curtis: bass 

Matt Vick: tenor saxophone

Zach Vick: drums

The Lorax Rock Opera

The Lorax Rock Opera - The Barbaloots and the Lorax 

Recorded at a time when I couldn't really play the guitar, play the organ, sing, or compose.  At least I left the lyrics to a professional.

Matt Vick: electric guitar, bass, organ, drums, (attempted) vocals

Dr. Seuss: lyrics

The Lorax Rock Opera - The Onceler Family and the Return of the Lorax 

Listen to that guitar solo!  It's almost as good as Santana (we both exclusively use the pentatonic scale!)

Matt Vick: electric guitar, bass, organ, drums, vocals

Dr. Seuss: lyrics

The Lorax Rock Opera - The Last Truffula and the Future 

Flanger!

Matt Vick: electric guitar, bass, organ, drums, (attempted) vocals

Dr. Seuss: lyrics

The Kazoo

Phantom Of The Opera 

Imagine trying to play a song using a toy guitar as your tuning standard.

Matt Vick: kazoos, toy guitar

Also Sprach Zarathustra 

Kazoo harmonies are difficult, especially moving harmonies.

Matt Vick: kazoos

Crossfire 

I'm sorry SRV...

Matt Vick: kazoos, rubber band, vocals

Other

Put Down The Fork 

A lounge piano must have been dropped in a cave with a microphone.

Matt Vick: piano

Aim to Please (edit) 

What was once a bad song with cool parts is now a (slightly) improved cut and paste job.

Matt Vick: electric guitars, bass, organ, tenor saxophone, drums