I made this video by pointing a camcorder at a CRT TV for video feedback visuals. I edited and overlaid the footage on the computer and mixed some of my hand drawn animations into the glitch visuals.
I made this video by pointing a camcorder at a CRT TV for video feedback visuals. I edited and overlaid the footage on the computer and mixed some of my hand drawn animations into the glitch visuals.
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Written, Performed, and Recorded by Micah Buzan 2009-2015
This is a collection of B–Sides, demos, and alternative versions of songs from "WORD SALAD" and "The Tyranny Of Thoughts". These songs are mostly about the weirdness of having thoughts and feeling emotions. I've been doing animation full time since 2016, so this is the last batch of songs I've recorded as of this writing in 2023.
1 - 0:00 Spark 2 - 3:48 Open Sesame 3 - 7:28 Medicine 4 - 12:21 Not Me (demo) 5 - 17:42 I Think I am an Alien 6 - 21:14 Be Happy 7 - 25:21 Uphill 8 - 26:16 Is This Fake? 9 - 29:31 Thinking Man 10 - 34:04 You Just Can't Know It All 11 - 39:41 Weird World 12 - 45:37 Shapeshifter 13 - 50:30 Insect Voices
1. 0:00 - Phantoms 2. 2:53 - Open Sesame 3. 6:16 - Horus v.s. Set 4. 8:23 - Visions I 5. 11:16 - Visions II 6. 12:45 - Sow the Seed 7. 15:41 - Ignorance is Bliss 8. 21:05 - Falling like Flowers 9. 25:22 - We Live in the Branches 10. 29:38 - Reincarnation I 11. 36:42 - Reincarnation II 12. 37:48 - Nothing 13. 41:14 - Phantoms (reprise)
Art Rock album Inspired by krautrock, video game soundtracks, psychedelic music, and electronic music.
I spent 16 months working on this 13 track album along with a 7 minute animation, both titled “Word Salad” between 2010 & 2011. I was 21 and basically a hermit living in my parent's basement, while all my friends were at college.
It's 6 albums (65 songs) I made between 2008 and 2015.
It also includes art book PDFs with hundreds of never released artwork. I made over 100 album covers for Word Salad and forgot about them until I recently found a box of weird lost drawings from 10 years ago.
The music influences come from art rock, psychedelic rock, electronic, Indie folk, and 16-bit video game soundtracks.
Animation has been my main focus the past 10 years. But I'm getting back into writing music, and your support will help fund my next release: Dream Machine.
An acoustic performance of Open Sesame from my solo album WORD SALAD. The album has influences from art rock, psychedelic rock, 16 bit video game music, and indie folk.
*About Micah Buzan - 6 Album Collection:
It's 6 albums (65 songs) I made between 2008 and 2015.
It also includes art book pdfs with 100's of never before released artwork. I made over 100 album covers for "Word Salad" in 2011, and forgot about them until I recently found a box of weird lost drawings.
The musical style influences come from art rock, psychedelic rock, electronic, indie folk, and 8-16 bit video game music.
Animation has been my main focus the past 10 years.
But I'm getting back into writing music, and your support will help fund my next release: Dream Machine.
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#indierock #electronicmusic #dreampopMicah Buzan - Heal The Weak EP - FULL ALBUMMicah Buzan MUSIC2023-03-16 | Heal The Weak EP written, recorded, and mixed by Micah Buzan (2008). Genres: Art Rock, Acoustic, Indie Rock, Electronic Pop TRACKLIST:
0:00 - Intro 1:12 - Carwreck Ghost 5:32 - Down Came The Cat 9:41 - Reason's Dead 13:20 - Heal the Weak 16:54 - Outro 19:39- Magic Prayer 21:47 - Carwreck Ghost (Acoustic) 25:52 - Job
Mostly recorded during spring break of my senior year in high school.
These are the first songs I incorporated drum machines in.
The song "Heal the Weak" was partly inspired by the Salem Witch trials, which I had just learned about during high school.
Music Genre: Lo-fi, acoustic guitar, Indie rock, indie folk, bedroom pop
Inspirations: Radiohead, Syd Barrett, Nick Cave, Chad VanGaalen, Daniel Johnston
Track-listing (Lyrics in Pinned Comment):
0:00 - Eccentric Insect 4:31 - True to You 7:52 - Television Face 12:33 - Spider in the Pumpkin 18:40 - Citrus Blossom 23:17 - Brains for Cash 28:05 - Water Frog 29:54 - Jenny Come Back 32:39 - Mr. Lying Factory 35:52 - Bridge Under Ground
This solo album is lo-fi. And I mean very, very, lo-fi. I recorded these songs in my parent's basement while I was a senior in high school. So the sound isn't record label quality.
However, I remastered these tracks for this video to make the levels and EQ more listenable. The low end rumble is gone, and I smoothed out some of the high-end digital harshness to make for a more chill and enjoyable listening experience.
These songs are mostly just guitar and vocals, with the occasional keyboard, bass, and mandolin thrown in the mix.
The subject matter includes not knowing how to act around my first girlfriend, anxiety, and the awkwardness of miscommunication. The lyrics lean more abstract than literal, and often are sung from the perspective of a small insect.
I hope you enjoy listening to this album made by my 18 year old self who was experimenting for the first time with writing and recording original songs. There's a joy to making music and a therapeutic quality to the process. I kinda smile in embarrassment at some of this, but I'm also proud of making something from scratch, even if it is at times derivative of my favorite bands.
Please listen to the whole thing to help my watch time on youtube which helps this music channel grow!
Thank you,
- Micah BuzanMicah Buzan - Job - Animated Music VideoMicah Buzan MUSIC2023-02-23 | 2D Animation and song by Micah Buzan
Job - Lyrics:
Is it completely ridiculous for me to ask you for an answer? Something unusual is happening Only in time will you see Only in time will you be freed
You are my faith You are my fear I want you gone I want you near
Where do I go from here? Everyone one I've known has left My body crumbles to the dirt But still my skeleton stands up
You are my faith You are my fear I want you gone I want you near When my hearts cold still you are here Somedays I wish you would disappear
I warned you to know this was in my head all along your company was a dread to be around But sometimes I get lonely and my face turns green It's only when I'm lonely that I'm as free as i can be soon I'll be healing by the stream
Crawling down the buildings from house to house I'm sorry mama for the ugly mouse I am But what am I to do, when my brain is made for soup? What am I to think now that I'm here?
I warned you to know this was in their hands overwhelmed with things to do just to live But sometimes I get lonely and my face turns green It's only when I'm lonely that I'm as free as I can be I"m as free as I can be
Crawling down the buildings from house to house I'm sorry mama for the ugly mouse I am But what am I to do, when my brain is made for soup? What am I to think now that I'm here?
I will drown away the Sun Don't you know I will hide the mouse and run Don't you know? I was never meant to live off the fat of the land It was just another dead dream I had
I've fallen to this place again but it's not like the others She has the face of a pearly gem and the heart like no other But this is what always happens I end up going crazy for nothing over and over again and over again
When it's midnight I think about those eyes that pierce through me and sees through my disguise
Your voice is a pretty song that I try to sing along With the words in my mouth and the instrument in my arms But nothing that I do is able to produce the sound
In mid-conversation I half-brain collapse when you look me in the eye, I get a heart attack it's all good memories until something happens
Give her your wings and fly far away together Show her the ocean she won't be around forever
And when you feel her crying lift her up on your shoulders Like a beautiful angle Just like She's a beautiful angle.
You can't look at life through only one eye there's people all around you they spin you like a dime one at a time one at a time
on the day that I should die I believe that God will take me to my family and friends while my body's left behind on the earth that fades
You can't look at life through only one eye because people will betray you there dropping like flies one at a time
well I'm not flying like you said I would but I'm not preaching like you say I should I spin a web and I'm caught inside was heaven and hell only in my mind?
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LYRICS:
these steps that lead us down will surely bring us up out of the ground we've always been stuck we'll find a wonderland out of this frozen land we've got to get out of this frozen land
And I'll say that I love you when you want me to I may try and hide from you when I don't know what to do
these steps keep bringing us down further in the ground I can't find my way out don't know the way around now the air is getting thick but the light is shining through all the friends you thought you had they were never true to you
And I'll say that I love you when you want me to I may try and hide from you when I don't know what to do
where's the light at the end of the tunnel that you told me about? It's just one tunnel after another and we're going down
ABOUT THIS SONG:
This is the first song I ever wrote with a full set of lyrics when I was 17.
I had my first girlfriend for 3 months and I wrote this song for her.
Our first time hanging out was with her friends going laser tag. While we were in the parking lot, some dudes drove by and threw an ice cream cone at my face. The icecream was dripping down my hair, and my soon to be girlfriend cleaned up my hair and assured me I look great (she was sweet).
Our first date was going bowling. As we were leaving the bowling alley we looked at the stars and talked about how beautiful the night is. After a moment of silence, she asked me "Micah, will you go out with me?"
Wow. She's asking the question. I have to make a decision. She's watching me closely, waiting for a response. I hate doing decisions on the spot and I really don't want to hurt her feelings. My heart is in my throat.
I try to buy some time and say "Could you repeat the question please?"
She says "Will you go out with me? As in, be my boyfriend?"
Oh boy. It's happening.
I lost 10 pounds from stress and not knowing how to be a boyfriend or do boyfriend things. Her friends asking me why I haven't kissed her yet after 3 months of being together (I barely understood the mechanics of hugging the opposite gender).
I couldn't concentrate on anything, my grades started dropping, felt too sick to eat breakfast and couldn't sleep easily. After the first week of being together, I was already writing a 6 page break up note.
The time is coming but I won't be scared the metamorphosis inside my head down from the web to heal again so much confusion so little time to deal with it
The human's brain is poisonous spitting sentences from the mouth I wind up in a conversation that I can't express my own thoughts
In the machine In the machine
I'm just a legless grasshopper wasting away in this paper bag I'm just a legless grasshopper wasting away
I feel to the need to keep on moving my reflection upon the glass there is no door that I can open only stairs will take me down
In the machine In the machine
I'm just a legless grasshopper wasting away in this paper bag I'm just a legless grasshopper wasting away . . .
- About this song:
I was 18 when I made this. A senior in high school and feeling like an insect in a machine.
This song is about the difficulties of communication. I was shy and awkward, and often felt unable to express my self in a real-time conversation.
Do you ever talk to someone and later think of everything you should have said hours after the conversation occurred?
That's kinda what this song is. Feeling like a legless grasshopper that can't jump the way it needs to. Or insect trying to talk to humans, but the humans can't understand.
I was also inspired by Syd Barrett's albums, which expanded my thoughts about songwriting and how he would often have strange instrumental parts that flow like a stream of consciousness. That's where the crazy guitar solo in the end of the song comes from. By crazy guitar solo, I don't mean technically proficient. I mean just playing as fast as I can while trying to play notes that are sort of in tune but more so evocative of an anxiety attack.
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