NaSoAlMo 2007: Meta Songs
2007
by The Novemberists [solo alias]
Songwriter, Performer, Producer, Sound Mixer, Recordist, MasteringPiano, Organ, Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocal, Percussion, Bass, Electric Guitar, Drums, Backing Vocals, Live Take Recording![](https://cdn.toddgehman.com/album/9/album-9.33.thumb.png)
National Solo Album Month (NaSoAlMo) is an online community challenging solo musicians to write and record enough songs to reach a running time of 29:09 during the month of November.
Because I find this extreme time limitation fruitful for creative focus, I also choose a lyrical album theme to strictly follow for each year's songs.
I'd started learning the drums in 2007, so I incorporated them into my NaSoAlMo stuff this year. Which means I tried a few rock songs too. I had a lot more fun at it this year and this is probably my favorite of the first three fake records I made. These are "Meta Songs" in that they're all about the process of writing and recording an album by yourself in one month.
Track listing:
- Number One Rock Song [home demo]
- Sixteen Minutes [home demo]
- Fast Food Blues [home demo]
- B.C. Runner[home demo]
- Enunciation Breakdown [home demo]
- Brain Eats Heart[home demo]
- Cousin[home demo]
- Having Hadn't Had[home demo]
- Rhyme with Orange [home demo]
- Fifty Ways[home demo]
- I Won't Crack[home demo]
- What the Devil[home demo]
- Taking it On[home demo]
- Out of Ideas[home demo]
- Twenty-Third Day [home demo]
- Down to the Wire[home demo]
- November is Over[home demo]
- Next Halloween [home demo]