a quick update...

hey everyone----

just a quick update from the TX half of this collaboration....
lots of stuff going on these days. i've been out of town visiting family & am excited to get back into musicmode. we have one new song that's just about done called "London Dream"---look for that to be released this week! we also have a lot of others that will be getting some attention this week & we hope to release them very soon.

also, THANKS for voting in the little contest we're in! your support means a lot to both of us.

our second record, Life Can Go, is done. we'll be submitting it for copyright in the next week or so. i was able to pick Maura's brain a bit about the direction of the artwork and i can't wait to see what she comes up with!

as always, you can listen to our tunes here....
www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling
www.myspace.com/presentlyfalling

read our blog here...
http://leeandcluthemusic.blogspot.com/

follow us on twitter here....
http://twitter.com/clutheleemusic

and also join our Facebook group here....
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pag ... 9719963329

wow...that's a lot of links!!!
yikes!

happy holidays, everyone. more updates coming soon....

Matt

Unreleased songs and early demo's have been posted!

Hi friends and family out there on the interwebs!

It's been well over a year since Matt and I first started writing/recording together. In that time we've amassed quite a collection of songs that all have some early version or another. Many of these early versions have never been heard by anyone but us. We thought it was high time we shared some and so I raided my iTunes library and sifted through 17.4 hours of music to bring you 12 alternate/unreleased/demo/instrumentals. Some you know, some you don't and some you might have heard at the grocery store last weekend? Go on over to www.reverbnation.com/presentlyfalling and you'll find the songs listed from 1-12 at the top of the song list.

Here We Are (alternate mix)
This one has a different sounding lead guitar to it and Matt's vocals are a bit more immediate. It sounds pretty close to how it sounded when we played it live together in Austin in October.

Fade (unreleased song 2009)
Matt wrote this one and I think we just forgot about it. It's a very aggressive sounding song. The very ending has Matt singing without any accompaniment. We had planned on just having bass playing and Matt singing, but like I said, forgot all about this little beauty! Maybe someday it will resurface and be worked on?

Count Down (alternate early version)
I remember when I first started working on this one and had added a bunch of guitar. Too much in fact. The LP version is very different than this one. Matt's main acoustic track is much more present in this. The guitar solo is also quite different (I can tell at least). Of the 12 put out today, I like this the best. It almost doesn't sound like the song I know too well.

On A Wire (instrumental demo)
When I heard this today I had no idea what it was! It took me a minute or so to realise that this was the first version of On A Wire we did, sans vocals/words. Drumming is different, guitars are different. Almost a completely different song here. I really like this version, but LOVE the finished product much more!

Predicament (slow alternate version)
Matt and I think I may have posted a similar version back awhile ago? This was the one of the very first songs I heard on Matt's MySpace page back in 2008 when I'd first heard of him. This one sounds way different to me. It's a first take from me and I hit a lot of bad notes/chords, including a really really bad guitar solo (sorry guys!).

Blitzkrieg Easter Song (unreleased instrumental)
I had waaaaaay too much fun jacking up the BPM's on the drum loop. It's never been worked on because it's way too fast and has a really bad working title. Hahahaaa!! Written on Easter 2010, and inspired by fluffy white easter bunnies....with mohawks!

Setting Sun (early alternate version)
2nd song Matt and I recorded together last August 2009. This is the original acoustic guitar track from the day I wrote the music. Matt's vocals are stripped back and a bit more raw. Still sounding powerful and amazing as usual though! Back when we were still figuring out how to record all these songs, this was one Matt sung from another room in his house into his Mac's speakers. Has a pretty abrupt, strange ending that shows just how young the song was then. I think this is another one that sounds close to what it sounded like when we played it together live.


Song For A Toadie (unreleased instrumental)
Do I love marching style drum beats? Yep. Ha!! This is a little something I wrote during a cold snowy day last winter if I remember right. After writing it and sending it to Matt and told him it sounded way too much like that really famous Toadies song from the mid-90s. He agreed and so it never went anywhere. Coming back to it today I still am not sure about. Fun to hear and play that main riff-age though! Yeeeah!!

Drift On (alternate guitar heavy version)
One of Matt's beautiful piano ballads. One of my favorite songs he's ever done truthfully. He worked his ass off recording that live piano. The piano is very very special to Matt, Laurel and their families. Matt was so motivated and inspired to get the piano into our music and I'm so glad we went decided in the end to limit the guitars on this song. There's just too much there. Certainly an interesting take to here compared to the finished take.

Untitled April Jam (unreleased instrumental)
Matt wrote this and I honestly don't know why we didn't keep working on it. Sure was fun to jam on though. Just the two of us rocking out.

Rest Is Futile (unreleased instrumental)
Matt wrote this one around the same time as Untitled April Jam. He had fits on this one, though I can't remember over what. I think it might have been over getting a fitting drum loop going? I asked him if I could try my hand at recording the song and this is what I did. It wasn't quite what he was after and so we abandoned it. Another aggressive sounding song for us. The ending cracks me up with the shaker and tambourine. It's all aggressive and then we hop in the Lincoln Continental to funky town. Hahaaa!! Am I having too much fun with this today? Yep :)

New Year's Day Song (unreleased instrumental)
A very very old song I wrote back in 2001 living in Philadelphia. I was happy to be there with my girlfriend, but distressed over too many other things. I wrote it the day I found out that I had been accepted into graduate school. The sounds here reflects the frantic worry and sweet relief that followed. After Matt and I had gotten everything together for "Here We Are" we started gathering up older songs we each had written but hadn't brought to the collaboration yet. This one suffered from demo-itis and got shelved because I wasn't happy with how it turned out. Doesn't sound all that bad now that I'm hearing it ;)

time to record & mix

I'm just about to record some additional vocals for a new song called "London Dream" & thought I'd share a picture with you all. Once these vocals are done, this song moves to the mixing stage. I can't wait to share this song with you all...it holds a very special place in my heart.

See you soon,
Matt

New release Friday!

Happy November everybody!

Chris here, writing from the chilly mid-west to say that two brand new Cluthe/Lee songs have been posted! November is going to be a busy month with new tunes. We plan on releasing a couple more next Friday and possibly 2 more the Friday after that! We've got quite a backlog of songs that we're working through and have decided not to write any new one's until these songs get out to you all.

Brings Me Warmth was written back in August and is another "open D" composition of mine. I seem to favor that tuning for some reason (see "A Harmless Song", "In A Corner"'). I don't know. Just something about the strange-ness of that tuning that appeals to me. I had this song worked up with drums and acoustic guitar and Matt came in and added some amazing guitar work/vocals pretty quickly.

Walking Dead is a very creepy sounding song that was written the week of Halloween. Over our ACL trip Matt gave me a bunch of The Black Keys records to listen to and all October I was hooked. I tried writing a simple little blues tune. Took a very simple approach recording just one guitar track and drums. Matt does the rest! He told me he was very inspired and swept up in all the spookiness of the week and somehow channeled that into his vocals/lyrics/guitar. Listen for the whammy dives he does on the song. The bass line Matt plays is FREAKING AWESOME. Get your headphones on kids and feel the bass!

Both of these tunes are quite different from one another which keeps to the spirit of the Cluthe/Lee method now over a year old! If you're wondering about the pic at the top, it's from the Field Museum in Chicago. I took it last year in late August feeling quite inspired and hyped up over the new musical relationship that had started. I still feel like it is a nice representation of what we've done. Maybe I'm getting too deep here? Ok, anyway! Ha! Quick update on our second record. We've decided to call it "Life Can Go" and will be submitting it for copyright this weekend! Whooo!! Not sure on the time table for digital/physical release, but stay tuned here for news and you'll be the first to know!

Brings Me Warmth (August 2010)
Lee: (music) - Drums, 6 string acoustic
Cluthe: (words) - Vocals, Fender Jazz Bass, Lead Guitar(s)

Walking Dead (October 2010)
Lee: (music) - Drums, Epiphone Les Paul
Cluthe: (words) - Vocals, Fender Jazz Bass, Lead Guitar(s)


Thanks all! We love you and stuff :)

Chris and Matt