Hello!!!
Glad you could stop by. There's a pretty good collection of songs I've recorded in roughly chronological order including my two albums and some demos here - enjoy enjoy enjoy! Oh yea...see that arrow at the bottom left of your page? if you click on it, a mini music player pops out and you can fast forward, rewind, play and pause through all the songs on this page...I think it's kind of neat (thanks yahoo)
Cheers,
Keith
My First Guitar...(awwwww)
My parents came over to visit a couple of weeks ago, and my mom brought this reciept - she found it in one of her dresser drawers. It's the receipt from the guitar that I got for Christmas that year (1979). I was 9 years old, and this was my first guitar. I don't think Ken's is still in business, but I still have the guitar and that's me playing it in Washington Square NYC in 1993.
You can buy my 2 cd's right from here - the store is run by CDbaby which is pretty much the greatest thing to ever happen to indie artists - CDbaby was instrumental in getting unknown artists represented on iTunes and other online stores. They sell CD's or digital downloads. You can also buy my stuff on iTunes (search for "city so cold" to find my first album)
Words and Music by Keith Jolie Recorded at Euphonic Sound in Toronto, James Pew was the producer. Featuring: Minas Hatzigiannatzoglou on Drums, Steve Cave on Bass, Paul Butters on Guitars and backing vocals, Matthew Bartram on Keyboards and backing vocals. |
Some of these songs morphed into Endsville Songs, and some of them haven't been put into the wild until now...enjoy, and again BIG emphasis on DEMO ....these are really rough recordings done on an old laptop when I was living in Calgary for the most part, |
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The recordings attached to this one are exactly what they say - demos...full of mistakes (and some really cool moments if I do say so myself). Enjoy - some of these songs will be recorded again, and I'm even thinking of actually recording this album (note that the track listing wasn't complete. For instance 9.5 doesn't appear on the track titles...but it appears between track 9 and 10...thus...9.5) |
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The Hostage Demo (2001)
This was recorded at NoiseFloor Studios in Brantford - During the first half of the recording, the studio was located in the basement below Alonzo's Music Store on Market (what is now the bar "2 doors down") - about half way through the recording, John and Darcy moved into fancy new digs out on the other side of town. They are still in business as Ball Media, but the recording studio is a thing of the past. Incidentally Bartender Song is my most popular download on iTunes (and Ottawa is my most listened to song on Last.fm) |
I recorded this one on a tascam 4 track and admittedly put WAY too much reverb on it - I also must have been kind of forlorn or something...not too many happy songs on it. The coolest story about this recording is that I went to Whistler BC once to visit Gary and by the time I got there, there were a bunch of people that knew all the words to my songs - That was the first time I had the awesome experience of my music touching people that I didn't know. I need to get a tape deck hooked up to my computer and get this up on the site. (you'll notice I re-purposed the art from the first tape for Songs from a black notebook) |
"Songs From A Black Notebook" (1995)
The drawing is the original album art created by Gary Thomas for
my first recording entitled "The Turn". I don't have any of the
original recordings and so the mp3s that I've attached here are ripped
off of a cassette - as a result the quality isn't very good, but you'll
get the idea of what I was up to in around 1993. One of my favourite bands at the time was The Tea Party...can you tell when you listen to Pay the Piper? I so wanted to be Jeff Martin.... |
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"The Turn" (1993) 