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Frogman and Tadpole Babies

By miraclemiles on August 21, 2022 11:59 pm

Beavers really are great builders. They built what appears to be a whole underwater village in a small mountain lake near Twisp, Washington. My brother and I were padding around on the surface above this village earlier this summer. He noticed some fat little tadpoles skittering about us. He said these babies were watched over by a big old frogman down in this huge beaver dam city. I think he's right. We sat for many moments up there, looking for Frogman and watching mayflies and dragonflies stand guard above. We only caught fleeting glimpses. A mysterious ripple here, reeds parting mysteriously over there. I've thought a lot about Frogman since that trip. I think he'd like to come out some nights and get down to some tunes with us humans. As long as the fat little tadpole babies stay safe.
While thinking about Frogman one night, I played some live drums, and some bass, some other sounds. Then Creatures Once partner Monstrosus put down some tasty leads and pads the last time he was in the house. I don't know what Frogman would like to hear on his night's away from Beaver Damn city, but I hope he'd like something like this.

I have some great video of the place, but for now, a gif





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I await the day you can play Frogman this track or even get him to collaborate. Who doesn't want to bop their heads to four minutes of beats like this?

Really captures that "on the water feel"  Then it starts to get pretty funky as it goes.  As a side note, the first song I wrote that I thought was any good at all was called "Frog Boy."  This was like 27 years ago.  I'm thinking maybe he eventually grew up and moved into the beaver dam. 

Nice intro with the bubbly swamp like vibe. The drum with its deep bottom (tabla like?) is really good, it has a lot of body and nice tone. The general funky feel of the track and the weird out there lyrics are just beautiful. This made me laugh. This is lounge music on a Sunday afternoon in the Mos Esley cantina. Featuring the frogman obviously.

such a strange fun groove

i was caught off-guard by the bit of droning darkness that drops right at the end?

hent03 wrote:

I await the day you can play Frogman this track or even get him to collaborate. Who doesn't want to bop their heads to four minutes of beats like this?

That will be a wonderful day! I plan on going back to this lake. I'll have to bring some speakers and go jam with Frogman. I sure like to bop my head to grooves like this. We end up with something like this when jamming kinda often. Glad you do too, thanks!

CosmicCairns wrote:

Really captures that "on the water feel"  Then it starts to get pretty funky as it goes.  As a side note, the first song I wrote that I thought was any good at all was called "Frog Boy."  This was like 27 years ago.  I'm thinking maybe he eventually grew up and moved into the beaver dam.

We had to swim down deep before the funk could truly emerge smile That is awesome you wrote Frog Boy! I was curious about Frog Man's childhood. He mentioned something about there being a song about it, so he didn't feel like re-hashing the past much. Sound like we have the A and B side tracks of our first split 7" release on green vinyl!

Kedbreak136 wrote:

Nice intro with the bubbly swamp like vibe. The drum with its deep bottom (tabla like?) is really good, it has a lot of body and nice tone. The general funky feel of the track and the weird out there lyrics are just beautiful. This made me laugh. This is lounge music on a Sunday afternoon in the Mos Esley cantina. Featuring the frogman obviously.

When I added those bubbling sounds I totally thought "this is what Kedbreak would do", inspired by you! That drum I played with hands during our jam on the Roland Handsonic HPD-15, has some fun sounds, It could have been tabla or one of others in the "Indian" category. It sounded kinda wet, like Frogman might use. Glad it made you laugh, I like getting weird but wanted to be fun here too! Love the Mos Esley thought, I think Frogman can actually travel to space, I'm sure he'll end up jamming there! Thanks for the comment!

wangus wrote:

such a strange fun groove

i was caught off-guard by the bit of droning darkness that drops right at the end?

Yeah it did end up a little strange, not exactly just a straight ahead thing, glad it came across as fun to yah! Yeah I love that drone in the end, was kind of surprise ha. We jammed for like 45 minutes on this, and he played that sound when we got weirder at some point, I liked it so found place to put it. It adds some mystery to the story, sets up the Frogman sequel perhaps??!

Ipaghost wrote:

There's the babies!
Thanks, this Frogman digs it:

Thank you frogman, you the best
really digging this funky tune
- Ebrit

One of my favorite things I heard in a while, love the vocals on this, I want a CD of this psychedelic electronic folk / country / weird / synths type stuff.

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miraclemiles wrote:

When I added those bubbling sounds I totally thought "this is what Kedbreak would do", inspired by you!

haha thank you for that! I would indeed probably have spent a couple of hours looking for swamp sounds and appropriately muddy bubble recordings. smile


Sweet intro but ever cooler break down towards the 1:30 mark.  The drums are so nice too.  A chill track for Mr. Frogmannnnn

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