Compilations
"Michael D'Orazio Hits"
"Anti-Pop music"
2010
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1. We are all Gone
2. Hunter(Bjork)
3. Your Funeral My Trial(Nick Cave)
4. There She Goes
5. I Know
6. So Far Away
7. Who I Am
8. Feelin Low
9. You're Alone
10. The Gate Live at Chaplin's
11. I See you Tonight
12. Eclipse
A collection of anti-pop songs, that rebel from convention, and traditional ideas, and
values. Somewhat dark, it has a twist of humor, and hilarity, that will entertain, as well as keep you thinking.
It also frees you from the constraints of what you think is appropriate, and what is deemably valuable
in today's society.
"Michael D'Orazio's Instrumentals":
"Music for the thinking mind"
2010
$15.00
1. Fandango Eternity
2. Longing for Hope
3. Sunny Day
4. A Moment
5. Running Out of Time
6. Blue Light in the Dark
7. Cities at Night
8. Nervous Wreck
9. The End
10. Falling from Grace
11. Transworld Siren
This cd is a collection of experimental instrumentals. It delves deep with gloomy backgrounds, and forms that stimulate individual thought patterns in the human mind. Dim the lights, lay back with a cup of tea, and take a gloomy trip.
Featured Cd's
1. Lonely Boy
2. I See You Tonight
3. So Far Away
4. A Girl I once Knew
5. Night So Dark
6. The Gate(a song about Death)
Songs of Triumph and Despair EP
7. Song of Triumph
8. A Scene from a Car Wreck
9. Hypnotic Snake Charmer
10. Heart Attack
11. Determination of the Soul
Another home recording of some older songs recorded a little different. Also the later half of the cd is instrumentation using the Cuatro. My idea was that I define what "Folk Noir" is, and record an album that is truly morose and disturbing. This cd is a combination of two projects. Hope you like them. "Songs of Triumb and Despair is slightly disturbing, using feedback, and other techniques to create a horrific image.
"Michael D'Orazio's Lament"
"Anti-Climatic ballads"
2010
$15.00
1. Lament
2. Kill Again(lyrics by Slayer)
3. I Can See
4. Night so Dark
5. You, and your daughter
6. The New Age
7. Silence is the sun
"Lament" was a song done in the bedroom, just an improvisation. "Kill Again"(lyrics by Slayer),
"I Can See"(fourth stanza derived from Robert Service's "The Men who don't fit in". "Night so Dark"(a little dittie similar to Tom Waits),
"You, and your daughter"(a song about my experiences with my girlfriend and her daughter. "The New Age"(2010 remake of a bellowing intrumental with background vocals),
Silence is the sun(a song recorded outside during a windy day)
"The Dream Songs"
"Upbeat songs for the critical mind"
2010
$15.00
1. Horses
2. Fool
3. I see something
4. There's no one
5. Trail of Tears
6. It's the way you are
7. Wild Journey(2010)
These set of songs we're written over a period of ten years. Some written long ago, some
written within the course of a year. They all fit very nicely together. I waited to record these songs,
cause I didn't want to publish anything really upbeat, and dramatic. This cd is a nice coda to the long
journey in my life and music.
"Michael D'Orazio: Live at Chaplin's July 3rd, 2009"
"Light at the end of a Dark Tunnel"
2009
$15.00
1. The Gate
2. I See you tonight
3. There she goes
4. Medley: Falling from grace, La, la, la, Eclipse
5. Just one more kiss
6. Sign of the times
7. So Far Away
8. Experiment gone wrong
9. Alone
10. Tears(Burgess)
11. Who I Am
After playing open mic's for nearly two years at Chaplin's music cafe, I was offered a
gig to play one show with another local performer. I was excited that I finally got the chance to play,
and exhibit the music I have been nurturing for nearly 15 years. It was a magical night for me, and I played
better than I ever played before. It was almost like an orgasm, cause I have been saving my energy for a real
show. It's different playing a whole set of songs, compared to playing 2 songs at an open mic. I wish
I had more chances to play whole shows, but I don't know if this will happen. At least I have proof now
that I can do it on my own, and flourish as a solo artist.
"Michael D'Orazio: Live at Chaplin's"
"Pure gloom and doom"
2009
$15.00
1. Intro
2. So Far Away
3. Eclipse
4. Car Crash
5. Count Your Failures
6. There She Goes(alternate version)
7. Sign of the Times
8. You're Alone
9. La, La, La
10. I see you tonight
This cd is a collection of open mic performances recorded at Chaplin's Music Cafe during the
summer of 2008 to January 2009. It is the early performances of most of the songs from "Sign of the Times",
and some early tracks. Very dark times we are in, and the music illustrates this very clearly. I
hope you can witness these songs for they are real. I'd like to thanks the crew at Chaplin's for giving me good sound, and cool effects.
This music is reminscent of most of the early 80's post-punk music that I was into. Very raw, dark, and gloomy.
"Sign of the Times" Remastered
2008, 2009
$15.00
1. Transworld Siren
2. I See you Tonight(Version 2)
3. Just one more Kiss--Dedicated to Katie Lightcap
4. Eclipse
5. Street Sounds
6. La, la, la
7. Sign of the Times Live
8. Eclipse Live
9. Car Crash Live
10. I See You Tonight (Reprise)
A gloomy trip into paranoia, and darkness, "drink wine and shots of liquor, fun fire and merriment, and desire, only I may stand in your way to bliss, but that won't stop me from getting one more kiss". "Somewhere to the eclipse, there is a solitary light, sometime in the spring we can fall on our knees, again". "You better run you better hide, far from this wicked world, they're gonna get you no matter what you do, it's a sign of the times!!"
"Sing-a-Song 2" Remastered
2008, 2009
$15.00
1. Falling from Grace
2. You're Alone
3. The New Age
4. Sorrow
5. Following the Spirit
6. The Gate
7. There She Goes(Cuatro version)
8. Your Funeral My Trial(Cuatro version)
9. Now You Know
10. Never Ending Progress(Featuring Jeff Mastroberti)
11. The Gate Live at Chaplin's
This cd was a compilation of gloomy tracks that we're created to be staged at Chaplin's music cafe in early 2009. It contains an a different version of "There She Goes" and "You're Funeral, my Trial" using the cuatro instead of the guitar. Also it has the early version of "You're Alone" which is a song of rejection of a lonely spirit. I don't know if this is my favorite cd, but it was a stepping stone to a whole different style. It shows my maturity of the drone of the key of "E" on the instrumental "Falling from Grace".
"Kali Ma" Remastered
2007, 2009
$15.00
1. Cities At Night
2. Blue Light In The Dark 2
3. The Wedding
4. Nervous Wreck
5. Wild Journey
6. Mourning the Death/Sharpening the Sword
7. Breaking the Silence
8. Things Looking Up
9. The End
"Kali Ma" is a collection of instrumentals I did using the Cuatro(a puerto rican sort of mandolin). They were improvised as I recorded them. Some of them have a composition, so I can play them live the way they are. The music is has an eastern flavor, but they are not whole hearted traditional music. Some tracks we're inspired from movies such as "Excaliber", or "Last Temptation of Christ".
"Who I Am" Remastered
2006, 2009
$15.00
1. Intro
2. Who I Am
3. Several Sins
(Rowland S. Howard)
4. Feelin Low
5. Sometime Soon
6. Don't Fall
7. We Can Fly
"It isn't safe to walk around here" EP
8. Running Out Of Time
9. Blue Light in the Dark
10. Spooky Place
11. I Know
12. So Far Away..
This cd contains an old song I did called "Who I am". The song explains to me spiritual awakening, and is very sort of rythmic, and tribal. I wrote this in reaction to a book I read, called "Living with Kundalini", by Gopi Krishna. I tried to capture the song as best I could, so enjoy. The rest of the album is a reaction to what someone said about Sing-a-Song.
There wasn't enough upbeat songs. So the rest of the cd is kind of upbeat. I don't know though.
"It isn't safe to walk around here anymore", is a
brooding, spooky trip into a world of apprehension, and
paranoia. This is by far my favorite album. It illustrates my fears
and my paranoid fantasies. When I feel scared I play this, cause
I feel it gives me a little strength in dealing with reality."
"Sing-a-Song" Remastered
2005, 2009
$15.00
1. Space Music
2. Your Funeral My Trial(Nick Cave)
3. Tears(The Chameleons)
4. There She Goes
5. Alone
--Dedicated to Sarah Frizzel
6. Sunny Day
7. Sunshower
8. Downtown
9. Hearts
10. A Girl I Once Knew
11. A Moment
12. Jennifer's Veil(Nick Cave)
13. Sing-a-Song
"Sing-a-Song" is a classic collection of songs. This is me at my best so far, writing
Bowiesque little dittys with the intent of being a little dark, but a little pop at the same time.
The cd matures through time. I appreciate it the more I move on with song writing.
"Suicide" Remastered
2004, 2009
$15.00
1. Fandango Eternity
2. Longing for Hope
3. We are all Gone
4. Hunter(Bjork)
5. We've Got Time(Broadcast)
6. Meditation
7. Christina the Astonishing(Nick Cave)
8. Life is Blowing Away
9. I Know
10. I Miss You
11. Come to Me(Bjork)
12. Deep in the Woods(Nick Cave)
13. Home
14. Lonely Boy
15. Well the World
"Suicide" is the first set of recordings I did on my own. I just started to use
the recorder, and I experimented alot with different recording techniques. Some of the songs
are very trippy, and very delicate. Most of the album is very folky, but in a modern way. I tried to evoke
a certain feeling, and I did suprise myself. One person I met, of whom I gave a cd to, described it as being "captivating".
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"Freak'in Out", Single
1991-1993
$10.00
1. Freak'in Out(Lucid Mix)--Dedicated to Kat Lamb
2. Loonier than Looney
3. Freak'in Out(Stoned Mix)
This is a Cd single contains the title track "Freak'in Out", and
the follow up song "Loonier than Loony". This song was produced by Steve Cluthe. It was inspired by Cypress Hill,
Bjork, Renegade Soundwave, and the old days, driving around toking it up, and
getting into adventures. I used to play this song for my friends while they where stoned, so it became an instant favorite. I am glad I still have a copy of it!!!
"The Burning"
1989-1990
$30.00
1. Burning
2. Fall Girl
3. The Funky Chicken(Vampire Song)
4. H.I.V(industrial version)
5. The Gate
6. Stay
7. A Burning Intro
8. H.I.V(early version)
9. Three Trees
10. To Do
This is a rare recording of a show at Pottgrove high school talent show. (It is
to be noted that this was the first recording that was submitted to our producer before we recorded
the above tracks.)
11. The Burning Live(19:36) minutes
This Cd contains six songs done by the band "The Burning"
in the late eighties. The music is basically post-punk, gothic, and slightly industrial. It is a shame that
the band fizzled out, even before they got started. I wasn't satisfied, and wanted to continue on.
I wish I had the team now to produce my songs, but oh well. (Produced by Ian Cross, and
Scott Bricklin) All songs written by Michael D'Orazio, and Mike Smash, except for track 6.
Track 6 was produced by Steve Cluthe, and a guest appearance on guitar
by Rich Bickell.
Buy my book of lyrics!! From 1989-2008!!
$15.00
I put together this lyric book to commemorate all the writing I since the late
eighties. The work spans from my work with the band called "The Burning", songs I did called
"Freak'in Out", all the songs I wrote from 2004 to 2008. This will be the first volume. I am sure
there will be a second volume in about another ten years. I hope.
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