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Welcome to the revival of Jake & Haystack with Kiki, Jake and Haystack, for the CD release of “An American Portrait.”
order the CD directly from iTunes!
Jake and Haystack
(via artvilla)
released two CDs:
Jake and Haystack (released under iTunes)
and Right Like It Is (also available for sale at iTunes)...
 They agreed to re-release their material with the addition of Kiki, reading poetry to their music. This led to the release of the CD “An American Portrait.” We have mp3 files of the pieces here (listed in the order they appear on the CD), as well as some instrumentals, vocals tracks, and links to the original poems read in these pieces.
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...on to the performance art:
(these pieces are listed in the order they appear in on the CD)
More Sunrises Than We Should
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 (1:57) |
 instrumental, “Ukelele Sunrise”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“More Than We Should Have,” from 1997) |
Transcribing Scratchings
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| (3:39) |
instrumental, “Chicken Scratchings”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Transcribing Dreams 3,” from 1994) |
Denying It In Court
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| (:31) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Domestic Violence in America,
Nashville, Tennessee” (nose), from 1995) |
the Baby with the Stick
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| (1:29) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Domestic Violence in America,
Nashville, Tennessee” (stick), from 1995) |
Weren’t Even Strings
(Released for online retail sales under the
title “Weren’t Even Married”)
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| (3:23) |
instrumental, “Strings 1”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Weren’t Even Married,” from 1998) |
Because When We Drink
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| (2:19) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Because This Is What We Do,” from 1997) |
Steel Metaphors
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| (2:21) |
instrumental, “Spanish Steel”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Mixing Metaphors,” from 1998) |
Blues at the Poolhall
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| (1:25) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“You Once So Confidently,” from 1989) |
Running from
Slate with Marrow
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| (4:25) |
instrumental, “Bass Runner 1”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Slate and Marrow,” from 1992) |
Listen to the Raining
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| (1:21) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Listen To What You’re Not Hearing,” from 1989) |
Five Strings, Many Forms
(Released for online retail sales under the
title “Death Takes Many Forms”)
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| (5:52) |
instrumental, “Five String Shuffle”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Death Takes Many forms,” from 1998) |
Mandolin Number 136
(Released for online retail sales under the
title “Number 136”)
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| (5:28) |
instrumental, “Mandolin Dreams”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Number 136,” from 1999) |
Making Up The Insane
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| (1:52) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Making Sense Out Of The Insane,” from 1998) |
It’s Right When
He’s Holding my Hand
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| (2:13) |
instrumental, “Right Like It Is”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Holding my Hand,” from 1998) |
The Trouble With Death
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| (1:15) |
| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Conversations, a day of grieving, 1/22/94 two,” from 1994) |
Breaking at the Brooke
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| (1:54) |
instrumental, “Brooke”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“Breaking Their Heart,” from 1992) |
How Do I Explain the Genesis
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| (7:47) |
instrumental, “ Genesis”
from the CD Right Like It Is
If you have difficulty downloading this free instrumental,
you can also order this track through iTunes.
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| (vocals track) |
The original writing
(“How Do I Explain It,” from 1999) |
As an added bonus...
A remix of “Strings 1” (the edited music was reversed and lowered in pitch and tempo) was used for the 6 short poems in the “With/Without You” series.
On CD, these poems flow into one another, but you can anjoy these separate tracks right here.
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(From left to right,
the people photographed on the CD cover include
Kiki, Ariane, Jake, Haystack, Rob and Eugene.
Sara is also in the background image of this web page,
but she does not appear on the CD cover.)
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