November 17, 2017. This is a "demo shrine" from 2005 and backwards (80's, 90's things). It will not be updated, but I keep it online for the fun of it. Had a certain way of vocabulary back in the days.

November 16, 2005. Finally some updated projects. FOR GOODNESS SAKE PEEPS, if you listen to my stuff, pweease visit the button... scroll to the bottom of this page... A dollar from you might mean the world to and lunch for me... =) (old and DEFUNKT)

And, yup. I know this site still looks like crap, but... "the baker's children never get to eat cake and the shoemaker's kid walks barefeet..." I.e. haven't got the time to fix and trix for meself.

Aug 29 , 2004. One more song in The Dungeon.*NEW! The Dungeon!*

Hullo dears!
Thanks for visiting.

So, here are some of my music works for you to hopefully enjoy.
I'm on the verge of redesigning my website, to share different aspects of my (musical) life to all of yah nice folks out there. Hence this somewhat primitive design at present.

If you want to support my work and life (and eats), please scroll down to the bottom of this page. I'm a starving and hard-struggeling musician... ;)

babusjka & william
2004/2005. Lovely dude. We've done some weird songs I really love together, with him on the guitar & bass guitar, me on old, by now cult, synths. Plus sometimes me on lyrics, sometimes him on lyrics, sometimes me on lead and sometimes him on lead. And other weird stuff on top. Etc.
His site can be found (NOW DEFUNKT 2017) >>here<<

Two of our songs, with my lyrics and melodies:

Swimming like Ester (2005. Esther Williams, being the supreme golden glittery mermaid from the "good old days" of Hollywood, made a perfect picture for me of how to survive when everything seems like bottomless dark water. A silly song of both sadness and hope and a feeling of "everything will be alright in the end".)
MadMad (2004. Inspired by the life situation of a dear friend of a dear friend. Someone who doesn't feel well at all, but refuses to admit it.)

Recently he helped me in the making of a cover for my childhood friend, a beautiful girl who lives far away and who I miss very much:

Come In From The Rain (Written by Carole Bayer Sager & Melissa Manchester.)


babusjka & yabby dread
2005. Cool guy. Got a wonderful song idea from him - wrote lyrics, melody and harmonies on top.

Evolve/LoveU (What we all want, huh? No??)

babusjka & tublenco/batu
Project 2003/2004, click >>here<< as it's got a separate site.
Extremely gifted film maker and music arranger tublenco plus my melodies, choir arrangements and lyrics. All demos recorded at home. He sent snipplets of wonderful music ideas through the net, I rearranged the arrangement details in Cubase and wrote/recorded melodies/lyrics on top.

Three more tunes not published on the separate batu site here:
Generosity
Drop The Bomb (little version)
Drop The Bomb (big version - unfinished rawmix)

Other lovely weirdnesses from tublenco can be found on his site (NOW DEFUNKT) >>here<<

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I've decided to put some more unfinished and older works/demos out, just for the heck of it. :) In chronological order, sort of... (leaving really old 70's-80's stuff behind to save humanity...)

babusjka & joseph

Women Are From Venus (collab from 1996 with a very gifted soul man who unfortunately didn't take his enormous musical talent seriously... HE wrote most of the lyrics, I wrote the music/we both arranged it... and you can hear him sing the second half of the first verse + backing vocals.)
Get On Up (And Do Your Thang) (Also 1996. My song, lyrics etc. But his groovy touch in the mixing + backing vocals.)


babusjka 4-track
Here are some of my own, old, severely lofi and weird Tascam 4-track demos from 1992, 1997 and 1998. Just me and my Korg M1 (1992) and Kurzweil K2000 (1997-98) synthesizers:

Tamicha's Song (1992. Russian housewife of small crook getting fed up with things... My idea was to record this properly as a balalaika-tango one day...)
Violation (1992. Inspired by a nut I met. Song is about a steel-guitar playing mass murderer who picks up women in his fancy car, kills them when they don't love him as his mother did and then dumps them in the nearest harbour. Yup. I've got the imagination of Stephen King sometimes...)
Junkie (1997. Warning. Nutty song only for hardcore fans of babusjka's weirder sides...)
Kiss When The Ice Comes (1998. About trying to see the bright things in life even when it hurts like walking on broken glass...)
Star Trick (1998. hehe... about laziness/pretentiousness/fear... not dealing with things, expecting someone else to solve and serve all fantasticizmo solutions on a silver plate, and studying one's pedicured toenails meanwhile... From today onwards dedicated to Jack, one of my bestest and most intelligent friends ever, who reads me and life per se as an open book.)
Send Me An Angel
(1998. Grief after my father died - and my relationship broke down at the same time... my voice was a bit weak at that point.)

sugarland
Here is another project I did back in 2001, with a friend of mine, Andrew Ellis, London-bound groovy bass player and songwriter. My songs, we collaborated on the arrangements:

Kiss When The Ice Comes (same as above, but with a different arrangement approach, we were thinking "live band/rock act" sort of.)
Trivial Pursuit (TV will save us all when we're down and out! Same song was recorded with my old band back in 1993/94, Carmen Kane.)
Volcano (Written back in 1992... here's the *quite different* original 4 track demo (me and a Korg M1 synth)... Relationships can be like that...)
Snake With A Gun (not my song, my sugarland partner Andrew's, but included in the project. I think this is a great song! Still have no friggin' idea what it's all about though... lol!)

The Dungeon
Other lofi thingies from the 80's/early 90's with borrowed synths and vocals through guitar pedals. Listen only if you're strongwilled.

Frozen Heroes (I knew people even back then who would do anything, including stepping all over their friends and sell their mothers, just to get famous. And if it didn't work they got bitter and angry. Even back then, young as they were in the 80's...)

Awakening (Lovesong for my boyfriend at the time. Hi Kenji! Hope you're ok. :-) )

Vapidity (This one made with my own Korg M1 and vocals through a Shure SM58. No clicktrack of course, no quantize, just realtime playing as the ones above. Early 90's stuff. Was going to kill this one, but what the heck. Just another song about another crushed dream, another broken relationship and the familiar emptiness. Yadda etc. Song was written for a musical project that never happened. Either. (Do I sound bitter? Nah.) :-D

More to come if I dare...

Oh dear Lord. I will put up Stacy. (1982. This might probably be the worst ever recording made by woman. But extremely funny considering the circumstances. This little lovely tune was made due to me having borrowed one of the first 4-track recorders ever - small and horrible, horrible thing that whistled! when trying to "ping-pong" separate takes - i.e. when trying to remix/mix down certain takes in order to get more tracks, a very common thing to do during the good old 4-track days. Anyroad... Here is the first try ever. Sunny day on the floor boards of my tiny livingroom, two giggly friends. One of them hammering my grand piano without really having a clue what he did, the other guy fondling my guitar - with a bit more of a clue of what he did. We didn't have a song. They just improvised. On top of the "DRUM-TRACK" we had made by: putting a plastic container upside-down on the floor, sitting around it, all three of us, counting, beating the plastic container and clapping hands for three minutes. HAHAHAHAHAA... And then their improvisation on top of it while I laughed my butt off. And then ME!! Writing a melody and lyric on-the-go while I sang - and then another vocal take on top. I still haven't got a clue what it's all about. But oh. How I wish life was that simple and fun again...) =)

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For new releases and info, stay tuned!

Huggety-hugs,
babusjka