Honest Jams Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ayal Alves, A Walker Spring
What happens when two friends challenge each other to write and record a song every week? Honest Jams.
We share “chance” songs and talk about housecleaning, xylophone club, the “keeper of the Honest Jams lore” and Alan’s classic journal style of an open view into his heart
On episode #69 (nice!) we share “whodunit” songs and talk about the metal to jazz pipeline, lesser sung about liquor types and the early years of taking every gig and figuring it out later
We share rainbow songs and talk about crush-based instrument choice, family as celebrities, rainbow washing, type 1 diabetes & letting the loop be the reward, plus we get public speaking tips!
We share judgy songs and talk about accidentally rewriting Cocomo, impressing the Demoscene, possessing granularity of control and learning jazz forever
We share “gravity” songs and talk about digitizing the family home movie collection, jamming out on the meow mix theme song, showing off to grandpa and learning how to be in a band from a White Zombie article
We share circular songs and chat with Jesse Carsten (Half Shadow) about Looney Tunes Beatles, atonal punk strumming, when your imaginary friend is a whole band and bizarro interior domestic uncanny zones of poetry
We talk about hugging more, partying the same and we write vocals over each other’s instrumental tracks
We share “passenger” inspired songs and talk about cabin life, Menver, Colorado, rich creative inner landscapes and being an excellent roommate
We share 100 bar songs at 100 bpm with 100 lyrics and talk about 100 things we like and how every week a new week is happening
Honest Jams presents: The thrilling conclusion of thoughts and sounds from Walker’s Europe tour with Old Time Relijun 2021, featuring:
Horse snacks, Band Lingo, Poor pronunciation, 5 new tunes, Inner thoughts, WW2, Feuding towns, VR, Shamanic mood, Five star Restaurant reviews, Tropes, Travel cliches, Folkloric Trickster, Unbridled ecstasy, Athletic chillness, Rowing coach, British tv, doorhanger hunks
Honest Jams Presents: Part 1 of thoughts and sounds from Walker’s Europe tour with Old Time Relijun 2021, featuring:
Horse snacks, Band Lingo, Poor pronunciation, 5 new tunes, Inner thoughts, WW2, Feuding towns, VR, Shamanic mood, Five Star Restaurant reviews, Tropes, Travel cliches, Folkloric Trickster, Unbridled Ecstasy, Athletic chillness, Rowing coach, British tv, doorhanger hunks
We share holiday songs and talk about enjoying things six years too late, exercising our Scrooge muscles and how Portland’s true holiday spirit is in the Springtime
We share travel inspired songs and talk about places we like to travel, pandemic touring and pathetic injuries
We share single voice songs and talk about cloud dogs, using words incorrectly and singing alone in the woods
We share soft songs and talk about traveling gospel bands, computer programming, circuitous journeys and the physics of sound turning to heat
We share “afterwards” inspired songs and talk about art as a tool of survival, Suzuki guitar and God hiding dinosaur bones in the ground to trick us
We share philosophy songs and talk about Philly uncles, “I and thou” and selling Gamble’s Greatest karaoke tapes
We share “rewind” inspired songs and talk about songs as spells, recording the radio, primal tapping and jangly, angular atonal stabs
We share songs about life and death and talk about anxiety, grief, the double meaning of tenderness and Walker’s legendary cousin Charlie Engblom
Ayal chats with Pony about simple but difficult needs, Scott’s bass lessons, shambly bullshit and forcing yourself to make quality music
Ayal and Isabeau talk about the unique challenges of the era and Isabeau performs a live song
We share Dolly covers and talk about Little Tiny Tassle Top, whispering about God’s magic and losing your own lookalike contest
We share detail inspired songs and talk about the Linstrument, paralization and furnishing abandoned buildings
We share mother inspired songs and talk about snails, the reason classical music is dying, the mother of vinegar and when music holds you
We share haywire songs and talk about tearing up jack, atonal xylophone and swoopers and bashers
We share bonus inspired songs and talk about Walker Wolves, Portland hip hop and the worst bonus features from films
We share costume inspired songs and talk about ego death, jazz guitar and recording everything you’ve ever written
We dive into archived songs and talk about 90s covers, the deepest man in the world, fear-based mixing and being a vessel of the zeitgeist canon
We share incandescent songs and talk about practice tips, solo sax multiphonics, the heat-anger connection and the pre-internet sexy sax man
We share emotional songs and talk about karaoke tape machines, thorny self sabotage, wild gardens and autofiction
We bang on pots and pans and kick out some Honest Jams and talk about communal living, getting straight “A”s for no reason and list our favorite pots and pans
We share magical songs and talk about escaping suppression, chaos magic and the creatively conscious mortality movement
We share glass inspired songs and talk about Stravinsky’s proto metal, The Armies of the Omnipresent Otserft, Mr. Glass and voltage sag
We participate in the Voltage Flow Synth Residency, share feather inspired songs and talk about the therapeutic properties of synthesizers, disrupting the vortex noise and learn how many birds there are
We share friend inspired songs and talk about Rathskeller shows, the gitjo, an infinity of squares and what Fred Schneider is doing
We share molten inspired songs and talk about critical opalescence, one hit wonders, tortured hunks out for revenge and taking the fear out of creation
We share timeless songs and talk about Ariel’s dumb choices, eschewing tradition and the chode chakra
We share disaster inspired songs and talk about sexy tidal waves, the Boston Molassacre and the natural progression of people being dummies
We share basement inspired songs and talk about the great unsolved problem in songwriting, simmering in your own juices and the vibrational underpinning of matter
We share three unreleased PJWA songs and talk about conflict-based writing, bananaphalactyc shakes and do a few rounds of Band Lingo
We share pastel inspired songs and talk about touring 250 days a year, 90s coffee shop folky rock and the ugliest color in the world
We share songs inspired by triple prompt “stadium, strategic, survivor” and talk about songs as films, popcorn can drums and learning that bass exists
We share songs inspired by Martha’s book, Sorry I Was Gone and talk about replacing burned records, karaoke, dyscalculia and high profile post judges
We share covers of songs not written in English and talk about musical line reading, alchemy and foreign words that have no English equivalent
We share mutated songs and talk about post rock, bandmate trust and glow in the dark cats
We share spooky songs and talk about buttrock, haunted teeth, soft synths and scary movies
We share reality inspired songs and talk about weird tapes, ultimate truths and the nature of reality
We share “interrupt” inspired songs and talk about motocross youth pastors, jamming, Ashtar Command and destroying negative thought
We share “fix” inspired songs and talk about the transmutation of emotion into electrical impulses that move through the air and jolt you in your body
We share nonsensical songs and talk about DIY ethics, honoring imperfections and peanut butter and hot sauce tacos
We share imaginary songs and talk about touring, imaginary friends and 15,000 obtuse parts shoved together
We share ghostwriter inspired songs and talk about battle of the bands, music as therapy and beating back the wilds of infinite possibilities
We pick five notes out of a hat and talk about drinking lithia water, lies our parents told us and grizzled neighborhood cats
We share cover songs using only mouth sounds and talk about fun places to sing, slutty sopranos and singing on DMT
We share our songs and talk about lawyer foreshadowing, not being in merch mood, making songs less special and whether revenge is possible
We share our wildlife inspired audio-things and talk about our favorite trios and what to do with celery
We share our songs and talk about obscure slang, Beverly Hills Cop, rudeboys and extremes
We share our songs and talk about hopeful pessimism, earnest corny pop music, mp3.com and retiring the keytar
We share our co-written song and talk about classic combos, four way coordination, degrees of laziness and losing friends over cereal
bonus songs -
“Tension Span” - Walker
“Politics” - Ayal
We share our songs and talk about the early 80s, consuming songs, fadeout control and “freak off”
We share our songs and talk about classical saxophone, beloved band teachers, strange particles and 30 recorders playing at once
We share our songs and talk about hemisphere integration, binaural beats and our own “baby baby”s
We share our songs and talk about jamming with parents, bass player’s neck, ghost words and unusual drainage systems
We share our songs and talk with puppet friend Bernice about where birds go, Fibonacci, having no time for anxiety and God’s arpeggiators
We share our songs and talk about lightning superpowers, watercolors, squid school and what’s a step below the Bechdel test
Cristina and Emily share highlights and lowlights from the 60 day summer song challenge
We share our stingers for How Did This Get Made and talk about our favorite podcasts and amazing beautiful ideas with dark garbage underneath
bonus song - “C#” - Walker
We share our songs (that we think the other host would write) and talk about imitating eachother and ourselves, keymashing, chasing tones and leery men
bonus song - “Don’t Mind if I Don’t” - Walker
We share our songs and talk about stolen styles, rapid facts, 90s beats and destroying the mystery of song
bonus song “Idiocracy Prequel” - Walker
We share our songs and talk about small towns, musical idols, squashta and enforced fun
We share our songs and talk about made up facts from childhood, experimenting on roommates, dying of sepsis and Robert Anton Wilson
We share our songs and talk about going extinct one person at a time, dance notions, mouth noises and the disorientation of living in the confines of the mortal human body
We share our songs and talk about signature moves, social anxiety, sexual themes and forging your own signature
We share our songs and talk about sinister whispers, modes, the film composer’s friend and sad memory pills
We share our songs and talk about lentil crusaders, Chuck E Cheese lentil pit, double convex optic lenses and trading your life for a bowl of lentils
We share our songs and talk about Buckminster Fuller, going outstairs, belonging to humanity and etch a sketch
bonus song - “Keeper of the Animals” - Walker
We share our songs and talk about choosing kittens, Disney directions, 20 song game and reading a play with your puppet
bonus cat song by Alex Boyce
We share our songs and talk about scream painting, cringe demos, homeschooling and barbershop
We share our songs and talk about lycra, politics for toddlers, jazz hands and using your voice
We share our songs and talk about improv comedy, imposter syndrome, dating musicians and the Artist’s Way
We share our songs and talk with Jaime Lee Hart about old timey sleep talking, trumpet muzzles and singing all day long
We share our songs and talk about loopy things, “set it and forget it”, what makes a riff and the human ear (that discerning bastard)
We share our songs and talk about bad movies, demos vs finals and life advice from The Room
We share our songs and talk about Bach the rockstar, the 27 club of classical music, getting from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence and not failing at being yourself
We share our songs and talk about torturous costumes, flaming trombone suicides, Choro music and keeping perspective
We share our songs from a game we invented and talk about board games, haunted tattoos, fun moves and treasure vs garbage
We share our songs and talk about Go, transhumanism, defining “you” and the fact that we’re all singing when we talk
We share our songs and talk about tree facts, Plantasia, tailoring the education system and corpse flower overhype
We share our songs and talk about our favorite musicals, worthless keyboard patches and being an outlaw
With guest appearance voicework by Stacey Hallal and Kristen Schier
We share our songs and talk about the first dreams we remember capturing vibes, facing nightmares and dongles
We share our cover songs and talk about our favorite covers by others
bonus bass only cover of Rubba song Waystar by Cliff Hayes of Cliff’s Riffs
We share our songs and talk about tennis racket air guitar, existential dread and talking to pets
We split the notes up and share our songs and talk about sunshine, isolation, turning physical knobs and guitar flipping mishaps
We share our songs and talk about enthusiastic sleighbelling, conscious delusions of grandeur, Hermeto Pascoal and take a hair facts quiz
We share our songs and talk with our very first guest about MySpace, talk boys and gaining confidence and we go out in the real world with professor Elena Pasarello
Isabeau Waia'u Walker
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNwTRlJtPU2DufRmLbVfuYw?view_as=subscriber
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EP available on streaming platforms on April 26, 2020
EP Release show on May 9, 2020 at the Alberta Street Pub
We share our lullabies and talk about the lullaby method, terrifying lullabies from around the world, and go out in the real world with Tom Tucker and Laura Frizzell and Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun)
We share our songs and talk about customer service robots, Lord Snappy, leaning in to the trash factor and why it’s embarrassing to sing around but not for other people
Lord Snappy on youtube:
https://youtu.be/VViXFIbJNbk
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HJP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/551670958889950/
We share our songs and talk about early music, Moondog’s slithery rhythms, luke warmie normies and creating without judgement as well as define the term “truth window”
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HJP Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/551670958889950/