FREE SOUND THINGIES

Yaaar, ye pirating scaliwags. Here be some free downloads of booty from me solo high-sea adventures and with others if my ilk, and If ye like what ye hear, maties, then....then...ah hell, that's about as long as I can keep up this pirate crap.

Joe Rut
Jelly Donut (Unreleased)
Hamster Wheel Head (Injured While Faking Own Death)
Dosey Doe (Injured While Faking Own Death)
Filter (Genuine Wood Grained Finish)
So Long Lazy Ray (Genuine Wood Grained Finish)
Der Uber Monkey (Stop-Gap Measure)
Tall Tim's Formica Whistlepig (All Music Is Folk Music...)
Rhinoceros (All Music Is Folk Music...)

w/ Loretta Lynch, from the CD "Loretta Lynch"
Our Days are Numbered

Joe Rut
Live at Epic Arts, Berkeley, 4/2/2005
w/ Bernie Jungle (percussion), Jason Kleinberg (fiddle),
Lucio Menegon (guitar), and Val Esway (vocals)
Recording kindly provided by Michael Zelner/ZOKA
My Uncle Says
I Love You Guys
Pickle & Taco

Joe Rut
Microphonophone! 3/4/2007
A loop improvisation with an instrument I built: The Microphonophone!. It's a collection of cheesey mics all connected to an overdriven tube amp via momentary switches. The sound sources on this recording are all mics feeding back (and various effects, of course). Here's a picture.

lumper/splitter, from the CD "lumper/splitter"
Joe Rut (guitar), Lucio Menegon (guitar)
Sputnik
Actually, We Are Still In Kansas

Henry Kaiser Quartet, live at The Boom-Boom Room,
San Francisco, 5/10/2005
Henry Kaiser (guit), Allen Whitman (bass),
Scott Johnson (drums), Joe Rut (guit)
Live recording by Matt Kora
Was Anyone Seen in the Area (with guest vocalist, Phil Kellog)
This full show is available for free here .

Lucio Menegon, Joe Rut,& Phil Zurrigo, 10/11/05
Lucio and I met Swiss guitarist/looper Phil Zurrigo at the Y2K5 International Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz. We wound up at our warehouse space a few days later playing til 4 am. Here are the results of our 3-guitar/organ/found object conversation.
Warehouse Sounds 10-11-05, Pt. 1
Warehouse Sounds 10-11-05, Pt. 2

Bernhard Wagner and Joe Rut, 10/12/05
I also met Swiss guitarist/looper Bernhard Wagner at Y2K5, and we recorded a few hours of duet looping. Here's a section of that collaboration I like to call....
Pteradactyl Bob's Summer Vacation