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Matthew Parmenter

About Me


Horror Express Discipline. Rogue (in rehearsal)

I write songs and perform them when I can.

Birthday parties. Office events. Weddings. Bar mitzvahs.

Discipline . YouTube Videos

Discipline . MySpace page

Discipline . Web Site

Strung Out Records Web Site

Shameless self-promotion

Horror Express solo CD - now available

The new solo CD Horror Express is finally finished. Please buy a CD, or buy me a beer. Ryan Parmenter (Eyestrings) does the cover art!

song titles:

    In the Dark O Cesare Escape into the Future Kaiju Snug Bottom Flute and Starveling Golden Child Monsters from the Id Polly New All Done (Horror Express) The Cutting Room

Blah-di-blah:

New solo CD Horror Express is done!

In 2004 I released a solo CD with my friend Mathew Kennedy on bass. That CD was called Astray.

Before that I was in a band called Discipline., for a good long time. We were never able to make it click commercially, you know. The little success we found was due to the endless kindness of listeners and friends who came to our aid from the very earliest days straight through to the discreet and unremarkable end. You can learn more about the band at the Discipline . web site. [POSTSCRIPT: The Phoenix, she rises. Discipline. are performing again. And so, as always, the end is also the beginning.]

Before that I recorded some music alone. Much of this is pretty awful, but can be occasionally stimulating. (A little like adolescence.)

Before that I wrote a lot of songs that were never recorded, though I performed them here and there, mostly at school concerts. The first time I performed a song of my own making was in 1980(?), in a junior high school choir concert. I was in the seventh grade at the time. My math says I must have been twelve years old. I was always lousy at math.

As I find time, I'll try to put some of the earliest recordings up on the myspace site here. They won't appeal to most the fans of Discipline., and they don't particularly appeal to me either. But if you've read this far you must not have much else to do, so what the hell?

Um... Let's see. Oh yes, I just bought a cello.


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/19/2006
Band Website: http://www.strungoutrecords.com
Band Members: Matthew Parmenter
Influences: Akira Ifukube
Sounds Like:

In the player...

March 25, 2006

...If you aren't keen on these tracks (Glenn et al), visit the Discipline. MySpace page for something more muscular: Discipline. MySpace

Looking for me Looking for you 1984 - 4-track
This was the first song I recorded in the summer of 1984. Note the many nods to Strauss and the occasional glimpse of Gounod.I got my life in order 1984 - 4-track
What do you want? I was fifteen. I knew everything. I have several tracks from this period which highlight the backmasking. It was so easy on the old 4-tracks: you just flipped the tape. Now you have to take your mouse, click the little bar, click properties, select "backwards." It's too much bother anymore.Avis 1984 - 4-track
That's me making love to a Korg Mono/Poly on loan from my alma mater, Royal Oak Kimball High School. I was in the choir there, and the choir teacher let me borrow the synthesizer over the summer. Now that's life: No job, no responsibility, an anolog synth with portamento and an arpeggiator, and lest we should forget, lots and lots of TIME.4:20 a.m. Upstairs 1984 - 4-track
This is a little audio self-indulgence for you. (So what else is new?)

Who's selling my stuff...
    Syn-Phonic Kinesis cdbaby.com amazon.com apple iTunes

Record Label: Strung Out Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Check out this event: Horror Express CD Release Show - Discipline. & MP

Hosted By: Strung Out RecordsWhen: Sunday Nov 16, 2008 at 7:00 PMWhere The Magic Bag22920 Woodward AvenueFerndale, MI 48220United StatesDescription:Strung Out Records Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:06:00 GMT

Mondays Open mike at Xhedos in Ferndale, MI

Am playing at Ferndale's Xhedos Cafe on 9 mile. It's open mike (mic?), so I play when I can get on the list. Xhedos Cafe (248) 399-3946  240 W ...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:37:00 GMT