Hey all! It's been awhile, I know, but I'm back with another podcast. This time it's all music made under the "Charlie Naked" project aegis. This is my solo experimental music project, and if you want any more information about what I do or other music I have, go to my MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/charlienaked

1. "Saturation (Third Movement)" - SATURATION (2007) This is the third of three shorter tracks on my most recent album. The three variations on Saturation are all based on multiple tracks of malleted electric guitar, in the key of D. The first of these tracks is available on the afore-mentioned MySpace profile. The fourth track on the album is an exploration of incongruent long loops.

2. "Bliss and the Sitar" - THE DRONE WRENCH (1995) I originally conceptualized this piece based on a bass motif I wrote to accompany Bliss Blood (of the Pain Teens and the Moonlighters) who was improvising on a sitar. That recording didn't survive due to a faulty mic cable, but this reimagining on one of my earliest albums is still a pretty nice droney track.

3. "Charge of the Trenchcoat Brigade" - THE MAGNIFICENT OCTOPUS (1999) This was the last analog (non-computer) album that I did, and one of the relatively few largely electronic-keyboard-based and song-oriented albums I've ever done under the Charlie Naked moniker. The theremin playing is pretty bad, but largely I like a lot of the underlying concepts behind these pieces.

4. "Bellydancers' Reunion" - DIVING HOMEWORK (1995) One of only two bass-and-three-saxophone early works that I've done, I always enjoyed how this came out, particularly in the middle of a primarily piano-based album.

5. "The Countess" - THE COUNTESS (2004) This collaboration with Two Star Symphony violist Jo Bird has always been one of my proudest moments. This, the lead-off track, is based around a melody that Jo Bird composed. She played this melody for me, and then I chopped up a copy of it, and processed and recombined the pieces, adding them onto the original viola solo for a result which neither of us alone could've achieved. The rest of the album is based on the edited and processed pieces of a long free improvisation she performed for the project, but this piece was composed beforehand, and represents one of the very few true collaborations appearing in the Charlie Naked project.

All of these songs and albums can be purchased at http://www.cafepress.com/charlienaked for $10 apiece, a very reasonable cost indeed, don't you think?