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Recorded most of the keyboard parts today!

#The Escape Plan #RPM Challenge #thank goodness #Yamaha

Silverlake, CA | March 2013 | Steven Ray Morris

#Silverlake #Los Angeles #east side #palm trees #Hollywood #California #CA #powershot #Griffith Observatory #Hollywood Sign #Steven Ray Morris #canon #haze #spring #summer #air #apartment #afternoon

I found my kazoos!

#The Escape Plan #kazoo #rpm challenge #thank goodness

Some ukulele recording today.

#The Escape Plan #RPM Challenge #Ukulele #capo #thank goodness

Doing a modified RPM Challenge this year and feeling really good about it.

#RPM Challenge #The Escape Plan #Thank Goodness

"Chewie, we're home."

#griffith observatory #Los Angeles #The Escape Plan #diorama mountain #Hollywood #thank goodness

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“…the cool embrace of the night” is a mantra and hymn about stepping out and then stepping back in again. It’s a baritone ukulele ode to perseverance that transforms into something mightier, just like all of us.

The song is included on the new full-length release by Thank Goodness, The Autumn Fall, a collection of Halloween-inspired tunes written and recorded during last year’s 13 Days 13 Shorts Festival. Check out the album, available now!

Steven Ray Morris is a Los Angeles-based author and an okapi in his next life. He cohosts a podcast about cats called The Purrrcast and his book about the Jurassic Park franchise, Molding A Jurassic Universe, was released earlier this summer via Thought Catalog Books. Check out links to all of his work over on his website. You can find him on Twitter @StevenRayMorris

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Super proud of this song!

#Thank Goodness #13 Days 13 Shorts #...the cool embrace of the night #night #baritone ukulele #shoegaze #hymn #mantra #indie #indie pop #The Autumn Fall

16 track album

Last October I agreed to write songs for all thirteen days of the 13 Days 13 Shorts Festival 2014, a yearly celebration of all things Halloween, if I was unemployed. Well, it turns out I had just quit my last job at the time so I was put to task.

The Autumn Fall is the result of the delightful and at times maddening effort to write, record, mix, and master songs based off the themes of that year. It contains folktale-esque ramblings about The Hobbit and Sleepy Hollow, EDM-lite songs about sugar skulls and Disney’s Halloweentown, shoegaze jams about turnips and haunted houses, an Imogen Heap-aping tune about Alien from the perspective of Lt. Ripley’s cat, and even a gritty jazz tune about that one really bad X-Files episode with vampires.

For 2015 I remastered all thirteen of these spooky tunes plus two older 13 Days 13 Shorts songs from 2012 and 2013, AND I wrote and recorded a brand new song for this year’s festival based on today’s theme ‘Night.’ Halloween is my favorite holiday and Fall is my favorite season even if I live in Los Angeles. Come celebrate the insanity with me. Don’t forget to bring your pumpkin spice everything.

The Autumn Fall

1. The Big Black Cat

2. Going To The Overlook

3. They Mostly Come At Night

4. Caramel Candy Apple Baby

5. Pumpkin Head

6. Marnie Piper

7. Three

8. Calavera Rave

9. Throw The Rest Away

10. Loveless Turnip

11. The Night Galadriel Brought Dol Guldur Down

12. Billy Butcherson

13. The Meta Game: or, The Joss Whedon Blues

14. Goblin-Town (Down, Down) (Bonus Track - 2012)

15. Baby, I'm The Necromancer (Bonus Track - 2013)

16. …the cool embrace of the night (Bonus Track - 2015)

Here’s another quick cover of one of my favorite songs of all time, “Let’s Get Out Of This Country,” the title track off Camera Obscura’s amazing third record.

#Let's Get Out Of This Country #Camera Obscura #cover #acoustic #march madness #Thank Goodness #indie pop #demo #Tracyanne Campbell

A fast and loose cover of one of my favorite Joanna Newsom songs.

#'81 #Joanna Newsom #Have One On Me #Thank Goodness #march madness #folk #demo #acoustic #81 #cover

1 - Sunday Morning Ambience

2 - Whiskey Ginger

3 - Esther Greenwood

4 - Tier One Vendor Program

5 - Cool Air, Warm Sun

6 - Radioactive

7 - East Antarctic Ice Sheet

8 - Ukulele Song No. 99 (Feat. Dax Schaffer)

9 - No, I Can’t

10 - AUJ

It’s been exactly one year since the release of Sunday Morning Ambience, my first record under the Thank Goodness moniker. Written, recorded, mixed, and mastered in a flurry during the month of February for the RPM Challenge, I’m still really proud of these tunes. Take another listen if you haven’t in awhile.

#Thank Goodness #Sunday Morning Ambience #RPM Challenge #Silverlake #Los Angeles #indie #folk #twee #ambient #noise #singer-songwriter #Battle Afternoon

domeschedelic

#thank goodness #domeschedelic #LP2 #coming soon

I recorded this video for "Regression Song: or, Let's Get The Hell Out Of The Holocene" on my last day living on the east side of Los Angeles. less than a month later I also left my job. I'd been at both for over three years. This song, and video, examines the dismantling required to make changes in your life. I hope you enjoy it.

#Thank Goodness #Regression Song #ukulele #Self-Preservation #music video #single #Los Angeles #Silverlake #Battle Afternoon

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Here to play us out is Thank Goodness who has written songs for each of the 13 Days themes.

So here it is, the final note of the soundtrack to 13 Days 13 Shorts.

"The Meta Game: or, The Joss Whedon Blues"

by Thank Goodness aka Steven Ray Morris

links:

https://thankgoodness.bandcamp.com/music

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And here is the final song about the still great Cabin In The Woods.

It's been fun everyone. Thank you for listening to all my silly Halloween songs.

#Cabin In The Woods #Joss Whedon #13 Days 13 Shorts #folk #ukulele #Thank Goodness #drone #meta

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Finally Billy Butcherson gets his due! Thank Goodness’s song dedication to Billy Butcherson and the wonder that is Hocus Pocus.

"Billy Butcherson" by Thank Goodness aka Steven Ray Morris

links:

https://thankgoodness.bandcamp.com/music

https://twitter.com/StevenRayMorris

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An a cappella decree in the name of Doug Jones and Hocus Pocus.

#Hocus Pocus #13 Days 13 Shorts #Doug Jones #Billy Butcherson #vio app #vio #r&b #a cappella #thank goodness

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Hey all you Tolkien fans, Thank Goodness has your song of the day! "The Night Galadriel Brought Dol Guldur Down" by Thank Goodness aka Steven Ray Morris

links:

https://thankgoodness.bandcamp.com/music

https://twitter.com/StevenRayMorris