Kait Bell's new record,
titled "Various Interludes",
is totally completed,
and she posted demos here,
sporadically,
for U to listen to.
It took a while to complete.
this is my first time writing songs since high school,
I had to teach myself how to write a song again.
It's not perfect, but the itch returned...
Please email me and let me know what you think.
Thanks
Kait
added Jul 15:
Mister Blanks Delusional Fantasii. Recorded May 2025.
While this started as a recording experiment, and is mixed/mastered to my liking, I will be redoing this one for various reasons.
8/6/25 note - I hate thinking about this song. just the lyrics really. Maybe u will know why one day. it will be on the record nonetheless...
Demo Three. Recorded June 2025.
slightly edited (sorry), for "better" listening experience
8/6/25 note - this song got a title.
Tonally Nothing. Recorded July 2025.
* This will not be on the album.
This is a nothing, it will not be on the final record. Just felt like it should be recorded and subsequently "out there". Maybe itself is "out there".
Simple Simon I Think. Recorded July 2025.
The ending thing will sound better eventually.
8/6/25 note - this song got a new title. but i wont tell u what it is!!! HA!!!!
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added Aug 6:
Medley: Mr Blank & Someone. Recorded August
2025.
This is a medley rehearsal of Mister Blank's Delusional Fantasy and
"Someone", two songs that will be on the record.
Copy Girl. Recorded August 2025.
* This will not
be on the album.
This is a cover of a song by COCA, whose real name is
Yoshiko Hada. Today she is well known as an illustrator, but not many people
know she was a musician who was involved with the Japanese indie scene until
1999. She was an original member of indie trio ELEKKI BRAN which is how I
found out about her.
In the 90s she released some music under this pseudonym
and then quietly disappeared. I don't know if they really made a dent in the
scene at the time, I can't find any articles or anything, but the songs are
incredible. Offbeat pop? nah that feels like a misnomer. It's something.
Something crazy about these songs, and her only full length album PULSE.
I
have cried to Copy Girl many times. I dont think Im too ashamed to admit that
now, but if i said it at the time, I feel like I would have been laughed at,
probably not. Really its a simple song but those lyrics cryptic as they are,
describe a part of me i like to pretend to repress. It is a song I live through
every day of my life.
I wanted to learn to play this song, but in my mind
this song wouldnt fit well with the theme of this album. But I wanted to pay
tribute to what is a very important song for me, and one that sparked the
creation of my new world of songwriting. Thanks Hada-san.
Japanese is still a
language I struggle with. I can now understand it better than French. A blessing
and a curse. My pronunciation is not good, very Canadian. Please keep that in
mind. The lyrics are on Genius if you want to read/translate them.
Demo Three - Vocal try. Recorded July 2025.
Even
though this song now has a title, I will still call it Demo Three. This is an
acapella ver. Why Not!
"Someone" vocal demo & songwriting session.
Recorded July 2025.
This is the vocal demo of a song called "someone" - the
actual title of the song is longer, ok? - a cool little short thing that
originally ended before the 'Savagely' line. listen to the medley to get an idea
of the instrumental structure as it stands right now. when I tried to record
bass for this song i found out my bass is broken, how fun, I guess I need to fix
that!!!
0:00 - 1:15 - I'm figuring out the melody
1:16 - 2:22
- the songwriting process in action, minus a LOT of silence. You are hearing
the ending being written, the words being formed from my mouth for the first
time. The tapping is me writing it down in my notes app.
Exciting.
2:23 - end - Pretty much the final melody/lyrics
(except for a few changes).
After this, I figured out the chords (thanks Guy
for helping with that!).
Early demo that will never be finished. Recorded July
2025.
* This will not be on the album.
This is actually a
combination of a vocal demo and bass rehearsal. I realized that I have no idea
how to play the chord(s) I was trying to play so I've abandoned this one at
least for the time being. As mentioned above I found out my bass is broken so I
can't plug it into an amp/the mixer at the moment anyway.
In addition, the
lyrics that this melody was originally intended for didn't really fit well, so I
wrote a new one, unfortunately much simpler, but it still sounds alright. I had
this song in mind for a single or something, but that will be decided when
everything is mixed 'n' mastered to my liking.
Someone Tell Me If I Said This Already. Recorded May
2025.
Here is another recording experiment from the early idea germination. I
might redo this one. I go back and forth hating it and loving it.
So, total progress report - about ~15 minutes have been recorded for the record as of today. That's pretty good. My target is about 40 total, if it's above or below, no worries.
It'll be done when its done of course. I would estimate by the end of the year or early next year, if I can keep up this pace.
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added Nov 17:
A video for "Innisfil Song" is out now
and, like I usually do, I forgot to update this page for a couple months.
I got real sick and had a hard time coming back to V.I., so I decided to pretty much leave it as is. Then I ended up having to come back to it and fix up my mistakes... Anyways...
Various Interludes is totally finished, all things cleared and such as of yesterday (16th), I may as well throw the preliminary tracklist (titles not capitalized/finalized) here for those curious:
tracks with * are instrumentals.
track 5 is an english cover of Neppari Ichiza's "Hakyoku kazoku", released with permission from the artist
the lyrics will be available with the bandcamp download when the album releases on November 30th.
and it was mastered by Emerson Borakove, who went above and beyond my expectations.
so, this is the final big update for this page, sorry its not a whole lot, but I just frankly dont have a whole lot left to show!
Mr Blanks Delusional Fantasy. Recorded June
2025.
An early runthrough of this classic(?). Everyone likes this one
the most. Well to be honest I like it better than Innisfil Song. I'm having
a hard time figuring it out here, but I can play it a lot better now,
really its pretty simple.
Solomon's Song. Recorded June 2025.
* This will not be on the album.
Kind of evolved
into "The Next Horrible Thing", formerly "Simple Simon I Think", but I should
probably redo this one in the future when I'm less sick. Some of the lyrics
are adapted from the biblical book. The line "cover me in sweetness" was
improvised.
Cardigan. Recorded November 2025.
*
This will not be on the album.
Cover of Yuusari Yuusareba song. I love
her album "Kame no iru seikatsu". This is technically post-interludes, though I
considered having it on the record, I fucked up the middle section bad
enough that I think it should just be here.
There is literally only one demo left, from May 2025, and it's called "Completely Herpes" and it sucks so bad. I'm genuinely really embarrassed by it. So I'm not gonna release it.
Hope u enjoy the album when it comes out!
email me! (link at the top)
and let me know what U think! thx!
-kait b
