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String Theory
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Turtle and Friends
Wacky Turtle
🎵 Home-Baked Cookies: The Music of Turtle’s Torah Commons
Welcome to the kitchen of sound. These songs are my home-baked cookies — made with love, imperfection, and the kind of honest flavor that only comes from never using a recipe.
I don’t “write” songs. Not the way people are supposed to. When I was 15 and playing in a band, I had an epiphany. (We were probably all high, so take that as you will.) Out of nowhere, I blurted:
“I know how to write the greatest songs.”
The band laughed.
They asked, “How?”
All I could say was:
“Just don’t have any plans at all. Just play whatever happens.”
They laughed again. That’s not how songs are written.
But for me… it still is.
There's a lyric in one of my songs — Let the Fear Go — that goes:
“The first time is always the best time… it’s all right.”
And that’s exactly how most of these songs were born.
No structure, no blueprint — just me messing around, recording live while jamming with myself. Sometimes GarageBand is running. Sometimes an old Yamaha 120 four-track cassette recorder. Sometimes I add layers. Sometimes I don’t.
I’ve tried writing songs the normal way. It doesn’t work for me.
And recording studios? I gave those up too. Too expensive — and worse, they make my music sound canned, rehearsed, polished… boring.
But GarageBand? It just sits there patiently, recording whatever flows out. Hours go by, and every so often, something real bakes itself.
So here they are:
🎶 Home-baked cookies for the soul.
Raw, imperfect, sometimes weird, sometimes spiritual.
But never artificial.
I don’t “write” songs. Not the way people are supposed to. When I was 15 and playing in a band, I had an epiphany. (We were probably all high, so take that as you will.) Out of nowhere, I blurted:
“I know how to write the greatest songs.”
The band laughed.
They asked, “How?”
All I could say was:
“Just don’t have any plans at all. Just play whatever happens.”
They laughed again. That’s not how songs are written.
But for me… it still is.
There's a lyric in one of my songs — Let the Fear Go — that goes:
“The first time is always the best time… it’s all right.”
And that’s exactly how most of these songs were born.
No structure, no blueprint — just me messing around, recording live while jamming with myself. Sometimes GarageBand is running. Sometimes an old Yamaha 120 four-track cassette recorder. Sometimes I add layers. Sometimes I don’t.
I’ve tried writing songs the normal way. It doesn’t work for me.
And recording studios? I gave those up too. Too expensive — and worse, they make my music sound canned, rehearsed, polished… boring.
But GarageBand? It just sits there patiently, recording whatever flows out. Hours go by, and every so often, something real bakes itself.
So here they are:
🎶 Home-baked cookies for the soul.
Raw, imperfect, sometimes weird, sometimes spiritual.
But never artificial.