Thomas Herlofsen

Live Improv jam with digitone keys doing the heavy lifting, some solo work courtesy of the minibrute 2 layered with the behringer pro one. All through effects by Erica synths and recorded into the 4ms Eurorack recorder module. Audacity used for amplification only. All live.

FRED UT - Oppaknea by Thomas Herlofsen

Made on the Polyend Tracker. Vocals by Vladimir Putin

Made on the Polyend Tracker. Additional Python added w. Audacity

I made a track on my Polyend Tracker and needed something to carry it, googled ACAPELLA 120BPM on YouTube and the first hit was Melissa Carter's version of Alessia Cara's HERE. I did NOTHING to it except cut and paste! It just fit perfectly! Insane. Listen to Melissa Carter here: https://soundcloud.com/melissacarter-1 THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE TO THE COPYRIGHT OF EITHER THE SINGER OR THE WRITER OF T...

Party like it's 1994 with this little EDM experiment, mainly made on the Polyend Tracker and Organelle M

To my wife. Originally recorded piano + vocals live on my phone, added ukulele, Lyra, Pro-1, Minibrute and Various fx afterwards

An ode to our screaming decade. For those who missed my hellscapes. This is a minibrute2, a behringer pro one and a Lyra 4 w/ various fx. Recorded live

A seasonal tribute to Lou Reed. Recorded on my phone. My first playthrough of this song so it's very, very rough. I HATE DECEMBER I hate December All that glitz and jolliness makes me physically queasy All I remember Is when my dad had gone for good that year Then my grandparents slowly disappeared And I try to say thank you but you know it wasn’t easy I hate December All the rituals where they fo...

Wasn't feeling too good today. A nice, raspy throat is too good to waste :) There’s a thing going round Like a catchy tune Likes to kick you around Until you’re immune Captivating nations Deciding Elections Fucking up your reservations And your erections I’m dancing between the hammer blows My throat is sore I can’t feel my toes With a needle in my arm and a stick up my nose I’m dancing between th...

Recorded live at the half-finished Univern hardware store in Skien, Norway. En sang om å bli gammel nok til at man simpelthen mister folk. Spilt inn live i Univerns lokaler på Kjørbekk i Skien, 10. Oktober 2021 med en Snowball USB-mikrofon.

Recorded live at the half-finished Univern hardware store in Skien, Norway. En sang fra en bok og fra en plate. Spilt inn live i Univerns lokaler på Kjørbekk i Skien, 10. Oktober 2021 med en Snowball USB-mikrofon

A ballad about being alone (aren't they all) Written/vocals: Thomas Herlofsen Vocals: Monika Nordli Piano: Olav Stahl Production: Asle Helseth Master: Geir Thomas Nordskog, Ole Kristian Bangås

Named for obvious reasons (look at the image). There's a bit more to it than simply playing back the first half backwards, and it works better than has any right to do :)

The track Down was a perfect fit for TÅRER I REGN, it just needed a makeover. The stuff nightmares are made of.

The title track of the Norwegian side of my comling album. The English side, is out as an EP on all streaming services from July 2021, The EP of which this is apart is due out this fall. The LP collecting both, as well as an accompanying novel, will hopefully drop sometime in 2022

A bad day this January turned into a pretty nice ballad about a failed pricefighter. No guitar used for the exquisite noise. TKO I tried to get out of the corner I tried to get up off my knees I used to come out swingin, now I’m just a former A pile of meat and memories There’s mud inbetween my temples my head’s where my balls used to be and if I had a horse he would kick me And if I had a friend...

Attempting a smooth ballad telling a very familiar story from the point of view of the dad who left. Wonderful guitars by Truls Pedersen.

Lyrics and vocals by Phoenix T. Noah. Additional production by Thomas Herlofsen Phoenix posted this sweet little song she made on Amanda Palmer's Shadowbox forum a few weeks ago, and as I was putting together a project based on birdsong, waves, and other noises from my holiday paradise of Jomfruland I realized it needed her vocals. The samples are mostly made with my mobile phone and the entire th...

My finished version of the song I wrote for Amanda Palmer. As for now the final volley in our friendly game of artistic badminton, although I dream of her doing it live. With Brian maybe? Album in 2022, I hope.

The opener the famous one the one that brings everybody down When you get to the 4th song You know if you want to stick around It’s just around this stretch of time You know if we will get somewhere By now I couldn’t change your mind You can still brag about coming here Please don’t go I’ll give you all your money back I’ve practised for so long I don’t know what to do if you all go so stay I real...

En trimplate fra sekstitallet, en gammel tekst og en litt skakk hiphop-beat. A Norwegian exercise record from the sixties, an old lyric about a lonely man, a jangly, crooked hip hop beat. Title means: "And now it's raining even more."

My first experiment w/Polyend tracker. With one exception all sounds are created from scratch (from modular + ukulele) by me. Building absolutely everything like this is immensely satisfying. The only computer work on this is some EQ and a compressor from Audacity.

First chapter of my I-really-should-finish this-sometime novel. With music.

It started with a ukulele riff, and after recording it, and everything turning out sunny, but somehow sad, my thoughts turned to a friend of mine who's been stuck on a different continent with her son due to Covid. Somehow it became a country ballad along the way. There once was a woman Who fell into a hole And came out into the sun The other side was sunny And peaceful and warm She just couldn’t...