Sound Sample Page
This page contains many samples of Etcetera music, and a few other related bands. All samples are in the
format. I will rotate songs occasionally, to make you visit my site again some other time.
If you have visited this site during the past 5 years, you may have noticed very little activity. Due to little available time I have had no time to make the necessary updates, so this has not been as exciting a place to visit as it could have been. And since Etcetera is not an active band, this is not so surprising.
However, there is a lot of music to be heard from Etcetera and related projects, for those that are interested, and this is the place to find it! This is an archive of music representing the different phases of Etcetera.
All folders of available Etcetera music is here.
Collaborations between Per and Frank and other electronic projects is here.
Etcetera 1986
The original Etcetera line-up, here in a primitive recording of Michaels "Blandede Bolscher". Too bad we never made a proper recording of this song, but I have a good recording of Michael playing the piano part, so maybe it will happen some day. The drum sound is ghastly, but Johnnie makes up for it with so many ideas that I still wonder if he had an extra arm at play here.
The 1986 demo tape made at Tage Lütkens studio is here at full length. The songs are the Etcetera standards: Michaels 18 Years of which this is the best recording we have, Camel which was mainly my idea made up on the spot in the rehearsal room, and the earliest arrangement of Experience
More details can be found here.
Etcetera Sweden 1999
Etcetera played as the warm up act for the Flower Kings in Göteborg, Sweden in 1999, arranged by GARF. There is a crude video of that event, with an even cruder audio track. After spending a lot of time editing the audio, the sound quality has become at least bearable, but after spending all this time noodling with the sound, I thought somebody should benefit, with a download here
Etcetera 2002-2004
The remaining downloads are newer. The folders from 2002 to 2004 sadly documents the decline of Etcetera. If you compare the comparative energy of the 2002 folders with the lacklust of 2004, it is eminent why we had to stop.
I loved the psychedelia of UFO but the others hated it. Too bad. I think we were onto something there.
There was a lot of great group improvisations. I thought it was a way to change Etcetera compositions from being an individual endeavour to a common thing, but it never materialized as compositions, so this is all that will ever come out of these rehearsals. Too bad. But judge for yourself. There's a lot of interesting improvs.
Afterlife 2004-
After 2004 my activity has been low, but has occasionally spun off a song or two. While some of these definitely did not belong in the context of Etcetera, a few of them would. Some of them are even based on actual Etcetera rehearsals, and so have some street cred as Etc songs. Here is a quick collection of song demos of varying quality, that I think would have made it to an Etcetera recording:
Copyright 2005 by Frank Carvalho