When I was first discovering song-poems, I quickly developed an online friendship with song-poem maven Phil Milstein, and, after I had found a stack of song-poems in a few local stores, he and I began tape-trading. In early 1997, the first song on the very first tape he sent me was the ridiculous Halmark label classic “My Hamburger Baby” (which was released to the rest of the world on an online compilation many years later). I found it jaw-droppingly weird, and it quickly became one of my favorites. Once I was up and running, using Midi to make backing tracks, I decided to try to make a note-for-note remake of the song. This is the result.
On her first release for RVNG, Discovery Zone makes lustrous, winking pop music that's equal parts pleasant and mysterious. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 9, 2024