CHARLES BOBUCK

Available Downloads (solo)

Available CD (solo)

- Missing Soldiers
- Clank Clank Clank
- Dolor Generar
- The Highway
- Love Is … My Only Sunshine
- Lying Horse Rock
- CB Suite
- The Swords of Slidell
- Later Tonight
- As a Child I Sold the News
- Postcards from Patmos
- Maxine
- Ghost Music
- God-O
- Wallpaper (soundtrack)

- Egg Booty
- nineteen-sixty-seven
- Eggs for Breakfast
- Bobuck Plays The Residents
- Missing Soldiers
- What Was Left of Grandpa
- THIS
- Codgers on the Moon
- Roman de la Rose

Available BOOK

- THIS

PROJECTS

BOBUCK MUSIC

2008 - Postcards from Patmos (attributed to Bobuck/The Residents) (CD)
2011 - Dolor Generar (Bobuck) (CD)
2012 - God-O: music for a gallery opening (Bobuck) (CD)
2012 - Codgers on the Moon (Bobuck) (CD)
2012 - Lying Horse Rock (Bobuck) (CD)
2012 - Chuck's Ghost Music (Bobuck) (CD)
2013 - Life Is My Only Sunshine (Bobuck) (CD)
2014 - Maxine / CB Suite (Bobuck) (2/CD)
2014 - The Highway (Bobuck) (CD)
2014 - Roman de la Rose (Bobuck) (CD)
2015 - What Was Left of Grandpa (Bobuck) (CD)
2016 - The Swords of Slidell (Bobuck) (CD)
2016 - Later Tonight (Bobuck) (CD single)
2016 - Bobuck plays The Residents (Bobuck) (CD)
2016 - Missing Soldiers (Bobuck) (CD)
2017 - Eggs for Breakfast (Bobuck) (CD)
2017 - Clank Clank Clank (Bobuck) (CD)
2017 - nineteen-sexy-seven (Bobuck) (CD)
2017 - Egg Booty (Bobuck) (CD)

BOBUCK WRITING

Test Tubes of Tomorrow (Bobuck)
This (Bobuck)

Charles Bobuck, under some name, composed for The Residents until 2016. The Residents had all but stopped making albums after 2008 but Bobuck kept doing what he always did, so he made Charles Bobuck albums instead of Residents albums.
Some of his favorites are listed below, plus a book he published in 2016, as well as info on future plans.


EGG BOOTY

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CD

17 more tunes from 2017

nineteen-sixy-seven

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CD

Lyrics from the Summer of Love with new music

CLANK CLANK CLANK

CD - TOOK #4 limited edition

Demos from 2014 of a rethinking of Meet The Residents for a proposed Residents 40th Anniversary album.

LIMITED EDITION (300) TOOK 04


WALLPAPER

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music by Charles Bobuck
read by Joey R

EGGS FOR BREAKFAST

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CD

Charles Bobuck has collected 26 of his favorite Tiny Tunes for this unique collection.

It is egg-a-licious.

MISSING SOLDIERS

CD - TOOK #3 limited edition

These MIDI arrangements started out in 2001 as sketches for a proposed Residents album based on The American Civil War.

LIMITED EDITION (300) TOOK 03


BOBUCK PLAYS THE RESIDENTS

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Featuring Nolan Cook, Carla Fabrizio
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New arrangement and new vocals crack open altered interpretations of favorite Residents standards. Charles Bobuck mixes a bit of wood with va va room on this surprising non-ventriloquist project. It’ll have you singing with your lips closed while drinking a glass of water.


LATER TONIGHT

CD SINGLE (available with order of THE SWORDS OF SLIDELL)

1. Later Tonight (2016) unreleased
2. Stones in my Passway (2016) unreleased
*3. The Sleeper (2016)
*4. The Whispering Boys (2016)

*from the September release of BOBUCK PLAYS THE RESIDENTS

LIMITED EDITION (300) TOOK 02


THE SWORDS OF SLIDELL (Soundtrack)

SOUNDTRACK CD

Original Soundtrack

Charles Bobuck’s scoring for the H.Fox book.
Contains highlight from the book dramatically narrated by H.Fox

LIMITED EDITION (300) TOOK 01


THIS

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Featuring guitar work by Nolan Cook
and vocals by Nessie Lessons

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Charles Bobuck became visible about the same time The Residents felt the pinch of the popularity of free downloading. They, like many bands, shifted their energy toward live performance. However, Mr. Bobuck did not like touring. He preferred making albums. So he quit touring and made albums instead. Logical.

THIS is a collection of music from the many “underground” albums he independently recorded between 2009 and 2016, as well as, pieces he wrote under the nom de plume of Sonidos de la Noche, Chuck, and The Residents during those same years.


THIS is for Readers

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The composer for The Residents begins his retirement from the group after forty years with a series of insightful tales of life outside of an eyeball. Twenty-nine music examples included.

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THIS is also for Readers , But…

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The composer for The Residents begins his retirement from the group after forty years with a series of insightful tales of life outside of an eyeball. NO MUSIC INCLUDED.

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WHAT WAS LEFT OF GRANDPA

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Featuring guitar work by Nolan Cook.

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What was right about Grandpa was his love of jazz, and what was left of Grandpa was his collection of 78s. Left to me, at least. He was the one who first pulled earphones over my six year old head while mumbling, "Listen to this." The headphones smelled like cigarettes. The sound, however, immediately flushed Disney tunes from my young brain.

Grandpa Charles would not think this album jazz. But I do.

——— Charles Bobuck

MUSH-ROOM

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Music originally written for the performance MUSH-ROOM (2013) by Grace Ellen Barkey & Needcompany (a Belgian theatre/dance company).

Technically by
The Residents, it is a project that I wrote working with Grace Barkey. I am quite proud of how it turned out so wanted to include it here.

——— Charles Bobuck


ROMAN DE LA ROSE

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I am a married man. I married a guy named Roman a really long time ago. Roman has never been a fan of my music. That has not been a problem, but I thought I would enjoy trying to write something for Roman, something that is both personal and public.

I generally do not believe in public displays of affection once one is over the age of 16. But here it is. The gesture of an old man appreciating his life.

—- Charles Bobuck

CODGERS ON THE MOON

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This collection of eleven contraptions - "contraptions" seems like a better description than compositions - all share a number of things in common. First off… none are particularly dramatic, clever or ironic. Maybe a tiny bit of soaring, but for the most part, it is a series of tuned percussive patterns laid on top of each other, audio moiré. They take their beauty in a type of minimalism. So perhaps it is akin to sitting on the ground and inspecting nature immediately around you .

—— Charles Bobuck

COOCHIE BRAKE

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Featuring guitar work by Nolan Cook.

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Technically an album by Sonidos de la Noche, I wrote this after getting inspired by hearing Dr. John's album, Gris Gris.

A million years ago, a big rock fell out of the sky and landed right in the middle of Louisiana. Well, it wasn't Louisiana at that time. But that rock fell, and it hit hard making a giant dent. It gradually filled in but no matter what, it still left a dent. And that dent held just enough water that it became a primeval swamp known as Coochie Brake.

The dark atmosphere is captured in the music found on this disc.

HADES

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CD

Technically by The Residents, it is a project that I wrote to accompany an art exhibit by Homer Flynn. I like how it turned out so wanted to include it here even if I lost the rights to it. ——— Charles Bobuck

TWELVE DD (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) PROJECTS

These projects were CDs at some point, but the editions sold out. Some became downloads on BANDCAMP afterwards.
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THE HIGHWAY (ambient)
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LIFE IS … MY ONLY SUNSHINE (ambient)
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LYING HORSE ROCK (suite)
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DOLOR GENERAR (ambient)
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GOD O (ambient)
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MAXINE (ambient)
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THE SWORDS OF SLIDELL (soundtrack)
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POSTCARDS FROM PATMOS (soundtrack)
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GHOST MUSIC (soundtrack)
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LATER TONIGHT (pop)
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AS A CHILD I SOLD THE NEWS (suite)
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CB SUITE (suite)