Songs About My Cats is a 2001 album by Venetian Snares. It is also his first solo album on the Planet Mu label (Making Orange Things, released barely one month prior to Songs About My Cats on Planet Mu, was a collaboration with Speedranch).
The album features influence from many separate styles. The most prominent influence is ambient music, however, certain songs also show influence from jazz music, such as "Pouncelciot", which uses samples from an improvisation by Mark Kaminsky, and even influence from classical music and salsa music appear on the album.
Both "Katzesorge" tracks are identical except that the second has a drone akin to a cat's purr in the background for most of the song.
Many tracks contain cat-related samples, including the Meow Mix jingle. Other tracks contain other cat references in their titles. Chinaski, Kakarookee, Fluff Master, and Bobo are all cats that have belonged to Funk at one point or another. Nepetalactone is a chemical found in catnip. Bertha Rand was the infamous "cat lady" of Winnipeg, Funk's hometown. The final track, "Look", consists of what sounds like filtered static, that reveals several pictures of Funk's cats when put through a spectrogram program.
Famous quotes containing the words songs and/or cats:
“We can never see Christianity from the catechism:Mfrom the pastures, from a boat in the pond, from amidst the songs of wood- birds we possibly may.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“When cats run home and light is come,
And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream is dumb,
And the whirring sail goes round,
And the whirring sail goes round;
Alone and warming his five wits,
The white owl in the belfry sits.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)