let's talk seriously for a moment

as of today, the raffin kids music company has closed down. 

the three kids will be going on their merry way to pursue their own projects. bianca has already gone overseas for a tennis tournament in london; juan, multi-talented geetar player has branched out into different bands, namely the gyspy jazz kids; and i, jack, am pretty free actually, so i'll just stay in bed. always wanted to finish reading don quixote.

the blog will no longer be updated as there is no more band & the raffin kids youtube channel will still be up in case any "bootlegs" show up.

expect in the future to see the new phase of this music company - the good kids: an eight-piece reggae-rock-surf-jazz-spoken word-carnival rock band. but you'll have to look for that one yerselves.

thanks to all the good boys & girls who dug the music. & until next time.

improv sessions 3

intro / the idiot

improv sessions 2

run away

raffin kids improv sessions, pt. 1

the what's on your mind rock


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for my brother juan, it was a pen he needed, just as i put down vocal fun.

anything else?

i don't know what this is either:

chasing the green rainbow (with lyrics by sparx)

art outside the kitchen, foreign correspondent collaboration

easy as abc, 123, you can dig it, yeah?



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third-party treet

ordinary madness

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back when me & buddy/muse jess were hanging out last year we'd get into the wacky world of magic markers (see also: luna ballantine).

this was from last year, a third-eye collaboration between jess, her buddy from brazil & me. i think it's a drawing that also works upside down. & i think it all began because the brazilian kid plinio didn't know what mr squiggle was, and well, it went on from there.

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first-party treet, sans official lyrics

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welcome back

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third-party treet

back to business pt. 3

when the kids get together and jam out a rock 'n' roll about the resident dog, cookie, you know for sho' we kids are getting back to business:

cookie b goode


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(sing along with the kids!)

hey cookie dog
you're so good to me
hey cookie dog
you make me weak at the knees

i got a cookie dog
she's cute as can be
i got a cookie dog
she can't be beat

half pomeranian
half maltese
hey cookie dog, you can dance with me

back to business, pt. 2

love song