Music and Lyrics

This page is dedicated to documenting music and lyrics I have created or co-created. I am a singer, drummer, composer, and lyricist, focusing mainly on power pop type rock and roll, but I happily branch off into many other styles: hip hop, dance music, prog rock, you name it. The weirder the better.

New Songs

The following three songs were composed/recorded with songwriter/producer Allen Towbin and will be featured on our upcoming album "Never Too Late To Wake Up."

All songs copyright 2009 Allen Towbin/Phil Ristaino. All lyrics copyright 2009 Phil Ristaino.

The Troy Westfield Experience: Tantric Scrimshaw

The following 13 songs comprise the complete 3rd album from the Troy Westfield Experience. I am the lead singer on this album (as well as drummer on 4 songs) and wrote all the lyrics. The entire album was conceived and created with my longtime amigo Mike Gordon (aka Troy Westfield), whom I've been blessed to call "friend" for nearly 35 years (and who also co-wrote the lyrics for track 12, "Abiola Bachus"). This album was recorded at Maze Studios in NYC by another brother from another mother, the genius Allen Towbin.

Just below the album you will find all the album cover art (illustrated by yours truly), including a 28 page fully illustrated lyric book. Please enjoy "Tantric Scrimshaw" by the Troy Westfield Experience:

cover to 'Tantric Scrimshaw' (click images to enlarge)

Interior Art

Back cover to 'Tantric Scrimshaw'


And now, by popular demand, I present the never-before-published TWE Tantric Scrimshaw lyrical and pictorial digest (Click images to enlarge):

lyrics to trak 1: Alyssa Gordon
lyrics to trak 2: Who Designed Amanda?
Lyrics to trak 3: Pretty Nazi
Lyrics to trak 4: The Avatars Saved Her From Me
Lyrics to Trak 5: How You Could Leave
Lyrics to trak 6: Obsessed w/ the Five of Hearts/Being Worthless
Lyrics to trak 7: Bridges Burning You
Lyrics to trak 8: More Than Clouds
Lyrics to trak 9: "What?" Is Real.
Lyrics to trak 10: Hank Pym
Lyrics to trak 11: For a While
Lyrics to trak 12: Abiola Backus

Lyrics to trak 13: Two Sources
all music/ lyrics copyright 2001 Mike Gordon/ Phil Ristaino /obsteporous music/postrelevant records.
all art, lyrics and lyric booklet copyright 2001 Phil Ristaino/post relevant productions
except "Abiola Backus" Mike Gordon/ Phil Ristaino/obstreporous publishing/post relevant productions

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