"Tame Yourself", a benefit album for PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The song entitled "Across The Way" was written by River Phoenix and Josh McKay and performed by their band, Aleka's Attic. The album came out in 1989. [870K WAV] "Across the Way" 40 second excerpt.
	There's been a LP version of "Tame Yourself" released in Germany, with a different cover and a slightly different track list, but still featuring Aleka's Attic's song.
In concerts on the east coast between 1989 and 1990, Aleka's Attic sold tapes of four songs : Across The Way Too Many Colors Gold Mine Blue Period

In 1991, Gus Van Sant included one of these songs in "My Own Private Idaho" : "Too Many Colors" (that song doesn't appear on the CD soundtrack - if there's one ).

[393K WAV] "Too Many Colors" 18 second excerpt. (the copy for that song was rather weak so excuse me for the sound but it's the best I can do. It's very difficult to get any recording)

"In Defense of Animals Vol.2". An album released in 1996 by Caroline Records, catalogue number CAR 7536-2. Aleka's Attic perform a short song written by River entitled "Note to a Friend". Flea plays bass, River and Rain on vocals. Thanks Melanie [670K WAV] "Note to a Friend" 30 second excerpt.

• Alone We Elope
• Below Beloved
• Bliss Is...
• DogGod
• Get Anything
• Note to a Friend
• Safety Pins and Army Boots
• Scales and Fishnails
• Senile Felines
• Solo 2x4
• You're So Ostentatious

Thanks Barry for passing this info

Alekasatticzero on Myspace -
The user alekasatticzero shares 4 tracks from Aleka's Attic, all written by River Phoenix :

• 'Scales and Fishnails' : Vocals, Guitar and Piano River Phoenix, Vocals Rain Phoenix, Backing Vocals Liberty Phoenix
• 'Where I'd Gone' : Vocals and Guitars River Phoenix, Harmony Vocal Rain Phoenix, Drums Josh Greenbaum, Bass Michael Perfitt
• 'senilefelines' : Vocals and Guitars River Phoenix, Vocals Rain Phoenix, Drums Josh Greenbaum, Bass Michael Perfitt,
• 'In The Corner Dunce' : Vocals and Guitars River Phoenix, Drums Josh Greenbaum, Bass Josh McKay

Aleka's Attic - a website dedicated to the band, by the original author of these pages, Tim Propert.

Aleka's Attic - You can listen to some of the band songs on this site.

Hyde and Zeke has Emperor Moth CD's. This band has Josh McKay in it. You can contact us at:
(352) 332-1050 [U.S.A.]
Peace and love Bill Perry.

Albums and songs River is involved in

In the movie "The Thing Called Love", River performs several songs, including one of his own. However, the CD soundtrack only features versions performed by the original artists, none by River or his costars in the movie - Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock.

River wrote and played a song, "Lone Star State Of Mine", for the movie, that doesn't feature on the CD at all. According to this article, he wrote another one on set, called "Bus Picture Window".

[380 K] "Lone Star State Of Mine" 18 second excerpt.

River is on "smile from the streets you hold", the second John Frusciante album. River contributes vocals/guitar on a song called "height down" and the backwards monologue on one called "well, i've been". You can download a .MOV audio file of the monologue on this Unofficial John Frusciante Homepage - check the "audio" page. Thanks Tim

"TXAI", an album by Milton Nascimento. Released in 1991, the album features different indigenous tribes of Brazil and their songs. River performed a spoken word piece called "Curi Curi" for the album.Lyrics and english translation here (thanks to Adriana) If you have the RealAudio plug-in, you can listen to the piece on the CD Now site. Or check the .WAVE excerpt below: [846 K] "Curi Curi" 39 second excerpt.