Tag: Folk Implosion
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Feel It If You Feel It
A few days ago, the first post – reunion Folk Implosion release came out on Bandcamp. It’s got two new songs – like a double A sided single – with two additional tracks, remixes of those two songs by Scott Solter. It came out on limited edition vinyl, cassette, and unlimited edition CD. The vinyl…
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Early Bird Gets T Worm
I been working hard but not in this website format so by the time I got around to posting about this limited edition Folk Implosion T Shirt…it’s gone! But we’re not, anymore. Folk Implosion are working on two songs for a new single and hope to continue with more than that after… We are corresponding…
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Top 40 Over 40.30: Duke Ellington, 1962
One of the things I admire about the jazz tradition is the fluidity with which musicians move from being leaders to sidemen. Take an album like Conference of Birds by Dave Holland. I mostly knew Dave as a sideman for Anthony Braxton and Miles Davis. But then Braxton turns around and plays sideman for Holland’s…
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Top 40 Over 40.27: No Protection
Remixes usually disappoint me. I often imagine it’s because they’re run off quickly without the remixer having an in person musical relationship with the artist they’re remixing. I didn’t really dig either the UNKLE or Dust Brothers remixes that were done of Folk Implosion’s Natural One & Insinuation. When One Part Lullaby came out in…
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Driftin’ back to Buckley
Simon Joyner once said to me I wish I could sing like Tim Buckley, but I do what I can with what I have. I said I felt the same way. This morning I was looking for something irrelevant to listen to while nearing completion of Gnawing on The Bone, an instrumental project I’ve been…
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The Core is Getting Soft.14: Bang a Slate
One of the digital tools I threw in the mix of my new record is SSD4, the drum sampler made by Slate Digital. It was the first time I used something other than an electronic drum machine to program drums. The closest I’d come to fake “real” drums was the time we sampled a drum…
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Top 40 over 40.17: A Different Kind of Swans Song
Most of the musicians I’ve written about in this series are ones that were important to me when I was younger because of work they did themselves when they were young. I’ve written about records they did after turning 40 that either came close to or equaled the quality I heard in their earlier recordings.…
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Corporate Welfare.10: Wrestelmania
I just read an incredible article by Dan O’Sullivan in Jacobin magazine about the abuse of wrestlers by their promoters, and in particular, by Vince McMahon and the WWE, (World Wrestling Entertainment.) I recently wrote about the film The Wrestler as a depiction of how wrestling performs the abuse of workers outside the ring by amplifying…
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Kickstarter up and running today
I launched a Kickstarter campaign to help pay for my forthcoming album today. You can check out the project description and rewards here. I just got back from spending 4 days recording with Scott Solter, Peter Hughes, Andrew Hiller and Louis Landry at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Recording Studio in Kernersville, NC, (pictured above.) One of…
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