Tag: Music
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Love in the Time of Capital vinyl now available through Bandcamp
If you would like to support your local brick and mortar record store great! You will be able to get this there starting in August but for now advance copies are available only on my Bandcamp page and at live shows. Green Red and White Allright!
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Listening to.2: While Whirling by Frantz Loriot
The viola is a beautiful instrument but not often a surprising one. Not so here. I know very little about this record, but I do know that it explores the viola in ways that are unusual but aesthetically successful and fully developed. It reminds me of textures from electronic music, which it may be influenced…
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Gnawing on the Bone now available!
The upcoming releases section of this website has felt a bit like a closet in need of cleaning out. That load has lightened as of yesterday with the digital release on Bandcamp of Gnawing on the Bone. This is an instrumental project that was written in Watertown MA in 2011 in one sitting as a…
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Top 40 Over 40.25: Wise Intelligent
Even rarer than artists making great records after 40 is those who are able to do so in quick succession. Back when I was high school, Hüsker Dü released New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig only 8 months apart. It’s hard to imagine young bands doing that in today’s post-internet crash music economy, let…
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Band that Rocked the Cradle
You can see video of 7 songs from the debut set of the live line up of John Davis & The Cicadas here. This show took place on August 3rd 2015 at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC. Our next show at the moment is booked for October 24th at Union Hall in Brooklyn, NYC. I…
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Live on Radio Tomorrow Night @ 8
Brice Randall Bickford and I will be having a joint appearance on WXYC 89.3 FM in Chapel Hill tomorrow night, (August 2nd) from 8 – 9 pm. We’ll both play 20 minute live solo sets and chat with the DJ for 20 more in advance of our double bill at Cat’s Cradle on Monday 8/3.…
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Cat’s Got my Tongue
I’ll be playing my first show in many moons on August 3rd at the Cat’s Cradle Backroom in Carrboro, NC. Brice Randall Bickford will be opening. This will be a full band show with 6+ guests. I’m especially looking forward to playing live with Peter Hughes, one of the first friends I made in this…
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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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New Page with Sound Cloud link for Outtakes, Ephemera
Today I put up a new page on the menu of this site that links to a SoundCloud playlist where I’ll be posting a rotating cast of outtakes and demos and ephemera. Read the new page here – and happy new year to all!!!! All instrumental tracks are now done for the new record. There…