Tag: Music
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The Residents and the Arctic
I rarely hear an entire record played on the radio. A few months ago, I heard the album Eskimo by the Residents played on WXDU’s stellar Sunday afternoon show, Polyphonic Perversity. I soon purchased it and have really enjoyed hanging out with it since. I know very little about the Residents, so I won’t say…
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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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Radio Rescheduling: WXDU 8/24 7-8 pm
I’ll be doing an interview on WXDU, (88.7 fm in Durham, WXDU.org online,) from 7 to 8 pm on Sunday night August the 24th. This was supposed to take place on 8/17, but had to be rescheduled because the DJ was involved in an accident. I’ll be playing some rough mixes from the record I’m…
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Meet the Octopus
I just uploaded a rough mix of one of the tunes I’m working on for my next record on the page of the Kickstarter I’m running to support it. You can check it out by clicking here, or on the photo above. It’s called El Pulpo, a handle I got from the book Inevitable Revolutions…
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On the Radio
(POSTPONED since first posted – see below.) I’ll be discussing my new album and playing some demos and rough mixes from the project on WXDU in Durham, NC on any given Sunday <formerly 8/17> from 6 to 7 pm. You can listen live online at WXDU.org, or if you are local, on your FM dial at…
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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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The Core is Getting Soft.12: Goldbaby for Less Silver
Goldbaby is the stage name of a dude named Hugo down in New Zealand who makes fantastic sample libraries of drum machines, sound fx and synthesizers processed through choice outboard analog gear and tape machines. Denziens of online forums like Gearslutz revere him, and his friendly responses in those nether regions suggests he’s a nice…
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Studio Samsara
I found this on Francis Prève‘s Facebook page. To this I would add step 7, “I am awesome,” and then step 8, “Go back to step 1.” Then it would be an even better representation of what I like to call “Studio samsara.” The Buddha used the term samsara to refer to the endless cycle…
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Snippets of Repeated Takes
I recently finished and highly recommend the book Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. My main criticism of the book is that it’s large size makes you think it’s gonna have lots of cool illustrations in it. Instead, you get a conventional size text layout with blank margins so big they call to mind the immense foul grounds…
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