Tag: Shrimper Records
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Arches & Pathways: New Album with Dennis Callaci Streaming Now!
I have a new record coming out on 11/20/20 that I made with my friend Dennis Callaci at his house in July of 2019, fresh off a fun tour of New Zealand and Australia. It comes out on Friday but you can stream the whole thing via Magnet Magazine online, right now. It was mixed…
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Pure Night Plus Released
On Friday, September 25th, this 2xCD 50 track reissue/compilation of early solo recordings that had not previously been digitized was released by Shrimper and Inundation. It’s available now through Bandcamp, Grapefruit Records, and Midheaven, as well as streaming on the usual suspects. Many thanks to those who preordered, and who helped put together, this archival…
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Top 40 Over 40.22: Callaci & Sons reach The End of Night
Sometimes musicians I know tip their hand by commenting on the records they love. For years, Dennis Callaci has circled back to recommending Ornette Coleman’s 1966 album The Empty Foxhole. Ornette recorded the album with his son Denardo Coleman, then only 10 years old, on drums. Not considered a part of the great Ornette albums…
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Our record came out today
I started writing these songs back in 2010. 7 and 3/4 years later they are out there, it’s pretty cool. Early reviews from Ghettoblaster Magazine, With A Messy Head and Popdust.Com are already out with more to come from Magnet, Bandcamp, and others. Magnet premiered Contamination In the Grass last week, while The Big Takeover premiered…
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Bandcamp store now open
Our new record El Pulpo comes out in the US on October 20th, October 14th if you buy the Shrimper Records tape version from a participating brick and mortar store on Cassette Store Day. For the first time, I will be selling music through Bandcamp. I’ve uploaded the new double album as the homepage, (download,…
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New Cassette Released Today!
If you’re into hypnosis, you might like a minimal instrumental piece I just released on cassette and digital download from Unread Records this very day. It’s a 45 minute long instrumental version of a song from my forthcoming record called We’ll Teach Them How to Privatize. The cover of the cassette features degraded xeroxed pictures…
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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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Other John Davises.6: John Davis, Shrimper
Disambiguation: the issue haunts all John Davises, musical and otherwise. How to reach today’s web surfing music consumer when your name is ubiquitous? In the record store era, folks had only had to know enough about the alphabet to figure out that John Davis would come shortly before John Denver in the D section. Know enough…
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Preview.2
You can now hear the second song to be released from my forthcoming album Spare Parts, courtesy of Impose magazine at the following link: http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/john-davis-the-wrong-tree-mp3 The song is called “The Wrong Tree,” and features Jose Medeles on percussion and drums. It also features backing vocals by Laura Burhenn, Megan Siebe, and Sarah Gleason. I played…
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