There are many projects on the horizon this year that I’m working on. All Things Bright & Beautiful has some upcoming songs, Dunvint’s debut LP is on the way, Stop Don’t Stop EP (“Some Kind Of Change”), and my forthcoming LP which has lots of post-apocalyptic scenarios and involves lakes and orchards and militias and orphans and more (but no, this won’t be like the Decemberists. I refuse to have barrow boys and chimbley sweeps and scurvy in my music). It might get tough to finish all of these projects in a timely fashion, because there are a ton of weddings this year, not to mention my own!
This is also the year where I shall cross the quarter-century mark. Perhaps I can raise a guinness glass in the air with some of my friends who I don’t get to see very often anymore. I would like that.
Godspeed to my brother who will be interviewed for a chance to be admitted to Columbia University in New York for a masters program in (correct me if I’m wrong) Fine Arts!
Well, I wanted to sit here and write something more but it’s almost 1AM and the words aren’t coming. I shall invite the muse to come along next time.
This song was previously put out as a demo on the Pseudobook Music Blog, so I feel no qualms with posting this refreshed mix of it, with redone vocals. More to come!
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It has become clear that the Dunvint EP will not be done this year. Instead of a victory lap it seems that the road gets longer the more we work on it. But that’s because we have high standards and want this to be great! It’s also because we all have full time jobs and don’t get to work on it nearly as much as we would like.
I invited Tom Wade to contribute to the project. It’s good to have another personality in the mix. A couple of weeks ago Benji and Tom came over during the weekend and we did a lot more sampling. I haven’t gotten around to using the noises yet, but I’m excited about some of the things that were tapped, smacked, rubbed, scraped, and thumped (does this sound sinful yet? You need to get into the head of a foley artist!).
I’m itching to put together some live performances. I’d like to arrange a version of Snowy Morning — even more stripped down to banjo, light percussion, and a couple of vocals.
This past weekend the venerable Benji Robinson came to Bowling Green and we tracked some drums and spent almost an hour sampling various sounds in the house, including rubber bands, silverware, dish washer doors, faucets, cardboard boxes, coins, and scissors. These will be used to build beats and atmosphere as we aspire to complete a 4-5 song EP to be released within 2 months.
I would be very pleased if we had this out by Christmas time. I think it’s the only other musical release I’ll manage to get out this year, but it’s exciting.
I took some video while we recorded and hopefully I can get it posted here within a day or two.
This past weekend my friend Benji Robinson visited and we spent some time recording a number of drum tracks for Dunvint. There is no web home for Dunvint yet, so I keep pointing links to the entry on the Pseudobook Music Blog which can be found here. That’s our demo song of our (not avant garde, but very fun) mixture of rock and roll with sampling. I’m a melody man, so I prefer to anchor my songs with lyrics and in some sense center-of-attention vocals, but I think we’ve got some very nice songs up our sleeves.
Benji is very, very good at drums and has been exercising his click-track playing. I dream of someday performing this music live and doing it justice. Until then, we have some work to do learning best how to mix computers and live sounds.
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