I got invited by the wonderful Karin Hauger, an instructor of Music History at the University of Colorado Denver, to speak to her class about being a musician. It was a great honor and I had the prescience to record it with my phone! So here is the audio of my lecture, along with the [...]
Ornaments is a Christmas album project dreamed up by my friend Jeremy Cordy. He approached me in early November 2009 with the idea of gathering the various musically talented friends we had to try to put together something beautiful. I couldnʼt be more pleased with the results. Comprised of almost entirely original songs, the project [...]
A musical colleague of mine who performs beneath the veil of a shifting team of collaborators known as Night Shall Eat These Girls And Boys has a song that immediately caught my ears. The song isn’t flashy, doesn’t sabotage nor reinvent any genres, nor does it have a mind-blowing production value in the humble recording [...]
On the way to Chicago I shot this video and then edited it in my hotel room. Enjoy. Tokyo Witch (Music Video) from Michael Edwards on Vimeo.
What you should know Working on some songs with Lee Bozeman still. (I really owe this more focus ASAP). Stop Don’t Stop EP still in the works. Drums, Bass, Guitars are finished. Vocals and Aux Percussion still needed, plus any extra “spices” we will add. I have also been tracking the new Michael Edwards LP [...]
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 [...]
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Night Shall Eat These Girls And Boys from Michael Edwards on Vimeo.
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 [...]
Monday night Shelby and I got to go see Radiohead at Blossom in Cleveland. It was fantastic. They played 26 songs over the course of about 2 hours. Wow! Here a couple of indecipherable pics followed by the set list. 15 steps there there morning bell all I need pyramid song nude weird fishes / [...]