Sorry I haven't posted anything recently - January has been quite the beast so far. Here are three more demos I created in Prague that I would like to share with you. These ideas are part of a continuing series I'm releasing to provide a better idea of the types of things I was creating in Prague during the lead-up to By The Numbers. If you have any questions about them feel free to email me.
I'd like to tell you a little about my friend Dominic Guarnaschelli. We went to high school together in Louisville, KY, where he now lives in a wonderfully quaint house a couple miles from downtown. He's a brilliant artist, working not only in photography, but also sculpture, drawing, video art installations and more. And he's quite the accomplished chef as well!
You can learn more about him and his work through the link to his website below.
GUARNASCHELLI STUDIO
I went to Masterdisk up on 45th Street earlier this week to finish mastering the new EP. Next week I'm going to send all the music off the manufacturer. Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), it's always a pleasant feeling to be finished with a project such as this, to be able to listen to something that you've imagined in your head for many months, to let it go and move onto something new. And now all I need to do is take the necessary steps to share it with you. So back to work on that I go.
I was listening to this demo yesterday and felt like posting it. It's from the collection of ideas I composed in Prague that were the basis for the new EP. It reminds me a little of the Gershon Kingsley song "Popcorn" that my parents used to play on their old phonograph player. Anyway, I wrote several short electronic compositions like this during my time in Prague and wanted to share one with you. So here it is...
Here are a few songs from a show I played earlier this year at Kenny's Castaways in Greenwich Village. Many thanks to The Galt Line for recording my set.
Thanks to Red Tie Mafia for inviting me back to The Vintage Lounge to play a few songs. Here's a short video from the evening...
I'm playing a special show next Wednesday called Grudge Match. It's a monthly series put together by the fabulous Joe Yoga - it features three musicians versus three comedians in alternating sets. It's held downstairs at the venerable Lucky Cheng's on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Here's a video that will give you some more information...
promo video for Grudge Match - Music vs. Comedy to the death! directed by Joe Yoga wed oct 21 @ Lucky Cheng's Basement www.amusecollective.com for more info
Photo courtesy of John Murdock
So everything, as they say, is in it's place. We've begun mixing over in Brooklyn and should be finished with the first round by the end of the week. Then we'll sit with things for a week or so before coming to make a few changes here and there.
Anyway, just an update. Hope all is well. More coming soon...
Here's a link to a list of videos from my show at the Evening Muse earlier this month. Many thanks to schmakt for recording and editing all of it.
In the midst of my trip down to North Carolina, I drove up to the Blue Ridge Parkway to get out of the city and think for a while. I came upon a place I'd visited years before called Linville Falls and found myself surrounded by green for the first time in over a year of living in New York City. It was a welcome respite from months of glass and concrete. Here's a photograph...
So I just returned from a 10 day tour down to North Carolina. It was a fairly challenging journey to be sure - I learned a few new things and traveled down some old paths. I can't help but feel empowered, even though the whole ordeal was quite taxing at times. Thank you so much to everyone who helped me out along the way - it meant more than you could ever imagine. I'll see all of you again soon...
Over the past week and a half, we've been editing the first round of vocals that I recorded at The Gallery earlier this month. The process basically consists of me listening to every take numerous times, then choosing the best performance. This has never been my favorite part of making a record, but it's obviously a necessary one. When I'm through with this stage, we'll move onto harmonies, edit those, then figure out what else we need before we finally graduate to mixing. Ah mixing, that's usually much more fun. Anyway, back to work...
Someone named Hugh Jazz signed up on my mailing list.
Well played sir.
Kim's Video in the West Village is closing today. We've been renting our movies there ever since we moved here. It was our favorite place to find obscure films that few others carried. Apparently its closure is the result of rising rents and the economy and so forth - whatever the reason is, this sucks.
I wish the owners and employees all the best with their future endeavors. Thanks for all the great movies.
