New EPs Impressionsism, Meditations on "Abacab"

Two weeks since the last post=two new EPs. Meditations on "Abacab" is part of my Meditations series, where I engage with a pop song on a micro level, exploring a small part of it at a time; the titles obviously refer to where in the song that moment I'm working with is. My old way of engaging with pop songs that I loved was to write my own pop song that ripped them off, so I guess this is kind of the same, but without all the overhead. Impressionsism was the result of an unexpectedly abbreviated recording period, so I had to suddenly do whatever I was going to do in less than 20 minutes; always a good way to get the blood moving.

Bandcamp

So, at the risk of talking too much about it, here's the answer to the question "What is going on over at johnlindaman.bandcamp.com ?" Every week, I have approximately one hour to record. That usually results in about a half-hour of actual recording time, of which maybe twenty minutes is good. Everything is improvised, recorded live in one take, and uploaded to bandcamp without any mixing or mastering. It's about the most direct way I can think of to do it short of playing in your living room. The photos are all by Johanna Bauman. Also, there's no reverb, because I hate reverb.

Also, P.S.

I started this blog. Since I am not into talking about it, I'm just going to pretend I've been doing it for a long time already.

Do Whatever It Says

A new EP is up; this one's called Do Whatever It Says, and has, among other things, what ends up being a pretty good summation of what's been going on in my lungs over the last three months.