New EP "Platinum Cadavers"

Once again, a few weeks have elapsed. New EP up on bandcamp: Platinum Cadavers. Recorded in the morning before I went to do some recording with old friend and bandleader Heather McIntosh for a soundtrack she's working on; nice to play (even if at a distance) with some of the dispersed members of the NYC version of The Instruments.

This EP features, as almost always, the Digitech PDS-8000, an 8 second delay I bought in 1988 for $150 from a horrible, now-defunct music store in the DC suburbs. They were the classic place that refused to even look at you if you didn't walk in carrying a roll of money; they were so disdainful of me that the guy ringing me up couldn't even be bothered to gouge me correctly, and charged me for the cheaper 2 second model. One awesome thing about this delay is that, in its old age, the speed and depth of the delay modulation are now almost completely random. I'm not really into gear, or sentimental about it, but I could be sentimental about this guy.

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.