New EP: Denim Father

Most children today will never know how it feels to have a father clad in all denim, especially an entire suit made out of denim. Future historians can debate whether this is an advance, but until then there is this new EP.

New EP: Darling, Is It You?

One of my favorite things is when you can get sounds out of a guitar that people pay huge amounts of money for pedals to do, when actually it just takes an old bolt and a generic metal slide, like on the title track of this new EP. Limitation breeds increase, I suppose.

In the same way, one of the later tracks is, admittedly, sonically very reminiscent of "Let The Power Fall"-era Frippertronics, but with just a Rat pedal and a single delay, rather than a guitar synth and a bunch of tape machines. But, guilty as charged.

MXR Phase 90

For some reason the other day, I had a moment where I completely remembered the sensation of being transported out of the normal world by one of the first guitar effects pedals I had/borrowed, an MXR Phase 90. I can't remember if I actually owned it or if I just borrowed it from my friend Thadd, but the weird swooshing sound it made, which I can't really imagine even using now, was at the time completely captivating. God only knows where that pedal ended up, but I hope it is still swooshing away somewhere; it is also probably worth $600 now, with my luck.

New EP: Full Sun

Back from Germany and the Netherlands. Awesome to spend time in the Ruhrgebiet, where there appears to be actual appreciation for the cultural landscape of the industrial sublime. I now have enough photos for approximately 5 years of bandcamp EPs.

So I recorded this to start working my way through them.

New EP: Gentle Blood Waves

Off to Bochum and Leiden for a week and a half, so I figured I'd should get this out first. Hopefully more pictures of the industrial sublime, and also some fun.

New EP: Meditations on "Here Comes The Rain Again"

Traveling a lot, so not as much recording, but I busted out this EP this morning since it is yet another rainy day. And what brightens up a rainy day more than prepared guitar?

Speaking of prepared guitar, if you go to bandcamp and search for everything tagged "prepared guitar", I am alternately the first or second most popular there. My pride in this achievement is tempered only slightly by the knowledge that, if my statistics are anything to go by, literally nobody must ever visit the pages of the other six or seven prepared guitar guys. Still, number one! Number one!

New EP: Wild Budgets

After a few weeks off due to traveling and a melted hard drive, back on schedule with a new EP called Wild Budgets that I think is frankly one of the best things I've done in weeks. It also has a bonus track from some recording I did a few days earlier to get things up and running again.
Here's the "cover".



In the interim, Chris Deaner and I also recorded a version of one of our songs from The Solitary Cyclist which will hopefully end up being the theme music for Saveur.com's Ask The Test Kitchen. I was disappointed that the fact that we were involved meant that there was no money to pay the legal fees for a version of R. Kelly's "Test In The Kitchen", but that's how it goes.