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Category: Recordings

Audio that I’ve produced

  • Ball of Wax Volume 27

    I have a song on Ball of Wax #27, the quarterly audio comp (and, more recently, blog) my pal Levi Fuller has been putting out since 2005. This is my ninth appearance on the series, making me exactly 1/3rd committed to the project.

    As with every BoW release there’s a show, and I’ll be playing it, tomorrow (the 23rd) at the Sunset Tavern, starting around 9pm. Here’s a Facebook invite.

    As for the song, I submitted an old one that was initially meant for a different friend’s homemade horror movie. That was four years ago and he either never finished the movie or didn’t want the song, so there it is. You can listen to the comp and even (gasp) buy it right now at Bandcamp.

  • Boxcar CDs

    Last week the physical CDs for An Invitation to Love’s EP Boxcar arrived. They look like this:

    aitl boxcar ep

    We didn’t order very many and they’re mostly to send to radio and press and bookers. Otherwise we wouldn’t have ordered them. It’s weird because I like how they turned out, but I don’t like having CDs. It’s also weird because I can remember the first time I ordered CDs of my music and how exciting it was to receive them. That novelty’s worn off a bit!

    Either way, we decided on a release date (1/10/2012) and will try to get everyone to listen to it and write something about it or play it on the radio or book us to play their venue. That part’s still exciting.

  • Band news… An Invitation to Love

    That’s band news, not bad news. The opposite, actually: our EP is finished, and posted up on Bandcamp and on our website, and boom! Right here:

    [wp_bandcamp_player type=”album” id=”674982348″ size=”grande” bg_color=”#FFFFFF” link_color=”#4285BB”]

    It’s free, so go download it and blast it in your car stereo. There are still some things to do, like pick a cover image, and send copies to press and radio, and plan a release show. Those are just details. We already got some press, from the not-at-all-conflicted ball of wax blog. Thanks Levi!

  • Give/Sell released digitally today.. album release show coming up

    Time flies, it’s already been a while since these shows happened but I wanted to say a few words about them.

    First, on December 11 I went down to Portland to play at my friend Steve’s wife Kelli’s 30th birthday party. Steve rented the basement of a club called the Blue Monk, which is usually a jazz/blues club, and has a stage and PA and all that. And a buffet, naturally. The party was a mixed bunch, and for the most part strangers to me: friends and family of the birthday girl, old people, some kids, and then some musicians. It was a night of solo indie pop/folk performers, and (somewhat bizarrely) the headliner was Calvin Johnson (of Beat Happening, K Records fame).

    Us openers played short sets.. I played 5 songs, which were fun for  me as they came from 5 different projects: 1 song each from my first album, from give/sell, from mississippi painful, from an invitation to love, and then a new one. In all other ways my set was, let’s say, inconsistent with the idea of party/dinner music. But! It was short, and a few people were into it, and the other acts were in the same boat.

    Except Calvin Johnson, who happens to be a consummate performer. He was able to get the buffet crowd interested and involved in his performance. And he was great, playing from his solo albums. Here’s a picture from my phone, you can kind of tell who it is:

    Later on there was a  raffle and I won a Beat Happening LP. I had him sign it. I also drank all my drink tickets and napped through the drive home. A perfect trip! Here’s the album:

    signed:

    The week after, on December 16, I played at the Ball of Wax Volume 18 release party. That show was great for short attention spans.. lots of bands but they were constantly changing.. there’s a write-up for it here:

    http://www.seattleshowgal.com/ball-of-wax-18-cd-release-w-oldman-winter-levi-fuller-the-pica-beats-more/

    What was particularly fun about this show was our group’s configuration — Open Choir Fire, Seth Howard/Rosyvelt and myself were one of the composite bands — and it was the first time I’d played with that many people at the same time. It’s a big fad right now to have these big 7-or-more-member bands and I think I see why. Big sound and less pressure.

    Check out the Ball of Wax 18 webpage here:

    http://www.beeprepaired.com/oms.html

    You can buy Give/Sell at various digital locations starting today.. such as iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, eMusic. Of course you can also still get it for free at thegraze.net.

    The album release show is March 5 at Cafe Venus/Mars Bar, in Seattle… with Mississippi Painful and Seth Howard.

  • Hot or Huguenot music

    Go here:

    www.beeprepaired.com/oms.html

    and check out volume 18 of Levi Fuller’s Ball of Wax compilation series. I have a song on it under the Hot or Huguenot moniker.. it’s me and Sam from An Invitation to Love, but the song didn’t quite fit the AITL model. Hot or Huguenot can be our Allen Smithee of songwriting credit. Not that it’s a bad song. It’s ok actually.