January Time Is Here
Friday, January 11, 2008
Thanks to everyone who made it out to Johnny Brenda's for Gemini Wolf's show last weekend. We played to probably our biggest crowd since the album release show back in May. The bands were super tight, the crowd was amazing, the sound was booming, Bilwa held it down on the decks. It was a super-duper night all around. Mike O'Brien took some fine pictures, you can view some at Gemini Wolf's Myspace over here.
We're taking at least January off to do some recording and write some new songs. We just started working on new songs this week and were very excited about Gemini Wolf stuff for 2008. We're in the process of setting up some really spectacular shows in March, April and May with Kilo and Pink Skull. Also in the works is another New England Tour for May.
I just got back from a brilliant lecture / interview with Maria Schneider. She's a composer who has studied with Bob Brookmeyer and Gil Evans. She has a very unique approach to composing and explaining her process. At the talk she played some of her pieces on CD and explained the rhythms and motifs she choose and how she bridges traditional jazz and classical theory. It was kind of like a DVD commentary with the director sitting there, explaining their process. Another interesting part of the talk dealt with her label / artists' collective called Artists Share. This label allows listeners to contribute financially and be involved in the music making process with the artist. It's a great way to allow fans to support musicians directly and getting something more than a recorded song out of the process. Artists with Artists Share do things like webcast video of them recording their album, post rough mixes and sketches of their works in progress, allow contributers to come the recordings and get their names listed as executive producers on the album. As giant mega-labels continue to die off, this sort of model, I think, will be the future of music.
Speaking of giant mega-labels, earSnake is slithering along nicely. We're moving things along slowly as we crawl from our holiday egg. After the success of the 12 Days Podcast, we're just gathering our thoughts and planning the next steps. We're in the process now of getting Gemini Wolf's first CD re-packaged. When we initially released the album, it was a limited edition hand made pressing with four different album covers culled from Pandar's "House of Josiah" photo series. The official earSnake release will have some different artwork and packaging. We expect those CD sometime next week. For now you can purchase the CD directly from earSnake.com and we'll ship the new version of the CD when we get it. By March, at the latest, the album will be available on iTunes, Emusic, Napster, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc.
Lastly, my Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd co-collaborators Bilwa and Emily Sweeney will be doing a performance this weekend at the Community Education Center as part of the New Edge Mix series, where they'll be premiering "moved," a new work inspired by the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. The performances are Friday 1/11 and Saturday 1/12 at 8:00 PM and Sunday 1/13 at 3:00. The CEC is at 35th and Lancaster Ave in West Philly.
We're taking at least January off to do some recording and write some new songs. We just started working on new songs this week and were very excited about Gemini Wolf stuff for 2008. We're in the process of setting up some really spectacular shows in March, April and May with Kilo and Pink Skull. Also in the works is another New England Tour for May.
I just got back from a brilliant lecture / interview with Maria Schneider. She's a composer who has studied with Bob Brookmeyer and Gil Evans. She has a very unique approach to composing and explaining her process. At the talk she played some of her pieces on CD and explained the rhythms and motifs she choose and how she bridges traditional jazz and classical theory. It was kind of like a DVD commentary with the director sitting there, explaining their process. Another interesting part of the talk dealt with her label / artists' collective called Artists Share. This label allows listeners to contribute financially and be involved in the music making process with the artist. It's a great way to allow fans to support musicians directly and getting something more than a recorded song out of the process. Artists with Artists Share do things like webcast video of them recording their album, post rough mixes and sketches of their works in progress, allow contributers to come the recordings and get their names listed as executive producers on the album. As giant mega-labels continue to die off, this sort of model, I think, will be the future of music.
Speaking of giant mega-labels, earSnake is slithering along nicely. We're moving things along slowly as we crawl from our holiday egg. After the success of the 12 Days Podcast, we're just gathering our thoughts and planning the next steps. We're in the process now of getting Gemini Wolf's first CD re-packaged. When we initially released the album, it was a limited edition hand made pressing with four different album covers culled from Pandar's "House of Josiah" photo series. The official earSnake release will have some different artwork and packaging. We expect those CD sometime next week. For now you can purchase the CD directly from earSnake.com and we'll ship the new version of the CD when we get it. By March, at the latest, the album will be available on iTunes, Emusic, Napster, Rhapsody, Amazon, etc.
Lastly, my Perpetual Mvmt< >Snd co-collaborators Bilwa and Emily Sweeney will be doing a performance this weekend at the Community Education Center as part of the New Edge Mix series, where they'll be premiering "moved," a new work inspired by the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. The performances are Friday 1/11 and Saturday 1/12 at 8:00 PM and Sunday 1/13 at 3:00. The CEC is at 35th and Lancaster Ave in West Philly.