seasons followed one another / get back to basics, step up and face me...
so if you're on facecrack you may have seen already: I HAVE A SHOW AT ZAPHOD'S!
yes, at long last, after more than 4 years, i will step onto the stage to perform live music. all by myself. just me and a guitar (and i'm pondering some pre-recorded tracks, but it depends on my mood over the next few weeks; i may just keep the songs stripped down to acoustic-style).
the deets: Monday, November 24th @ Zaphod Beeblebrox (27 york st. in the byward market). and it's FREE! i will be opening for Carmen & Camille, a vancouver twin sister pop duo. doors at 8p.m., i will probably hit the stage around 9p.m.
i know it's a monday, but hey, it's free! and this is my first live performance in years, so come out and support me if you're in the ottawa area. it will be entertaining, i assure you. i am practicing all sorts of material, dating back from 2000 to present.
here is the link to the facecrack invite: jacob live @ zaphod's.
as long as i'm talking about music, i will note a couple of semi-related topics:
oh, also, i went running again tonight. trying to keep it up, even though i've been lazy about it. i went with shaun tonight, on my 2 km route. he was being slow, so our time was 18:01.48 minutes. really sucky. we walked a whole lot, even though i cound have ran the whole way. but i guess it was a good social time too. and admittedly, it's harder on the lungs in the colder weather (although today was actually fairly warm). i'm determined to keep running through the winter, even if it is only once a week. just so i don't get out of practice, and become a total couch sloth again.
yes, at long last, after more than 4 years, i will step onto the stage to perform live music. all by myself. just me and a guitar (and i'm pondering some pre-recorded tracks, but it depends on my mood over the next few weeks; i may just keep the songs stripped down to acoustic-style).
the deets: Monday, November 24th @ Zaphod Beeblebrox (27 york st. in the byward market). and it's FREE! i will be opening for Carmen & Camille, a vancouver twin sister pop duo. doors at 8p.m., i will probably hit the stage around 9p.m.
i know it's a monday, but hey, it's free! and this is my first live performance in years, so come out and support me if you're in the ottawa area. it will be entertaining, i assure you. i am practicing all sorts of material, dating back from 2000 to present.
here is the link to the facecrack invite: jacob live @ zaphod's.
as long as i'm talking about music, i will note a couple of semi-related topics:
- i went to zaphod's to see the That's the spirit. CD release party on saturday night. boy was it awesome! i picked up a copy of the CD, which i sincerely think is Ben Wilson's best stuff to date (and given his prolific history in the ottawa scene and beyond over the past 13 years or so, that's saying a lot). it exudes beautiful soundscapes. touching and thought-provoking lyrics. prodigiously composed, arranged, and executed. a real stand out DIY production, this album is all the best things about real indie music with none of the pretention. don't be surprised if Staying Places hits my best of 2008 list in the top ten somewhere.
- haven't you all been wondering what i have been up to in my recording lately? i know i have been silent on the subject for a couple of months. well i have also been busy. my third and final EP of 2008 is almost complete. it is entitled we have lost contact, and it consists of 5 brand new tracks, along the theme of losing touch, distancing, diaspora, all in the personal intimate sense and in the global sense. in some ways, it is the natural denouement to the two EPs that preceded it; the hoods is life, old habits die hard is death, we have lost contact is the afterglow. eventually things must move on again. if all goes as planned, i will be releasing these 3 EPs together in a limited 3 CD album in early 2009; the whole collection is tentatively titled i've counted the days since we parted ways. i will premier a few new tracks from these 3 EPs at my show on the 24th.
oh, also, i went running again tonight. trying to keep it up, even though i've been lazy about it. i went with shaun tonight, on my 2 km route. he was being slow, so our time was 18:01.48 minutes. really sucky. we walked a whole lot, even though i cound have ran the whole way. but i guess it was a good social time too. and admittedly, it's harder on the lungs in the colder weather (although today was actually fairly warm). i'm determined to keep running through the winter, even if it is only once a week. just so i don't get out of practice, and become a total couch sloth again.