"big world" vs. "student body"
wrote a pretty long but skeletal entry a few weeks ago and never published it. it's private, i guess, on the beauty of music and life or something, and being on the brink of real excitement. i'm in a similar sort of mood today: brainstorming, planning a film, making music mixes, vibing carefree. last night was a monumental (not necessarily in terms of number of attendees, although there were a lot) sendoff for ross and tim, two of my best friends who are headed back for the second half of the appalachian trail after a two-week respite. tim's stepdad charlie had cancer and got pretty bad before he passed away last wednesday night, so tim made it into town to support his mom the weekend previous. very good to be around so many friends. chris and wes came, andrew and sean made the trip from pittsburgh... the cops even made a visit.
i can't get over how i missed can's ege bamyasi LP. i'm pretty into their other albums, but this is the shit. perfect mix of breakbeats, funk and general groove without being overbearingly cheesy (or cheesy at all), and it still functions as a rock/kind of krauty, very cool record. just close your ears or turn your attention to something besides the little slaps and pops on "pinch":)
oh, also i've been playing a ton of music lately, both at home and in public. here is a recording of a collaboration between jeremy hedges, john eastridge, mike kasunic and me: http://dogchirp.com/mike/Noctuelles%20-%20Pittsburgh%205.2.7.MP3. the group is called NOCTUELLES, and it was assembled to play a show at john's place with ospreys, plain lace (matt from navies), and church clothes.
additionally, next week i'm playing guitar and saxophone in david bernabo's ASSEMBLY (raymond morin, josh chucklebeyer, dave and me) for the release of the album by the same name. behold:
the next musical (ad)venture i'm involved in, i want it to be called "big world".
i can't get over how i missed can's ege bamyasi LP. i'm pretty into their other albums, but this is the shit. perfect mix of breakbeats, funk and general groove without being overbearingly cheesy (or cheesy at all), and it still functions as a rock/kind of krauty, very cool record. just close your ears or turn your attention to something besides the little slaps and pops on "pinch":)
oh, also i've been playing a ton of music lately, both at home and in public. here is a recording of a collaboration between jeremy hedges, john eastridge, mike kasunic and me: http://dogchirp.com/mike/Noctuelles%20-%20Pittsburgh%205.2.7.MP3. the group is called NOCTUELLES, and it was assembled to play a show at john's place with ospreys, plain lace (matt from navies), and church clothes.
additionally, next week i'm playing guitar and saxophone in david bernabo's ASSEMBLY (raymond morin, josh chucklebeyer, dave and me) for the release of the album by the same name. behold:
the next musical (ad)venture i'm involved in, i want it to be called "big world".