Tate's Music on Tate Eskew

New album "A Day in Bon Aqua" released

Fri, 09 Mar 2018 19:47:03 +0000

What a day it was! A few bats emerged to fill the expedited spring twilight to eagerly dive-bomb unsuspecting insects that must be confused by the unanticipated elements. Adept at moves usually offered by barn swallows during late summer evenings as they dart about just above the field full of uncut hay seemingly tied to the tail of a kite. A bullfrog even spoke upâ€¦perhaps hoping to find some early romance or maybe even warn the other virile croakers in the area that this is his year. Let it be our year.

Recording from recent show…

Sun, 07 Sep 2014 02:49:03 +0000

FMRL Presents a Spectrum of Guitar

http://fmrlarts.org/2014/08/27/fmrl-presents-a-spectrum-of-guitar-w-sir-richard-bishop-tashi-dorji-and-tate-eskew/

Line-up order:
Tate Eskew – Set starts at 0:00
Tashi Dorji – Set starts at 22:28
Sir Richard Bishop – Set starts at 1:00:20

Special thanks to Chris Davis, Emily Holt, Amy Eskew, Scott Spiedel, Brian Murphree, and Ernie Paik. Also to Emma and Yazoo Brewing Co. for their arts patronage.

New album entitled Oldowan out now…

Wed, 19 Mar 2014 20:43:38 +0000

My newest release, oldowan, has been released on Functional Equivalent Recordings. You can buy a limited edition cassette (48 of them made), which is an imprinted cassette within a black muscletone custom case and comes inside of a drawstring burlap bag.

Tate Eskew explores minimalist guitar drone in two 11 minute pieces with the release of “oldowan”. Exploration of regenerative ecology and indigenous culture inspired the two compositions. Instances of calm reflectiveness are slowly interrupted by passages of anxiety and moments of contentment.

New EP “oldowan” Artwork and Tracklist

Thu, 06 Feb 2014 18:10:42 +0000

Here is the artwork for the new EP I will be releasing soon on cassette and digitally. It’s minimalist guitar drone in 2 pieces with each being 11 minutes long. I have two other releases nearing completion that I hope to get out within the year as well. More on those later. Here are the artwork and tracklist for the new EP.

Habilis – 11:17

Ergaster – 11:17

My new album, Semiotics, released today…

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:23:42 +0000

This has been a long time coming, but as of today my new album Semiotics comes out today on Function Equivalent Recordings. I’ve spent an immeasurable amount of time on this recording. It has been recorded in my home studio over the past few years as I have moved around. At times, I had no studio and I wasn’t able to work on the album at all. Other times, I was so full of ideas I couldn’t get them down quick enough. This is the object of that process.

New Video – Calm Future off of Modality EP

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 01:56:13 +0000

Here is the new video for the last track off of my newest ambient/noise EP. The track is called Calm Future. You can buy the new EP HERE.

My new ambient/noise EP entitled Modality released today…

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:04:22 +0000

Today my new ambient/noise EP entitled Modality is available to the public. I’ve been writing, improvising and recording this type of music for years, yet this is my first release to the public. I have always done this type of stuff for myself as a release from my normal songwriting and I felt like it was time to let a few songs go. It’s full of resonating drones, noise guitar and quiet patience.

Demo – Tate Eskew – Comet Is Closer

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:38:12 +0000

Here is another demo. This song is was actually recorded for my record, Semiotics. This is the first demo I did for this song on a 4-track cassette. It’s only guitars and some of the parts have now changed in the final version. here it is:

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Old demos come to see the light of day- Demo – Tate Eskew – Waking Up

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 02:33:44 +0000

So, I was thinking the other day that I should just start posting old demos of songs that I have laying around. My friend Chad was kind enough to dig through old CDs and old computer drives to find a bulk of this stuff. Most of it I had forgotten about. Some of it is cool, some are mediocre and some of it is total shit.

The first track I’m going to post is called Waking Up. I did this demo around 10 years ago. I’m pretty sure at a dark time. I originally wrote the song in about 1997 while living in a smoke-filled apartment in Los(t) Angeles. I’ve always wanted to record this song again in my studio with layers of guitars, but have never done it. Maybe it’ll just stay as is in a time vault.

Summer heat and new songwriting

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:47:03 +0000

Well, the summer heat has put its filthy hands on Middle Tennessee. the good part is that the garden loves it and fresh strawberries were picked just last week. Incredible…

Believe it or not, I’ve started writing new songs when time is available and I’m very happy with what has come about so far. I miss very much having my studio, as it’s a huge part of my writing process, but I’m also excited to see how the new stuff turns out since I don’t have that at my disposal for now. With that said, I’m going to try to finish my album Semiotics by year-end (before baby #2 comes). If it’s not finished by then, it may be a while…

Week 10 – Weekly Song Experiment – Pneumonia

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:25:26 +0000

I’m not sure how I did it this week. I started recording this song at 9 o’clock tonight. It’s now 10:21. I recorded this up in the bonus room bathroom. I’ve been sick as all get out this past week and I’m still not over it. I couldn’t sing and I feel pretty bad at the moment. We also are living amongst boxes at the new house. This week was a struggle.

Week 09 – Weekly song experiment – Song For a Former Friend

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:43:19 +0000

Here we are at week 9. I have no idea how I wrote and recorded a song this week. This week we moved everything out to our new house and we have tons of sorting and unpacking to do.

This week’s song is called Song For a Former Friend. Head over to the weekly song experiment page to take a listen. Thanks again for your email and notes.

Week 08 – Weekly Song Experiment – Quiet, Tired and Other Things

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:14:23 +0000

This week was a complete blur. In fact, tonight is the only night I was able to record and it was performed under very heavy eyes. We are in the process of moving to our new house and there is a lot of work to be done so this week’s song is just 3 guitar parts and I think it shows the kind of mood at the moment. Tt’s entitled Quiet, Tired and Other Things

Week 07 – Weekly Song Experiment – My Son

Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:52:25 +0000

Here it is. This week’s installment of the weekly song experiment. This week’s song is about our son, Daniel and I conned my wife Amy into singing it with me. I think she did a great job and she’s also pretty.

Thanks, everyone for the comments and emails. I always appreciate getting them and I do respond to every one of them.

So, head over to the weekly song experiment page and take a listen to the song for this week, M_y Son_

Week 06 – Weekly Song Experiment – Powered by Fear

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:12:28 +0000

This week I was able to sing again. The head cold has passed. I was able to knock this song out within a few days this week. We’ve been incredibly busy working on the new house so that we can get moved in, but I’m enjoying trying to cram music time in. It really does feel great to just create it and let it go. I don’t know how many people are out there listening, but it really doesn’t matter. It’s out there.

Week 05 – Weekly Song Experiment – The Middle Way

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:19:35 +0000

I’ve had a head cold all week so I wasn’t able to write anything with lyrics, so what you get is another instrumental piece. This week’s song is entitled The Middle Way.

Pushing myself to practice this and I think the song portrays a piece of that.

Head over to the weekly song experiment page to listen to the new song.

Week 04 – Weekly Song Experiment – Your Plan

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:10:06 +0000

Well, here it is. This week’s song experiment.

Head over to the weekly song experiment page to listen or download the new song – Y_our Plan_

Week 03 – Weekly Song Experiment – Oblivious

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:56:55 +0000

The new song for my weekly song experiment has been posted. I also added links so you could download them in Ogg format if that’s your bag. During the week sometime I will probably add links to include FLAC encoded files.

The project is proving difficult to fit in with the time available, but it’s a really good experiment.

Anyway, the new song is entitled O_blivious_. Head over to the weekly song experiment page to listen or download.

Week 02 – Weekly Song Experiment – Deny the Anxiety

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:08:49 +0000

Well, I’ve managed to get another song done this week. You can check it out over at the weekly song experiment page. The weeks are getting quite busy as I have a lot of things to do over the next couple of weeks. It should make for an interesting go at it with these songs.
It’s very weird not to use my studio monitors to mix these experiments. I’m only using headphones, so if the low end isn’t 100% correct, well, now you know why.

Week 1 – Weekly Song Experiment – Bring It All To Me

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:23:13 +0000

I’ve decided to start a new weekly song experiment for 2008. You can read about it on the weekly song experiment page. I’m not sure how I’m going to cram this into the limited time I already have, but I think it would be a good exercise to take on.

The first song is posted and from here on out the weekly song/piece of music will be posted on either Sunday or Monday. The first song is entitled Bring It All To Me.