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Lucy Gooch – Desert Window Listen/Purchase Desert Window sits somewhere between folk song and dream logic. Lucy Gooch’s layered vocals and soft electronics recall mid-era Björk …
New album "A Day in Bon Aqua" released
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 …
My new album, Semiotics, released today…
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 …
New Project…The Peasant Revolt – Calling Out
About three and half years ago, I spoke with Caldwell, from The Bubblegum Complex, about doing a record together and it really never panned out as we got caught up with life. With …
Help Craig Schumacher of WaveLab Studios
Craig Schumacher is a wonderful engineer and needs some help. He is the owner/operator of WaveLab Studios in Tucson where, among many others, he has recorded; Neko Case, Calexico, …
Patrick Krief – Zero Art Session – Recorded Live to 2-track on May 3rd, 2007
A few years ago I had the pleasure of sitting in my studio with my friend, Patrick Krief, and recording the 4 songs below. He was in town performing with his band, The Dears, and …
Old demos come to see the light of day- Demo – Tate Eskew – Waking Up
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 …
Bands In Town
Bands in Town is something I came across today and it seems pretty cool. It shows a tag cloud of artists that are playing in a specified area and the dates when they play. It will …
Week 10 – Weekly Song Experiment – Pneumonia
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 …
Week 09 – Weekly song experiment – Song For a Former Friend
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. …
Week 07 – Weekly Song Experiment – My Son
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 …
Week 06 – Weekly Song Experiment – Powered by Fear
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 …
Week 05 – Weekly Song Experiment – The Middle Way
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 …
Week 03 – Weekly Song Experiment – Oblivious
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 …
Week 02 – Weekly Song Experiment – Deny the Anxiety
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 …
Week 1 – Weekly Song Experiment – Bring It All To Me
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 …
Music and the brain…
Amy, my wife, got me the new Oliver Sacks book Musicophilia and it’s really incredible. I’ve just started reading it, but the book grabs you at the preface. I’ve …
david byrne – other peoples problems
there is a fantastic david byrne article over at wired magazine’s site. i love pretty much everything david byrne does, yes, even that crazy french shit on one of his recent …