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.

Prepared Guitar Interview… 13 Questions

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:25:03 +0000

Recently I was approached by the wonderful Prepared Guitar weblog, which is written by the admirable Miguel Copon. Miguel is a professor at the Instituto de Arte ContemporÃ¡neo in Madrid, Spain. I think it’s incredible that he is documenting such a lovely topic and I was very flattered to have been asked to do an interview.

I’m a true believer in community and I think Miguel has created awareness and community in an area that is very dear to me and a lot of my friends. Keep up with your phenomenal work Miguel, and I very much look forward to playing in front of you in the future.

FMRL Arts

Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:04:53 +0000

Over the last few months, my friend Chris Davis and I have been putting on shows in Nashville as FMRL. We’ve already hosted a number of wonderful events which have included the likes of Jason Lescalleet, Jeremy Bible, Dark Tips, Evan Lipson/Bob Stagner, Kevin Brown and Sam Jacobs. This, along with my other passions in regenerative design, really helps to build community. Building community and culture is vital to me and I’m so proud to be a part of this series. We have a number of shows scheduled for presentation throughout the Autumn and Winter. Here’s a list of what’s coming up. Please come out to say hello and support these artists.

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 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.

New Project…The Peasant Revolt – Calling Out

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:09:36 +0000

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 my new record in the bag and set to be released this Autumn, I’ve been starting other projects with people and I thought now is as good a time as any to see if Caldwell wanted to ease back into doing some songs. Caldwell is recovering from surgery in Mississippi so we couldn’t really get together in my studio to record some new stuff, so what we did was started with an acoustic track that Caldwell had hastily recorded to get his idea down. He was having trouble writing a lyric and melody for the song…so I took a stab. In the end, I only ended up doing the vocal/lyric and adding a mellotron to the track that has a huge pre-delay reverb out to a delay. I cleaned up the track a little frequency-wise and here is what we have…our first attempt at collaboration. We plan on doing more of this and hopefully, once Caldwell has recovered, we’ll be able to write and record a whole noise-filled record together here in Nashville. For now, you’ll probably see tracks pop up here and there on this site.

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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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.

donation buttons…

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:17:57 +0000

i’ve actually taken the time to put a donation button scheme together. you can select your level of sponsorship by going here. once there you can choose one of 3 levels (amounts of money). the first is bill gates, second is steve jobs and the woz and the third is linus torvalds. you’ll then have a chance to enter a message and donate the amount selected. once you donate you will see your donation in the “donate” box on the sidebar over there ====»

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.

tateeskew.com in the works…

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 05:11:18 +0000

this will be the official page of tate eskew. this site will contain information regarding the music and projects that tate is involved with and it will also showcase the newly built zero art recording studio. there are a lot of things to complete on the site and it may be in flux as you browse around. there are things coming. you’ll see.