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Top 35 Albums of 2025

Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:26:15 +0000

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 and Kate Bush at their most exploratory, but scaled way down and turned inward. It’s quiet, patient music that opens up the longer you stay with it. Maybe my favorite album of the year.

Ron Heglin – Tom Djll – Duos for Voice and Runglers Listen/Purchase
A standout for me this year, Duos for Voice and Runglers feels like two signals meeting in fog, neither fully translating the other. Ron Heglin’s voice bends and mutates like a half-remembered language while Tom Djll’s runglers spark, stutter, and short-circuit around it. The result is a fragile truce between flesh and machine, hovering just long enough to leave a trace.

Friendship – Caveman Wakes Up Listen/Purchase
Caveman Wakes Up feels like sunlight hitting stone for the first time, followed by a sideways grin. Friendship writes songs that wander with intent, full of sharp observation, dry humor, and melodies that feel casually worn but carefully placed. It’s deeply smart music that pretends not to be, unfolding at its own unhurried pace.

Daniel Knox – Mercado 48 Listen/Purchase
Mercado 48 unfolds in hushed piano figures and a voice that sounds weary but steady. Daniel Knox writes with a rare clarity about isolation, doubt, and endurance, touching the human condition without grand statements or sentimentality. The restraint gives the songs their weight and staying power.

The Bats – Corner Coming Up Listen/Purchase
Corner Coming Up lands as another quiet affirmation from a band that has always trusted small gestures. The Bats sound completely at ease here, writing songs that feel modest on the surface but deeply assured underneath. For longtime listeners, it’s comforting without being nostalgic, proof that their instincts are still intact.

James McMurtry – The Black Dog and The Wandering Boy Listen/Purchase
The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy shows James McMurtry operating at full strength, sharp, unsentimental, and quietly funny in the way only truly smart writing can be. “Sons of the Second Sons” stands as one of the year’s best songs and one of the finest he has written, cutting deep while keeping its balance. The record carries that same mix of wit, moral clarity, and hard-earned perspective throughout.

Mike Majikowski – Invisible Listen/Purchase
Invisible centers on double bass, but it breathes and drifts like the best ambient music. Mike Majkowski lets tones emerge, recede, and blur at the edges, turning resonance and silence into equal partners. It’s deeply physical music that listens as much as it speaks, slow-moving and quietly absorbing.

Sean McCann – The Leopard Listen/Purchase
The Leopard is a meticulously constructed opera that dissolves narrative into sound, voice, and hallucinated detail. Sean McCann moves between radio play, ritual, and dream logic, letting scenes eat themselves and reform in slow, uncanny cycles. It’s immersive and disorienting work that rewards surrender more than interpretation.

Greet Death – Die In Love Listen/Purchase
Die In Love finds Greet Death settling into their weight, writing with more patience and intention than before. The songs feel sturdier and more self-aware, as if the band has learned how to stand inside the noise rather than push against it. Even so, the record suggests a horizon just beyond reach, making their growth feel both earned and unfinished.

Little Mazarn – Mustang Island Listen/Purchase
Mustang Island moves with a restless curiosity, its songs leaning into landscape and memory without ever settling into easy answers. Little Mazarn blends warm acoustic elements with unusual rhythmic and sonic shifts, creating music that feels lived-in and thoughtful. There’s a sense of wandering here, like watching light change over a place you think you know and realizing you only just arrived.

John Camp – Proceed Listen/Purchase
Proceed is precise and unpretentious, built from clean lines and patient movement. John Camp shapes sound with purpose, letting patterns emerge and shift without excess. His guitar playing is great as per usual and the result is music that feels both thoughtful and deliberate, rewarding close attention and lingering in the quiet between notes.

Aiko Takahashi – The Grass Harp Listen/Purchase
Small piano figures surface and disappear, never insisting on themselves. What Aiko Takahashi builds here is less about melody than attention, a slow tuning of the ear to touch, breath, and residue. The Grass Harp rewards patience by quietly changing how you listen, even after it ends.

Sally Anne Morgan – Second Circle The Horizon Listen/Purchase
Circling rather than advancing, the music moves like a body finding its own pace again. Sally Anne Morgan lets fiddle, banjo, and subtle textures trace slow arcs that feel shaped by weather, breath, and repetition. Second Circle The Horizon listens closely to cycles rather than moments, rewarding attention to how things return slightly changed.

Chrome Chasm – The Hermit Listen/Purchase
Long, patient passages stretch out and slowly shift, built from guitars, pedal steel, and soft brass that bleed into each other. Chrome Chasm favors atmosphere over momentum, letting pieces change almost imperceptibly. The Hermit works best when you stop looking for direction and let the sound settle in around you as if you were listening to the best of Philip Glass.

Mekons – Horror Listen/Purchase
Horror finds the long-running The Mekons doing what they’ve always done best: taking serious ideas and letting them breathe through rough-edged, restless music. Lyrics jump from historical reckoning to present-day malaise, and multiple voices shift the focus like a conversation that won’t settle for easy answers. The result is an album that’s both pointed and surprisingly warm, full of sharp critique and the band’s lived-in sense of collective strength, and it underlines why they’re still vital after all these decades.

Tropical Fuck Storm – Fairyland Codex Listen/Purchase
Fairyland Codex feels like a controlled delirium, raw edges and strange turns unfolding with brutal clarity. Tropical Fuck Storm blends noise, melody, satire, and bleak humor in ways that never feel accidental or sloppy. For a band that seems capable of anything, this record pushes their restless inventiveness into sharper focus without losing the off-kilter charm that makes them so amazing. They can do no wrong in my book.

Schatterau – Übers Jahr Listen/Purchase
Quiet, seasonal, and attentive, this record moves at a human pace. Schatterau works with field recordings, piano, and soft electronics in a way that feels observational rather than expressive, documenting time passing rather than dramatizing it. Übers Jahr rewards repeated listening, not through revelation, but through familiarity slowly deepening.

Pale Blue Eyes – New Place Listen/Purchase
Built with their own hands and clearly trusted, the songs settle in without strain. Pale Blue Eyes let guitars, synths, and steady rhythms lock together naturally, nothing overthought or undercut. New Place proves how rare it is to self-record and still sound this sure of yourself.

Chris Brokaw – Ghost Ship Listen/Purchase
Keeping up with my friend Chris Brokaw almost feels beside the point. He writes like someone taking notes while moving through the world, attentive and unsentimental. Ghost Ship drifts between memory and presence, songs arriving worn but intact, carrying the quiet authority of someone who has lived inside the questions long enough to stop explaining them.

Shiner – Believemeyou Listen/Purchase
The songs hit like well-placed turns in a familiar road, nothing wasted and nothing rushed. Shiner locks smart melodies into tightly wound structures, letting tension and release do the talking, just as they've done for decades now. Believeyoume sounds seasoned rather than softened, proof that precision and feeling do not cancel each other out.

Thor & Friends – Heathen Spirituals Listen/Purchase
Heathen Spirituals unfolds as three long instrumental movements that feel meditative yet charged, like ritual music pulled from a minimalist dream. The ensemble builds from simple marimba lines into layered sound worlds where cello drones, winds, and even a wordless choir give weight to every shift. Recorded live in an empty auditorium, the music moves slowly but insistently, a kind of spacious, hymn-like ambient work that suggests both quiet reflection and something approaching awe.

Lathe of Heaven – Aurora Listen/Purchase
This one hit me right away and stayed there because of the guitar lines and vocal melodies that many Flock of Seagulls fans will love. Lathe of Heaven has a real feel for mood and melody here, songs that glow and fray at the edges without losing their center. Aurora already feels strong and considered, and it also makes me excited to hear what happens when they tighten the screws just a bit more next time.

Ben McElroy – Elkwort Listen/Purchase
Elkwort feels less like a composed record and more like something overheard. Breath, bow scrape, and wheezing organ drift in and out, never settling long enough to become comfortable. There is a rural, almost medicinal quality to it, as if these sounds were gathered rather than written. It rewards patience, not with big moments, but with a sense of being quietly altered by the time it ends.

Eli Winter – A Trick Of The Light Listen/Purchase
This record is Eli Winter stepping fully into himself. The playing is open and generous, curious without showing off, and confident enough to let ideas breathe. It moves easily between folk, jazz, and abstraction, but always sounds grounded and human.

The Necks – Disquiet Listen/Purchase
Disquiet tests your patience and rewards it in equal measure. This is the record where The Necks unapologetically take up more than three hours of your life with slowly unfolding, improvisational terrain that feels alive and weathered at the same time. It’s hypnotic without being easy, mysterious without being opaque, and when it clicks it feels like you are breathing the same air as these three.

Jogging House – Kiosk Listen/Purchase
Kiosk is Jogging House in a slightly sunnier mood, where loopy tape fragments and hazy melodies feel personal and gentle rather than shadowy. The whole thing was built by chopping up tape loops and running them through a sampler and modular gear, then recording straight to tape in live takes, which gives it an unguarded, human energy.

The Ex – If Your Mirror Breaks Listen/Purchase
This one feels less like confrontation and more like communion. The Ex still clang and surge, but there’s a warmth under the abrasion, a sense of people listening hard to each other while the world rattles outside. The songs feel handmade and a little crooked, full of motion, humor, and unease. Strange music that somehow leaves you steadier than when you started.

Water Damage – Live At Le Guess Who? Listen/Purchase
This record is less like a performance and more like a condition you submit to. Water Damage lock into a single idea and refuse to blink, pushing repetition until it turns viscous and hallucinatory. Time stretches, details warp, and what starts as brute force slowly becomes meditative. Music as pressure system. Simple in the best way, smart in how long it holds.

Old Saw – The Wringing Cloth Listen/Purchase
The recording here from Old Saw feels quietly unsettled, like folk music remembering something it would rather not. Old Saw stretch familiar acoustic shapes until they thin out and blur, leaving space where certainty used to live. Nothing here rushes, nothing insists. It just hangs in the air, damp and unresolved, and somehow feels truer for it.

Michael Grigoni * Pan•American – New World, Lonely Ride Listen/Purchase
New World, Lonely Ride is a road trip at sunrise with no destination, just the hum of asphalt and the slow bloom of atmosphere around you. Michael Grigoni and Pan•American weave distant electronics, sparse guitar, and field recordings into something both expansive and intimate. It’s not beat-driven. It’s mood-driven, a study in space where silence counts as much as sound. A lonely ride that somehow feels like company when you need it.

Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution Listen/Purchase
Not a lot of metal on the list this year, but Ego Dissolution is a stand-out. The riffs and rhythms are steeped in tradition yet feel alive and unpredictable, like old school mechanics running through an cosmic filter. It's an album that sounds like it’s wrestling with its own shadow and winning.

Piers Faccini & Ballaké Sissoko – When The Word Was Song Listen/Purchase
This recording exemplifies music from before music was separated into styles. Voice, guitar, and kora move with an easy gravity, each note chosen, nothing wasted. It’s intimate without being fragile, ancient without feeling precious. Songs as shared memory, passed hand to hand, still warm when you receive them.

Cheer-Accident – Admission Listen/Purchase
Admission feels like a band that never lost the joy of surprise. Cheer-Accident twist and pivot with gleeful unpredictability, leaping from jagged art-rock hooks to jazz-tinged turns and oddball harmonies that land just when you think you know the road they’re on. It’s smart without being precious, strange without being alienating, and full of moments that make you both grin and scratch your head. An album that rewards curiosity and refuses to sit still. They've reached Thinking Plague status I think.

Seabuckthorn – A Path Within A Path Listen/Purchase
Do you want to listen for direction rather than following one? Put this in your headphones, then. Much like other Seabuckthorn records, the sounds arrive lightly, guitar, bowed strings, fragments of air and place, each leaving a trace before moving on. Nothing here insists on meaning, yet everything feels intentional. It’s music that trusts the listener to wander, to notice, and to find their own way through it.

tree // nature – Triple Heart Chamber and Dancing Mechanical Tree Listen/Purchase
Long drones stack, phase, and grind until repetition stops feeling passive and starts feeling structural, almost architectural. You can hear the mechanics working, oscillations nudging against each other, time stretching and folding in on itself. It’s visceral because of the volume and density, analytical because the process is always exposed. Music that doesn’t soothe so much as recalibrate your nervous system.

I'm Gettin' Too Old To Do That!

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Age Behind the Words

There is a moment, somewhere in the middle years, when you hear yourself say it.

I’m gettin’ too old to do that.

It comes out quiet, almost courteous, the way someone excuses themselves from a conversation they are still listening to. But tucked inside those words is a small surrender, the kind that happens before anyone else notices. A door that you close from the inside.

Top 35 Records of 2024

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:48:15 +0000

First Ten Standouts

Alan Licht – Havens listen/purchase
I’m not sure what else needs to be said about Alan and his guitar music. This new album explores repetition and subtle morphing pieces that will fill you with goodwill.
I4A – I4A 3 listen/purchase
I4A continues to fly under the radar making “dishwashing music” that shows an immense amount of maturity through smart composition and ideas that are modern sharp takes with Traffic and Kraut origins, but somehow wholly different.
Läuten der Seele – Die Reise zur Monsalwäsche listen/purchase
This is the final installment of Christian Schoppik’s “Water” trilogy. The first two showing up on this yearly list in the past as well. He makes beautiful collages that don’t get long in the tooth or introduce boredom.
Wussy – Cincinatti Ohio listen/purchase
As a fellow Midwesterner, this record is almost achingly too on the nose. Wussy continues to write music that immediately shows that they’ve listened deeply to thousands of records and they are able to relay their existence through your speakers.
Nala Sinephro – Endlessness listen/purchase
This is what happens when you have an ear for a journey and surround yourself with great musicians. If Broadcast wanted to make a record with mid-era Miles, you’d find something like this on the tape.
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet – The Way Out of Easy listen/purchase
An album that has an immediate impact on first listen and still gives upon repeated listening. Which is exactly what Jeff, Anna, Jay, and Josh are doing in the room together…listening.
METZ – Up On Gravity Hill listen/purchase
For me, this is METZ finally delivering the melody that I knew they were capable of, without losing the raw power that they somehow deliver in trio form. This will pummel you from start to finish…and you’ll immediately replay it in its entirety.
Mount Eerie – Night Palace listen/purchase
I think perhaps Phil has finally made an album that is the essence of what he truly is as an artist/human. It’s all here, everything he’s embodied over the last decades. Introspective, quaint, fuzzy, cloudy, and abrupt.
Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere listen/purchase
This is the best death metal band going and this is the best record they’ve made to date. Obviously they’ve been deep diving into the German ambient crates and it has imprinted itself into their approach. This is gigantic and sprawling. Take your time.
Merope – V?jula listen/purchase
This is a beautiful album of recordings rooted in Lithuanian folk music, but tied together through the ancient and modernity. It’s perfectly paced and the emotions communicated are easily received. As artists, we only hope we can fully realize our ideas like this.

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Top 35 Albums of 2023

Tue, 19 Dec 2023 04:56:57 +0000

First Ten Standouts

Pale Blue Eyes – This House listen/purchase
Layered melodic synth pop that recalls German motorik, Ulrich Schnauss production, and The Engineers – Always Returning era recordings
Scivic Rivers – S/T : listen/purchase
Kids don’t write albums like this. Mature finely crafted songs in the vein of Talk Talk’s later output and passing moments of Bob Welch Fleetwood Mac material
Jeannine Schulz – Pure : listen/purchase
Incredibly patient ambient micro-shifts of drift that feels completely organic
Lankum – False Lankum listen/purchase
Irish folk ensemble bringing drones and minimalism to out of this world melodies
Simon Joyner & The Echoes – One Carried A Lantern : listen/purchase
What else can be said about Simon? Inspired, practiced, and full of life lived songwriting
Blood Incantation – Luminescent Bridge : listen/purchase
Quite possibly the best death metal band going right now. Heavy, spacey, with ambient interludes
PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year Dying : listen/purchase
PJ and John Parish continue to do extraordinary things together. This album is maybe her darkest since Is This Desire?
Läuten der Seele – Ertrunken Im Seichtesten Gewässer : listen/purchase
If Christian releases an album every year…here it will be. Field recordings interspersed with very smart imaginative collage work
Ned Milligan – Considerable : listen/purchase
Quiet and delicate sounds that not only can get lost in the background of life, but overwhelm you with their intricacy when focused upon
Alberto Lizarralde – Haizetxe : listen/purchase
Collection of unreleased pieces from the maestro himself recorded in Basque on a 4 track reel to reel

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The Arts, Technology, and Sport

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 19:37:32 +0000

These are my year-end totals for running over this past year. A year in which I spent the first three weeks of January having numerous invasive health tests done, which limited my ability to get out on the trails to start the year. A year that had me fighting metatarsalgia in my left foot for over a month, which kept me at lower mileage as I nursed it back to strength. A year that had me fighting COVID for two weeks straight and stripped me of nearly three months of fitness in just those two weeks of downtime. See, sport…especially endurance sports…push you to your limits, reset your expectations, humble you, increase your empathy, inspire you, call you out when you think of phoning it in, and most importantly in my case…keep my mental health in check. I guess you could say those first six things are a recipe for the last.

Top 35 Albums of 2022

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 05:07:56 +0000

There were a lot of amazing albums released this year. As per usual, I’ve spent countless hours engulfed in new releases along with the albums of the past that I love. I couldn’t possibly list everything I listened to this year that I thought was worth sharing, but I’m going to list thirty-five albums here that really connected with me this year. I listened to all of these albums a lot this year and these were the ones that I was often returning to in times of not deep diving into back catalogs. These are in no particular order, but I will say that the first ten albums I have listed here are real standouts for me this year!

Top 25 Records of 2021

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 22:00:09 +0000

As I do every year, I wanted to share my favorite albums/recordings from this past year. There are 25 recordings here that I really connected with throughout the year. These are in no particular order and I’m putting a link to each one of these albums in case you want to have a listen or purchase these records directly from the artist or their label.

Orla Wren – The Blind Deaf Stone – listen/buy
Eleventh Dream Day – Since Grazed – listen/buy
Kryshe – Neuron – listen/buy
Sunburned Hand of the Man – Pick A Day To Die – listen/buy
Cucina Povera – Lumme – listen/buy
Low – HEY WHAT – listen/buy
Mega Bog – Life, and Another – listen/buy
marine eyes – idyll – listen/buy
Alastair Galbraith – loss – listen/buy
Steel Bearing Hand – Slay In Hell – listen/buy
Tomáš Knoflí?ek – Vaguely Delimited Targets – listen/buy
Tropical Fuck Storm – Deep States – listen/buy
Green-House – Music for Living Spaces – listen/buy
Clearing – Grow – listen/buy
Peter Broderick – The Wind That Shakes The Bramble – listen/buy
Hathor’s Rose Choir – Hathor’s Rose Choir – listen/buy
Knife Crime – Lovely Gary – listen/buy
Lucy Gooch – Rains Break EP – listen/buy
Andrew Tuttle & Padang Food Tigers – A Cassowary Apart – listen/buy
Black Swan – Repetition Hymns – listen/buy
Sarah Davachi – Antiphonals – listen/buy
Forest Robots – Horst & Graben – listen/buy
Jogging House – Flaws – listen/buy
Moral Collapse – Moral Collapse – listen/buy
Francis M. Gri – Stille – listen/buy

Ridiculed By Their Waves of Trauma

Tue, 10 Nov 2020 21:51:10 +0000

Over the last few months, I was given the okay to start running again. I had missed it terribly. Running long distances has always been something I’ve not only had a penchant for but has also been a meditation practice for me. People often ask me what I think about for hours at a time when I’m running these long distances. Honestly, I try not to think at all. I just try to breeze through trails as you see in the photos below.

Dutch NPR Interview

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:59:51 +0000

A couple of months ago I was interviewed by Simone Walraven for her Songlines program on Dutch NPR. We talk about a lot of different things: my music, agroforestry, ancestral trauma, nature connection, hope, and Skip James. There’s a podcast version now available of the interview that was aired on the radio station. Maybe a couple of you would like to listen, so I’m sharing.

https://radio2.nu/TateEskew

Direct Link to Listen on MixCloud: Listen to the interview here

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 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

Automating Dynamic DNS updating with AWS Instances and Route53

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:11:27 +0000

UPDATE: This information is long out of date. With the release of the awscli toolset in pypi years ago, things have changed a bit. Also, Amazon is forcing you to VPC on new accounts (years ago now). I will not be updating this post, but maybe you can find something useful here.

Recently I’ve been building the underlying system platform for the development of our distributed application on AWS. We do a lot of clustering using Storm and Hadoop, which means that we sometimes spin up hundreds of instances that may only live for a few hours during a run. Getting metrics, logs and all of those ‘must-haves’ centralized has been part of this build-out. When working with large amounts of machines in short-lived clusters, it becomes a real pain in the ass to use the built-in DNS/naming mechanism/scheme that AWS provides by default. Everything starts to look the same inside of your reporting/metrics/monitoring tools when working with the arbitrary names given to the instances. Hence, this article.

Permaculture, where do you start?

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 04:25:41 +0000

Just ask anyone that knows me and they will surely tell you that I am constantly spelling out the virtues of permaculture. After they hear my passionate ramblings, they are often as excited as I am about the possibilities it provides and they soon realize that it’s not a matter of ‘should they get involved’, but a matter of ‘how to get involved’. I’ve been getting this ‘how do I get started’ question a lot lately, so I thought it was time to put some things in a post here so that I could point people to a single spot to branch out from. This missive will not be an intro to permaculture itself, but rather a “getting started” post with resources to use to start educating yourself and taking action.

Open Source Ecology

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:39:42 +0000

I’ve written about Open Source Ecology a while back. I think it’s a super important project and I’m always keeping up with how things are progressing. They’ve recently created this video in hopes of landing a $100k prize from the Focus Forward competition. Enjoy the video and please vote if you enjoy what they are doing.

Homestead Land Searching

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:40:36 +0000

Last week we were out driving trying to find a possible site for our eco-village. A cold front was coming from the north and could be spotted through this hollow.

Permaculture – Revolution Disguised as Gardening

Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:34:14 +0000

Latest happenings…

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:32:52 +0000

It’s been quite some time since I have updated here. There’s been a lot going on and I’ve been trying to stay focused on the projects in the hopper.
Over the last 10 months or so, here are some things that have been going on.

I recorded a 10″ record with Nashville natives, Ttotals. It is called “Silver on Black” and you can take a listen and buy it here:

We also recorded two new songs for a 7″ series that will be put out by Sonic Cathedral. One of the songs will be selected by the label and then mastered by Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3 for release.

Interviewed by Maurice Barrett

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:43:40 +0000

Tate Eskew @ Dave’s Place from maurice barrett on Vimeo.

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.

Help Craig Schumacher of WaveLab Studios

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:50:24 +0000

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, DeVotchKa, Animal Collective, and Iron and Wine.

Earlier this year Craig was diagnosed with head and neck cancer. His doctors believe that with the proper treatments (which have already begun), he stands a good chance of beating this. The bad news is that the treatments are painful and costly. The out-of-pocket expenses will be enormous, not to mention the fact that there will be periods in which Craig will not be able to work.

Patrick Krief – Zero Art Session – Recorded Live to 2-track on May 3rd, 2007

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:30:36 +0000

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 we were able to get some time before the show to knock these recordings out. We recorded live to 2-track using a single microphone and ate some brownies after the session. Patrick is a passionate musician and I think it really comes through in these performances.

Brian Dettmer – Featured Artist

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:23:26 +0000

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Brian Dettmer – Integrated-Electronics

I’m always on the lookout for art and artists that inspire me to create my own works. Luckily, once in a while I run across someone’s work that I’m just in awe of and it inspires me to get on with my own creative endeavors. Brian Dettmer is one of those people.

From Wikipedia: Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting mediaâ€”such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapesâ€”to create new, transformed works of visual fine art.

Philip Glass – Train/Spaceship Parts 1 & 2 from Einstein on the Beach

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:31:03 +0000

There aren’t too many times in my life where I’ve felt completely overwhelmed and engulfed by a live music environment. When those times hit and the goosebumps don’t go away, I remember why I started playing music in the first place. A couple of years ago my wife, Amy, got us tickets to see Philip Glass: A Retrospective to celebrate his 70th birthday at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center here in Nashville. We were very excited to see a group of musicians play some Philip Glass music. When we arrived at the symphony hall, we had no idea what was in store for us. It turns out that it wasn’t just a “group of musicians” that were to play, but Philip himself and his original ensemble. I can’t explain the feelings that coursed through me that night as I swam inside of every detail. I felt nervous, full of anxiety, incredibly happy, and incredibly sad as I was lulled in and out of twisting arpeggios. You don’t so much listen to Philip and his ensemble as you perhaps live inside of their cacophony of life. It was one of my favorite experiences that I’ve encountered in my life. Period.

Zero Art Studio final floor plan

Mon, 29 Nov 2010 02:44:02 +0000

Well, I think this is the final floor plan that will be built starting around the first of the year. I’m still waiting on a few quotes for different parts of the construction, but I have a decent idea of what it will all cost. As you can see, I’ve changed the layout of the staircase and substituted a spiral staircase for the wide staircase at the rear of the control room. This provides 4 extra feet of space directly behind the console. You can see the previous design here.

thankful…

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:00:58 +0000

my wife, my son, my daughter, my entire family
passionate friends — past, present and future
health
ability to reason
science
music
ability to use all of my senses
human compassion
human and natural works of art
progressive ideas

Open source ecology…

Sun, 14 Nov 2010 00:03:28 +0000

Every once in awhile I will come across a project that I absolutely love and get excited about. This is one of those times. Take a look at the video below and then go to Openfarmtech.org and read about what these guys/gals are doing. Super amazing stuff.

They say this about themselves:

Open Source Ecology is a movement dedicated to the collaborative development of tools for replicable, open source, modern off-grid “resilient communities.” By using permaculture and digital fabrication together to provide for basic needs and open source methodology to allow low cost replication of the entire operation, we hope to empower anyone who desires to move beyond the struggle for survival and “evolve to freedom.”

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.

Zero Art Studio – new design

Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:00:16 +0000

I believe Amy and I are really close to being able to start working on the new studio. I’ve gone through tons of iterations of the studio design and I’m ready to add another. this one has a loft space that would contain the control room, which would look out over the live room. a lounge/apartment would be downstairs below the control room/loft. What do you think?

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Proposed Zero Art Studio Design Layout

Sun Boxes by Craig Colorusso…

Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:22:11 +0000

I must say that I absolutely love this concept and delivery. I’ve designed similar boxes as prototypes, but here Craig delivers them into a wonderfully immersive experience. Bravo!

What a year!

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 05:52:17 +0000

Well, nothing like not posting for a year and coming out swinging. By the subject of my last post, I’m sure all of you know what I have been up to over the past 10 months. That’s right, baby wrangling. What can I say, it has been an amazing experience and Ruby is absolutely wonderful. Hence, the reason there are no posts here for nearly a year. Although, I have indeed come back to internet life and redesigned the website. I have been meaning to do it for quite some time, but I always mean to do things with free time and consistently fail at finishing said things, but not this time!

Ruby Arrives

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:17:12 +0000

Well, we did it (Actually, Amy did it). We had our beautiful baby girl. As you can see by the lack of posts here, we’ve been just a tad busy with everything. Mostly we’ve been staring at Ruby Jessica, but we’ve also been enjoying family and friends, baking bread, planning gardens, losing our baby weight, reading, etc.

Two things that are of the music-related sort that I should probably mention. My incredible friend Chad Blinman started teaching at Berklee College of Music this semester and I’m very happy for him. He’s a great engineer and an even better human being. Good luck Chad and Nicole!
Also, my friends Nate Dort and Josh are going to be doing the RPM challenge this year and I wish them luck. I may stop by for a guitar track here and there, but I won’t be involved in the capacity that these two will be. Enjoy the process, guys.

Whoa, see ya summer…

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:48:39 +0000

I’ve been crazy busy, what with the baby coming, taking care of this 5 acres of land, staying in San Francisco for a week, and on and on. Watch out summer, you’ll be gone soon and everyone’s favorite season will be upon us. So, some bullet points:

Planting grapes, fruit trees, and nut trees on the property
Fixing up the nursery
Not recording music
Sucking up information at an alarming rate

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…

Zero Art Radio podcasts…ALIVE…

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:15:44 +0000

I started Zero Art Radio 12 years ago this October.Â We went through a lot of crazy times and fights with large labels and in the end it was just costing too much money to keep up the labor of love in the format that we tried to keep it in.Â It was always a labor of love and all I and everyone involved ever wanted to do was expose great artists to lots of people.Â We did accomplish that over the years and for that we were very happy.

New year, new ideas, and work

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:02:02 +0000

Well, that first month didn’t take long to pass, did it? I kept busy over the last month by starting a pretty nice exercise regime, building a whole new infrastructure for work, and getting the bicycle ready for spring riding and commuting (if I can talk my wife into letting me ride 15 miles one way to work. she thinks I’ll be killed.)

I’m back to running anywhere from 5-10 miles every morning and enjoying it. I’m seriously thinking about running a 25k in June.

Bandcamp and quality

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:21:00 +0000

You know, we engineers spend ridiculous amounts of money on preamps, compressors, eq, etc., yet when all is said and done, the end result is compressed into some horrible sounding mp3 file and listened to on a pair of crappy earbuds. My friend Chad and I have discussed this ad nauseam. We even started Functional Equivalent Recordings so that we would have a place to not only release our music in the form we want it to be heard in, but also to express that we want higher fidelity in the recordings released by all artists, which we don’t find to be particularly ground-breaking and wonder why this isn’t the norm already.

Bands In Town

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:21:51 +0000

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 even let you take a listen to the band via a streaming player.

last.fm users can log in using their username/pass and it will filter to bands that it thinks you’ll like. You can also filter based on location and distance from that location.

There actually may be a hell

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:30:13 +0000

…or maybe there is a hell in the making and it’s practicing the heating technique here in Middle Tennessee in early June. Anyway, it’s damn hot and if you plan on doing anything outside, say like mowing 5 acres, moving rock, trying to clear a space for your child’s cabin/playset, running long distances, picking strawberries, playing washers, or drinking beer then you better be out there before 10 am.

There is a possibility that the build-out of the new studio may resume here shortly. we will see how things pan out, but I’m pretty damn excited that it may continue within the next couple of months.

Settling in the new house

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:15:05 +0000

Well, it’s been a few weeks. We are getting settled in the new house and I think I’m going to set up to record some stuff while we plan the studio design for the build out on the back acreage. I think I’m really close to the overall design/layout of the new studio. I’ll post a drawing of it soon to see what everyone thinks. you can then offer your suggestions and i will dismiss them immediately since it’s not your studio! cool, eh?!

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.

Multi-touch interaction screen…

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:42:44 +0000

I was recently looking into the lemur as something to use to control live performances via a touch screen and got really into some of the technology used. So, I started digging deeper to see what else was out there. I had seen Microsoft’s multi-touch coffee table some time ago, but as with most things Microsoft, who knows when it will be out and how buggy it will be. Then I stumbled upon this multi-touch device. Watch the video on the right side of the page. I’ve always hated interfacing with a computer, even though that’s what I do to earn a living, and this is getting closer to how I would like to interact. I think voice commanding and this multi-touch approach are great ways to interact with computing platforms, especially when it involves creating music or other types of art.

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.

guitar rising…

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:18:13 +0000

well, it seems that someone has finally figured out a way to use a real guitar plugged into your pc soundcard to control a “guitar hero-like” game called guitar rising. (sorry for the shitty photo to the left)

i think i like this idea much better than the idea of guitar hero. this actually has some real world usefulness to it. i think this could be a great learning tool for people that want to learn how to play and it would probably help timing issues for people that already do play the instrument. the game isn’t out yet, but the makers state that their company is “…an independent video game development studio dedicated to bringing unique games and genres to market. GameTank was founded to develop games that enable players to acquire real-world skills while being thoroughly entertained.”

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.

Metasonix G-1000 amplifier

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:57:04 +0000

I’ve always loved whatever Eric Barbour over at Metasonix was up to, but this is something that I can really get behind. I’ve wondered in the past why someone with incredible vacuum tube skills had never made an amp that was completely hybrid and looked as grotesque as this does.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Metasonix G-1000 Guitar Amplifier. I can only imagine how cool this sounds.

If you have never checked out Metasonix, head over there, and indulge. Also, if you know of any other cool makers of crazy stuff like this, send them to me!

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.

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.

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.

Music and the brain…

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 02:48:32 +0000

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 read one other sacks book, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, which was really great. sacks is an amazing writer and quite a scientist (he’s a neurologist). I think about how the brain reacts to music almost daily. I’ve also often wondered why humans seem to have some primal instinct that draws them towards music/rhythms and the reason why some people have a greater ability to “just get it” and a “brain” for it. Oliver Sacks covers this in an amazing fashion. if you love both science and music, this thing is a must-read. it’s quite inspiring.

david byrne – other peoples problems

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:00:12 +0000

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 albums. he’s always been an incredibly insightful person with regards to the music industry and this article is no different. i have to say that his outlook on this whole craptastic music industry is quite inspiring and i hope he’s right. this is the stuff i am most interested in with regards to what “models” work in this day and age.

armadillo run

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:38:32 +0000

okay, tad turned me onto this and now i have to send someone over to snuff him out. it’s goddamn addictive. this is a warning to you all. absolutely do not download this.

actually,go ahead…download it and ruin your life. thinking about going to the museum this weekend? how about meeting up with friends for a drink? perhaps you want to go check out that band you’ve been reluctant to go see because you’ve heard they have a drummer who thinks he’s in some mid-70’s prog band. well, forget about all of that shit. the physics of the armadillo run have got you by the privates, my friends.

summer coming to an end…

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:42:54 +0000

well, a whole summer has passed since my last post. we’ve been incredibly busy building a new house on 5 acres east of Nashville. we are really excited and can’t wait to get our things moved in. it looks like we will be able to move in the second week of november. i will also be starting on the new studio as soon as we get moved in. the slab floor is poured, the exterior walls are studded, the plumbing for the kitchen and bathroom are already roughed in and i should be ordering the trusses by the end of november. the studio build-out will be a drawn out effort as it will be built with quality and when money is available to put forth. in the meantime i will setup the console/gear in the new 2 car garage and finish my record starting in december.

Moving and life…

Mon, 07 May 2007 18:50:42 +0000

Well, we close on a new house later this month so everything regarding the studio and album is kind of on hold until everything can be settled. the new place will be on 5 acres east of Nashville. The new studio will be a 1200 square foot facility that will have it’s own kitchen/bathroom. I’m extremely excited and can’t wait to get started. there is a lot of construction to finish up, but it will be completely worth it in the end. I will definitely document the process as I did with the last build-out.

Records and studio update

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:48:45 +0000

It’s a good time of the year. Things are incredibly busy here as of late. I just finished tracking basics for the new Sequoia album here at Zero Art Studio and spirits are high there. I’ve also found a little bit of time to work on Semiotics, which is taking much longer to do because I keep adding more and more projects to the plate.

Mock Orange was recently here at Zero Art Studio mixing their upcoming album, which is still untitled at this point I believe. It sounds good, trust me.

Looking for trumpet and cello…

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:33:31 +0000

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m looking for a trumpet and/or cello player to play on the record. Progress is being made on the album and I would like to add a few more players to the project. If you know of anyone, or you yourself play, contact me with the contact form on this site.

Please go see TJO while she’s out on tour.

rough carpentry…

Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:15:42 +0000

this past weekend i managed to build an old style slat bed/couch for the studio, using chisels and all. the utilitarian lounging device, as i like to call it, will also act as a nice bass trap for the back of the studio directly behind the listening position of the console. it’s also big enough for someone to sleep on in case they stay over while recording. i’ll have pictures up at some point, but i still have to get cushions made for the backrest. amy is going to make them instead of me buying some half-assed cushion that i won’t like anyway. so yeah, a couch/bed.

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.