tascam 234 4-track
Now that my final 4-track effort statik 3 has been uploaded I want to pay homage to the cassette 4-track recorder that liberated the…
MUSINGS
Stone’s Throw: Bromances vs. Blood Brothers
Before there were light-hearted Hollywood ‘bromances’ there was the much more serious bond of ‘blood brothers.’ A blood brother…
40 Days: Songs and Suicide
Maybe the new year isn’t the best time to breach the topic of suicide. Then again if Robin Williams’s tragic death taught us something it’s…
valentine: there’s no escape from the beat…
I could barely stand it. It was the summertime in the early ’90s and there was only one beat on the airwaves. Even…
half asleep
Certain rooms, whether they be childhood bedrooms or sunlit kitchens, attach themselves so strongly to events in the…
promiscuous sax
The soprano sax made me promiscuous. No, not in that sense, What I mean is musically free. After abandoning…
16:16 an imaginary intersection
Some of these songs go too deep into ’90’s New Wave territory, but like a rescued cat, I love them anyway…
the art of ambience: volume not decibels
I learned the basics of sonic-psychology: That ‘volume’ and actual decibels can be separate aspects of sound…
the art of portability
I used to think travelling light, whether in a musical or any other sense, was about shrinking to fit…
new wave and reverb: forever together
I’ve gone on about giving up reverb. But like other mind altering substances it’s hard to shake. Even when…
Fretting Less
The fretless electric bass is a transcendently expressive instrument all to itself. It’s also a bastard instrument…
being judged
Ever been stuck in a relationship where judgment hangs over every move? The beauty of ’90s New Wave is…
#ThrowbackThursday: New Waves
Whether you’re 15 or 55, New Wave is always about adolescence. Adolescence in its most raw, awkward…
Seoul Report: Musicians as Global Curators
couple late nights were spent at the iconic Banjul Schale in Jong-ro. Gaining notoriety in the 60’s for…
tired of strawberry leaves
as Wept fell apart as all bands do, this song became a metaphor for distance – for that mad and meditative…
going dry
Many failed attempts at writing a ‘dry’ song on guitar and voice revealed my bad technique. So I…
the blind piano tuner
jack sprinkle was a talented, blind piano technician that for years would tune our family’s small upright and make it sound like…
Backwards and Forwards
The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see, it presciently read…
shadow men
a lost recording from 1986 emerges… ‘shadow men’ was recorded live with myra pearson who…
Infrastructure to Nowhere
I’m hoping that all of this is like an empty auditorium before the show…