Hello everyone. This issue has some special rare recordings at the bottom below the paywall for paid subscribers. I left the other update stuff above the pay line just for the heck of it.
Thanks for reading. I hope you’re all doing well.
upcoming thing
Just to remind you, this Saturday, Dec. 10th, 2022 I’ll be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle for a book launch of the big Geneviève Castrée monograph, showing artwork and sculptures, selling books, playing songs from the tribute compilation. More details at this post here. See you there I hope.
regular normal life news
My friends Ragana are recording with Nich Wilbur at the Unknown in Anacortes. The other day they asked to borrow my gong. I said “yes of course, but it’s with me a few islands away”. No problem, Nich has a boat. So I met them at the beach in the morning for a quick gong hand-off at the waterline, then they zipped away to go record like one gong hit for their next album. Can’t wait.
The other day, in the middle of the day during 2nd coffee I cleaned and black polished my boots and watched Eraserhead at the same time. The 2 activities were aesthetically very similar.
In the last couple hours of school day empty home freedom I got out the electric guitar and recorded some jangling for a song that I hope will turn out good enough to send to a compilation in Japan. After a long time without playing much guitar it hurts my tender fingers. Maybe it’s nerve damage? Worth it though.
live recordings
I’m kind of always managing the archives over here. Lately, in between other recording tasks I’ve been transferring old CDRs onto the computer of live recordings from Mount Eerie shows over the past many years, but mostly older. CDR culture has mostly died out as far as I know and maybe bootleg taper culture too?
Mostly these live recordings are bone-chillingly mortifying to me, but occasionally I’ll find something interesting and forgotten and “good”. I plan to release these things gradually here for paid subscribers, and maybe someday as an actual thing more widely (but probably not).
Here are some nice recordings from a show in Copenhagen, March 6th, 2005 at Huset. I was traveling with Geneviève (Ô Paon), who played the show too. I played the whole album of No Flashlight, just solo, and then I sang these extremely short songs which have never been recorded or released.
Short Songs Live, Copenhagen, March 6th, 2005
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