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just initiated a new bandcamp that i'll be feeding with older music i feel like making public. all in a fairly low key fashion, to clear out the closet for the new new next. it's still stuff i believe in and i feel is relevant to now (no "throw away" type thing).
started it off with a 13 song album of stuff i made mostly in the early 00's. have a looky listen here.
next up are some remixs i did for the band myths.
here's to 2016.
just a little something to give folks unfamiliar more of an idea of what i do live..
because i'm spending a lot of the time in the studio these days on the sunshine coast, focusing on releases and various other projects - i'm doing less shows in vancouver and abroad. this coming weekend i organized/accepted a string of three, so i can get a bunch done at once and then back to the bat cave...
first up, looking forward to big joy festival this weekend. i'll be doing a live souns performance on their thursday night. the fest runs from wednesday til saturday. if you're into intimate sit down ambient/experiemental/weird local live biz - this is your jam. i'm going to unearth my collection of small bells and other tiny sound objects (been years) and bring back some visuals i made a while back too (local natural world stuff).
the next night i'll be doing a dancefloor focused livePA thing at the red gate for inventor live. should be fun. the night is a variety show of sorts, a handful of vancouver livePA acts all working in their own distinct genres. everyone on the bill is great and look forward to jamming out with everyone.
aaaaand saturday night is a big one. cats only club at the rattle. kick off for the next low indigo release and a gathering of a bunch of amazing artists from different scenes all mixing and mingling and vibing out with each other. been looking forward to it for a while. follow the links. all the details are there.
out to VNM for their great ambient music festival this year nomadic streams. very well put together, well attended, well recieved, and such a fantastic collection of artists with a unique and special synergy. the title nomadic streams really clicked for me - every artist existing in their own very different and well-developed universes. the whole 3 days felt perfect, and it was a true honour to collaborate live with a cast of many people i've been long term fans of loscil, rafael anton irisarri, dj olive, crys cole, and people i'm newly fans of steve roden, marina rosenfeld, lawrence english.
thanks all. it was a pleasure.
a tad bit late on the announce (here on the site at least), yes, but this music isn't going anywhere.
proud to say there's a new souns full length out on the new deep sea mining syndicate label run by evangelos (typist, corinthian, 1/2 of sanctums) out of calgary. you can order the cassette or buy the digital at their bandcamp here.
this one is more actual songs, compared to the sound art / edited field recordings of coastal from a month or so back. very pleased with the mastering (alchemy) and cover art (original photo from moss harvest), and just stoked to be working with a guy like evangelos on something (check his latest here. some nice moody droney stuff).
eyes closed twice from the sunshine coast night
excited news that sigma flare 1 is finally out (vinyl + digital) on portland's debacle records.
a healthy amount of press and mentions rolling out so far:
resident advisor / tinymixtapes intro / tinymixtapes review / adhoc intro / adhoc interview / ransom note
full stream of the release here
..murmurs of european dates and other canadian dates are beginning. follow up sigma flare 2 is scheduled for feb 2016 too. stay tuned.
yooooo
still playing catch-up from the summer. aiming to always to put up all the important stuff up here. releases and big shows and projects and that.
two releases i haven't plugged that have happened since the site launch, from two camps that i consider family..
DIVERDOWN, a collab track between me and daega sound, for SUB DIV out of victoria.
and
FARUSHA LAKE for MODERN MATH's continuum's vol 1 comp
both are older tunes but still stand up i think, and i'm happy to have out there in an official capacity. big up all involved. love
new souns thing on panospria out this week. i wrote a bunch of words about it on the release page. those should do well to explain the thing.
might be better to DL it direct from archive.org cuz the panospria page might be a little messed up.
hope some folks dig it. was a crazy time for me. you know.. un-escapable unknown bass freq's all the time is an ideal setting to stay sane in.
small bit of support from unfamiliar (thanks, folks) and a touching message from a friend (feels good to be understood): "Listened to Coastal today with my partner. She said she felt "exposed" (in a good way) and like she'd had a brain massage. I felt like I'd been "re-landed" firmly on the west coast (in a good way). I also felt like I'd been cleaned out (in a good way)! Really great stuff."
gonna ease in and do just one drop for now, even though there's a tonne i could share (along with a few edits to the site too, ahem) ..soon. for now..
i have a tune 'moving' on there, along with pile of other local-made goodness.
exclaim and winnie plugged it a bit, but the underground reception is where the real buzz is at. it feels like a landmark for the vancouver underground somehow. there's an impressive amount of heat on there actually and it's 24 tunes strong.
out to all the chapel folks. thanks for having me on the comp. looking forward to the jam this saturday
welcome to the new site. thanks for stopping by. will be updating this space with news and such.. that's the aim at least. cheers to sergio levels for being a massive help with putting this sit together. chat soon hey. bleee
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