January 2012
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quick addendum
All that skepticism and dismissiveness that I was talking about with outsiders in rap and East Asian music, I def do the same thing with exp music, I think largely because there are so many folks that wanna step in and make stuff that is like Halloween SFX records or whatever? And that is so not what it’s about. So, I understand being guarded about one’s music.
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Lana Del Rey and convincingness
I kind of missed the boat on this Lana Del Rey drama, I’ve mostly been catching people writing about trying to untangle the drama itself, and not so much the music or the persona in a vacuum. So I kind of don’t really understand what this is all about, except that it’s hit a nerve with some people, which is usually something that’s fun and interesting for me to check out.
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Like, you want to be in a scene so you can feel at...
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My Tumblr Dashboard this evening had a post about that weird Benny Lava youtube video, which reminded me of this totally weird moment I had late night at a hostel in Osaka. I was one of 3 white people in the room, plus maybe 5 or 6 nihonjin? I was making a joke involving a couple different voices, and afterwards someone asked me to do a black accent, which is weird because maybe with enough...
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melody as a tool for sustaining and modulating a...
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WatchHere’s Penumbra too! This one has made its way around the internets once or twice, but I’m stoked to finally be committing it to tape!
While World of Prophecy was recorded and pieced together over a few weeks this Autumn in California, Penumbra took us maybe close to a year from start to finish. These recordings are much less sure of themselves, more fragile maybe. We recorded a few...
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WatchHere’s a new 90 minute Esther Chlorine tape, titled World of Prophecy - Satanism, Ritual Sacrifices of the NWO, out on Donkey Disk in February! (To be followed closely by a 35 minute tape, Penumbra, out on Of Plants!) Yay!
For those of you just tuning in, Esther Chlorine is a junk punk late night noise collage project I’ve been working on with San Francisco based tape player Greg...
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“Because of my work concerned with the Sarajevo crisis long ago, people have...”
– Lebbeus Woods, WAR AND ARCHITECTURE: Three Principles
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sincerelyyours.se is an instant swedish pop rabbit...
Pitchfork: What’s up with the lip-syncing at your live shows?
The Tough Alliance: A thousand things. The singing sounds much better pre-recorded plus we can concentrate on more important things like dancing and communicating with the audience. We want our performances to be a situation including the crowd rather than a concert with audience and we want to have the freedom to not sing and...
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i once put on an album of gregorian chant,...
which is kinda cynical for me, but still, that stuck with me. music is a complicated thing.
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“Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds....”
– Babe Ruth, Yankee Stadium, ceremony for Babe Ruth Day, 4/27/47
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WatchFrom the Miniatures series at MIIT House (pronounced “meat house”) in Osaka last month.
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too thousand twelf
January 2nd I woke up at 4am I’m checking out Kool A.D.s new “highly “anticipated”” mixtape The Palm Wine Drinkard 2012 let’s do this.
i’m readjusting to new york a little faster than I’d prefer
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Raub / Horaflora @ Club BART in SF
Esther Chlorine same deal
i visited Ram he’s got a cat now he’s hella into it ...
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i'm back in bushwick for new year's
ok then
December 2011
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shanghai what's CRACKIN
my hotel room is bigger than any room I’ve been in for the past month
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i think i'm making guitar face in some of these
thx Yumiko for the photos!
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xmas in jpn
I’m pretty slagged! I’m surprised at how much last night’s show in Kokubunji took out of me. 3:30pm feels more like 11am to me. I’ve been a late riser the past couple years, but never quite this bad, ha!
Christmas is not such a big deal in Japan, which is nice, as my family is all on the other side of the ocean. I’m seeing a show later tonight with some friends,...
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Some Xmas tunes that I sang on tonight in...
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potential album art
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waiting on an email: worse than waiting on a phone...
i dunno i forgot what using a telephone is like
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Bonus Japan stuff
Saw this on the way back from potato guy:
Other stuff from this weekend:
Best pastry I’ve ever had maybe:
On my way back:
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Seriously
Took another trip out of the city this weekend to visit and record with my friend Julien, who lives in the town of Chino, Nagano. It’s a mountainous area of Japan, and despite looking pretty large from a distance, it has a real small-town, countryside vibe to it.
We did get a few good takes during recording, and afterwards, we decided to step out and get hot soup across town. (Another...
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WON JIKSOO: GREATEST LIVING MUSICIAN
This dude has not really been documented. I don’t have time to type up my Won Jiksoo story, and frankly it’s best told over a beer, but seriously everybody go study with this motherfucker and loan him money and shit right the fuck now.
I recorded the storytelling set that he did at this party I was at in Osaka, but he also plays clarinet. I dunno what this other guy is doing or who...
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no internet for miles part 3 - barhopping in...
Last night I went bar hopping with some friends in Shinjuku. The bars we went to were these little tiny affairs:
Seems like they’re all about the conversational aspect of bar hopping, not so much the loud, hard partying thing like in New York. Quiet rock or pop music, one bartender, and we’d file out when another group came in.
Afterwards we ended up hanging out at a venue that...
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no internet for miles part 2 - RETURN TO TOKYO
Been in Japan two or three weeks and this was the first traditional style Japanese toilet I’ve encountered:
Baby Copperhead + AEN @ Superdeluxe:
Caught this duet u+uco at Bonobo, a small venue in Harajuku:
I talked to them before their set, they told me they basically cover themselves in barcodes and use barcode scanners to trigger musical events via a bit of...