New Infinite Plastic Internal music up at Bandcamp!

 

https://infiniteplasticinternal.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-plastic-internal-with-mika-pontecorvo-painted-desert-points

One of the coolest things about my new abode in Tucson, AZ is that I have a piano. The piano makes it so easy to just go and do some music, without the hassle of schlepping here or there, dealing with schedules, etc. It's just really convenient. 

For these tracks, I recorded myself, and then sent a clip to Mika Pontecorvo. Mika used his considerable skills with electronics processing to chop, slice, dice, and enhance the clip. He actually produced three tracks from my one clip. We're stoked to be able to have found a way to keep working together, and will likely continue to do so, using this method. 

Somehow, the pursuit of music continues, even under strange societal circumstances. 

Many thanks to Mika. I love you, dude.

New track up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/scorpios-re-mix

This track is a re-mix of a song on George Earth's great Candymachine CD, from 2004.  When I first heard the track Scorpios on this CD, I really wanted to add some more percussion and other sounds to it. George was kind enough to assent to my desire to do so, and at some point I convinced guitarist/engineer John Axtell to let me take over his studio for a day towards that purpose. It was quite fun to layer different percussion elements to the song; for the life of me, I can't recall what I used to get the weird electronic swooping sound that occurs in the mid-section. 

This track was posted at Soundcloud many years ago, now it can live hassle free at Archive.org I guess.

Sheila Bosco/Mark Pino Duo recording up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/sheila-mark-practice-mix

Here is a recording of Sheila Bosco and I, in rehearsal for a live soundtrack that we did for a film by Jerry Smith. This occurred at Berkeley Arts Festival Building, hence the photo of Bonnie Hughes, its patron. As usual, I listened to it and liked it enough to archive. 

Shards cover of California Dreamin' up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/05-california-dreamin

George Earth and I recorded this track in a bitchin' Malibu house, owned by Steve Wilmans, in Summer of 2003. Some years back I posted it at Soundcloud, but their copyright bots flagged it and took it down. Like I was making any money off of that! Anyway, here it is again, this time at the less Corporate/Fascistic site that is Archive.org. Donate a few bucks to 'em. I have.

Birdsaw has a new website!

 

https://birdsaw.wpengine.com/

Produced by Dan Laks and Andrea Goddard. Andrea was a great friend to me and everyone else in Birdsaw. Dan put a lot of work into Birdsaw, that's for sure. 

The page looks good, with videos, photos, graphics, and sounds. Nice to see a cool looking archive for Birdsaw!

Carlos Jennings/Mark Pino Duo recordings up at Archive.org!

 

https://archive.org/details/relentless-hop

Carlos Jennings and I played Noise music together in Ear Spray from 2013 until 2018 or so. One afternoon during the latter year, we got together to make some slightly more conventional sounds together, at my house in Richmond, CA. Recently I listened to them, and I found them to be cool. Emails with Carlos ensued, and he was enthusiastic about them as well. Carlos graciously took some time to do some editing/sound processing on the five tracks at the Archive.org link above. Good times, fun sounds. We found a sense of adventure within the limitations of a duo, in large part due to Carlos's cool loops and synth washes. Too bad we couldn't have done more!