Two fresh Infinite Plastic Internal tracks, cooked up using tabla drums that were struck with rubber tipped mallets. The first one is the initial recording. On the second, Mika Pontecorvo used his electronic Slice and Dice method to process that recording.
Many thanks to Mika for further collaboration, gratitude to the ancient musical tradition of India, and apologies to Saraswati for the irreverent art work.
Photo by Melissa Crockett.
Another long track of jamming goo from Barney Cauldron, right before it ended. To me, this is the sound of people having fun while jamming. So, up on the Archive it goes!
Lenny Gonzalez added something really special to Cartoon Justice, if just for a couple of shows! Ah, the Luggage Store, how I loved it!
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.
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.
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.
