2.1
This is snow and it’s still snowing or maybe it’s the breeze now.. The light strums of the guitar are echoing throughout the lodge care of Jess. I’ve been thinking of the cover that was done before the holidays, something from the Jefferson Airplane. A story of a man in love with younger things. I hate the lyrics.
Finished sequencing a few live tracks from Betrayal last week and have been making my shopping lists for the future. It’s so hard to plan a decent live show when you aren’t playing live shows. I bumped into a man from my past this week who might just give up music for film. I feel it, music can be a misty mistress if you’re not careful. An egoistic rabbit hole. What do you do in the last year of our lives, as I stumble and spill my tonic? Finish your PHD, listen to RA or just go to India? Let’s hope they make the right choice, then maybe, just maybe, there may be a chance for us after all.
Sequencing today, all under the watchful eyes of the monarchy.
year two
I’m standing in front of a large flat screen makeshift compu monitor typing about the now, half blind, on holiday in the wilderness of Wisconsin. If you haven’t heard by now Jessica is 5 months pregnant and anyone who is in tune with the nature of things in this world feels the lifting of a veil. Our times are moving faster ——> towards something that is not seen but may only be assumed. I don’t like to assume much these days. I’ve been that lovely guy from the SHINING for the past year. I was in the hospital getting my body fixed and that changed things, I’m going to be a father and that changed things, I have madness and demons and that changed things, I put my songs into the world and that scared me to death. I spend hours sitting at windows trying to lose my fears, my hates. Me, I’ve been introducing and mingling together the bits of a new collection of songs. The last collection was a cobbled patchwork that shared commons with the ground, my frustrations, my past lives, my ill purged desires. This new thing is of the sky and letting go of the ideas of self imposed structures. We all get trapped in that trip of expecting things too much, wanting things too much, loving things too much and planning our happiness around things only in the end, feeding a bottomless aspirational economy. Keep listening it’s all fleeting.
Jessica, Sawyer and David @ 2010 Midpoint Music Festival, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
oh.. oh.. Betrayal of Hearts
The new album is at the press and it has been officially confirmed by our publicist that Betrayal of Hearts will be pushed into the world on Tuesday April 5, 2011. There will be a spring tour of weekends following the release. Dates will be announced in the coming months. There may or may not be a release show – they can sometimes be a bit overdone. You know, emailing a bunch of bands you don’t like because they draw people and dealing with all the blah, blah, blah that goes into that. We don’t have a whole bunch of friends pushing buttons for us, we won’t lie to you. This is an indie (in the truest sense of the word) operation. If we do do <—- (see that) something it will be small and classy with some exceptional bands we like.
In other news David James needs a haircut badly and in further news the band is about to start rehearsing again in Columbus, something that hasn’t happened since the Winter of 09. This is part of David’s resolution of making up with his evil mistress of a city.
An outtake from last fall’s photo shoot in and around the compound.
Photo by Courtney Galyk
Jessica tracking for Betrayal of Hearts, December 2009. There are two interesting things in this photo. On the floor is the Fisher Price cash register used for the opening bell in Girl on Tricycle and the oddly placed Ally Mcbeal box set on the Arp String Ensemble.
Winter of 2009 rehearsals at la chambre sur la colline.
a beginning
It has to have been some time my friends since a word has been uttered outside the noise of show announcements and album completions. There are some very exciting things happening around the group at the moment, many of which I can’t go into just yet but..
In about four months we officially release our album, BETRAYAL OF HEARTS to the world. We have spent a year and a half writing and recording this album and it’s very special to us. Today on we will be chronicaling the days and weeks leading up to the release with video, news, words and photos. There will be video of the making of the record as well as photos from the studio sessions and some random things that may have happened along the way. We’ll be posting a few things every week so check back often.
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