Trey is a longtime collaborator and friend. His tastes run so diagonal to mine, it’s frequently difficult coming up with parts when he asks me to. But that challenge is also a lot of fun, But Trey’s a fine bassist with a unique feel and doesn’t need any bass from me. I tend to get … Continue reading New Release: Trey Lane’s The Black Scrolls of Golden Age Ufology
At The Drunken Odyssey, I review Gwenifer Raymond’s Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain. Continue reading New Review: Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #20
Kelly is my guitar and bass teacher. I started taking lessons in March as a way to get through lockdown. I had always wanted to take lessons, but either always said I didn’t have the money or didn’t deserve them. Getting back into playing music has helped get me through this year. I’m studying walking … Continue reading New Video: Kelly Coyle’s “Traveling, Sitting Quite Still”
This continues a collaboration with improviser/guitarist Scott Bazar. There’s a playlist on SoundCloud of what we’ve done so far. He’s a continual inspiration. I never know what he’s used to make his tracks and it’s like a surprise I get at the end of the process when he sends me notes. I put those in … Continue reading New Music: Zazel dans le Nitro
Check out some J9 videos if you enjoy your humor somewhere between quotidian observation and dada. One of my favorite images from the series is of a miniature motivational hippo exhorting from beneath a car in a grocery store parking lot. That may give you some idea of what to expect from them. I look … Continue reading Just What I Needed
You can read this at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Lost Chords and Serenades Divine #13: Palm’s Rock Island
Here’s the second in a series of collaborations with Florida-based composer/improviser Scott Bazar. I can’t recommend his audio/visual work enough. Here’s my post on our earlier collaboration. More on the way…(I have to finish a couple of videos first.) Continue reading Sounds in the Mockingbird Mound with Scott Bazar
Lots of guitar and art rock below, though lots of good uses of electronics, too. Lots of comfort music (in these times). And RIP Art Neville. The Meters are one of THE bands for me. The Muppet Movie Soundtrack, the first record I remember turns 40. Still love it. Black Sabbath (1970)Paranoid (1970)Master of Reality … Continue reading There’s gotta be more to life than myself: Recent Listening
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