First of all, I would like to announce that we have officially started on our 5 song EP-Signature.
We have already recorded 2 songs, Coffee Shop Queen (an original) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 1 Cover (the original song is by the Flaming Lips).
The record label Ghostly International is giving me good feelings about the world of music right now, it's exactly what a label should be: small, well cared for, and making some great music. It's the home to a whole bunch of amazing electronic musicians like Osborne, Deastro, School of Seven Bells, and Michna. You may have heard of them through the compilation album "Ghostly Swim" which was released for free by Adult Swim on their website a while ago. They have a classy vibe, and are really pushing the envelope in terms of creativity in marketing, and incorporating visual art and graphics into the musical world. You should check out their website at ghostly.com
Check out this great animation from them for a taste. The soundtrack is absolutely dope and features the songs "Triple Chrome Dipped" by Michna and "Night Court" by Mux Mool. There are also quite a few really cool videos on Youtube presenting their artists.
Yesterday we, Feeding Fathers (Ryan, Julien, Nate, Lewis, and myself), made up a concoction of what could possibly be the biggest hit we have so far or the worst song we've wrote or composed.
Yet songs from bands that receive the most loathing and nauseam usually results in practically an explosion from fans.
"It's Really Not That Bad Guys" Julien
"It's Fun! (Said while laughing)" Nance
We'll just continue hyping the hell out of it until we actually record it.
On another note I realized I have a lot more to blog about when I get out and actually have a life, then why do some many of the lifeless have blogs?
What I'm Currently Excited About:
Sonic Youth: The Eternal
When all these come out it will make me a very, very, very happy boy!
So after being abandoned downtown I went on a bit of a stroll down the wet rainy and did I mention windy frigid streets of Asheville I found the perfect companion.
Straight up Swedish electronica which is scene sadly unnoticed (The Knife, Pacific!, El Perro Del Mar, Tough Alliance, Air France, Lo-Fi-Fnk, Embassy, Juvelen, Gentle Touch, and Zeigest just to name a few) in music now, sure it's not only limited to the region of Sweden because Australia, U.K, and Canada do pump out a good electronic act or two.
My lethal ear canal injection of choice was the Junior Boys an Ontario bound duo of two young tech savvy gentleman who make sparse, yet never empty, catchy, but never nauseating, mix of pop, dance, and straight up techno.
There's just some element of synth heavy music that really captures an icy and cold atmosphere. Something that just washes you over in a wave of otherwordlness.
"The advice I like to give to young artists, or really anybody, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens." Chuck Close-Painter, Photographer, Printmaker
