On the way home from class tonight, I heard a jazz drummer practicing up in one of the practice rooms somewhere in a nearby building. It’s terribly windy tonight, and he (I think I glimpsed him through a window, and it was indeed a ‘he’) was burning his way through a fast post-boppish cycle, and the sound of the crashing cymbals and off-kilter rhythm seemed to match the low-roaring wind just perfectly. If I weren’t feeling sniffly and sick, I might have gone looking for him, to see if he was good as he sounded from far away. It’d be …
Category: MY MUSIC
eclexys » Tunes (with me in ‘em)
Seeing that Dabang Band CDs seem to be all sold out, and seeing that as far as I know, we have no outstanding legal responsibilities to Cavare (the label for the Product CD, who’s never disclosed how many CDs sold or how much money was made, or any other contractual stuff since the contracts were signed and disappeared) I’ve gone ahead and updated this site’s “Tunes (with me in ‘em)” subpage to include all tracks from the first two Dabang Band CDs. I’m going to confirm with the other band members and then if they’re okay with it, release it …
Taxi Blues and Other Dabang News
Here’s some surprising news! Myoung Jae, with whom I used to play in the Dabang Band, informed me that a film that played at the Busan film festival, titled Taxi Blues, is being prepared for general release in Korea. The film features a snippet of the band’s performance of the original song “Taxi Blues” (one of Myoung’s babies) as well as having the whole song play over the closing credits. So anyone in Korea, if you want to see my OST debut — meaning the first and probably last time anything I’m involved in gets onto an OST — make …
Failings
When you’re young, every small failure makes you feel as if you have been struck down. If you have fallen off your bicycle into the mud, you look around to see if anyone saw it happen. If you tripped on your own shoelace, your face goes red. If your failings are deeper than that as a child, heaven help you: you’re still glancing around months later to see if anyone is looking at you in the way you think you recognize, the way you fear because it makes you feel so incredibly small and awful. When you get older, you …
Piles Of Free Music (Featuring Me)
Okay, for those of you interested, there’s a big old pile of snippets from my most recent musical history added to this site. In the sidebar, you can see the link under Pages that says, “Tunes (with me in ’em)”; if you click on it (or on this link), you’ll be taken to a page with one full out-of-print Dabang album, snippets from the still-in-print one, and a remixed recording of a live concert I did at a rave with a live ambient group back in 1998. If you plan on listening repeatedly, please download instead of streaming it, because …