Archives: August 2009
Thu Aug 13, 2009
Four videos from last week's gig...
It was a great gig -- nice folks, best lemonade on the planet, and a pretty good second set, some clips which are now up:
There's some nice versions of the Yaman tune and the Five, whcih you can see on on our youtube site, but here's a couple of embeds on new ones:
KISS Coffee: Garden Of Eden
This started as a completely open jam, and quickly morphed into a rendition of one of the pieces used in "Birth Of A Pillow." Of course, then it was on sarod and tabla...we've never played it in this instrumentation before, so it was a surprise and a premiere for both of us! A little shaky on some aspects of the 'head', not being sure how it would lay it on guitar, but it has a nice feel and some cool moments.
The title is from the particular vignette from the film, though we privately refer it to as "bluegrass." Loosely based on raag Brindabani Sarang.
KISS Coffee: O.P.
This is a recent developing semi-jam; "O.P." stands for the Octave Patch used on the guitar (love that microPOG!). A different feel from some of our other samples we've posted.
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Sun Aug 09, 2009
KISS coffee gig
KISS Coffee gig was fun! nice setting, good food, and they really do have great lemonade! 1st set a little a stiff as we got used to the sound, but second set rocked, i think...
many thanks to Robin, Melissa, Josh, Josh, Andrew and all the others who came out or stopped by to see it. truly grateful for the support!
good friend Andrew B. took the flip cam and shot something ---thanks! i'll take a look at the footage Sunday...
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Sat Aug 08, 2009
last minute gig in Alb's historic Old Town!
looking forward to a quickly booked show TONIGHT (SAt, Aug 8) in Alb's historic Old Town at:
KISS Coffee at Patio Escondido
404 San Felipe, just off Mountain Rd
Old Town
Albuquerque, NM 87104 US
we'll be there from 7 to 9...c ya there!
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Sun Aug 02, 2009
site changes, new features - and new release planned!
A lot of news:
As you can tell, I'm in the process of updating the site, bringing it in line with some of the social networking and music apps we have. It will take some time to integrate it through all the sections of the site, but I'm making progress.
One of the main things that's happening is the consolidation of an email list, which until now has been done manually; I'll be sending out a final manual email to folks we've contacted in the past, but if you're here , please sign up on the email list widget on the left.
You'll notice an embedded music player; a Twitter feed; our Facebook fans; a link to full details on our integrated material on Reverb Nation; show schedule (a little thin at the moment); and more to come.
As we're sharing more and more performance and rehearsal videos ( I think music this improvised needs to be seen as well as heard), I'm trying to find a good way to present those easily -- a couple of options I'm exploring for that.
This is all ramping up to, finally, a projected release this fall. With the 'Travel Bug' CD release over 5 years old and not very representative at all of our current focus, it's high time to offer some definitive, well-recorded performances in a cohesive presentation.
There's a lot of great moments on the rehearsal tracks we've uploaded, to be sure. I've always had an 'open source' philosophy, to document and share the process as it goes along, so while the cuts you're hearing now may be representative, what more, what best is possible? Discovering and ultimately sharing that is a big part of what we're doing over the next few months (we don't want to shy away from live work either as we hone it).
Tentative plans are to record during August, select and edit in September, mastering/graphics/production in Sept/October, official release some time early November. We'll be doing a primarily digital only release with comprehensive distribution, with a very limited number of actual physical CDs.
Stay tuned, watch our Twitter for little daily updates, and sign up on our list....
thanks!
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Happy Friendship Day!
To all our Desi friends , fans and supporters -- have a very happy Friendship Day! thanks for your friendship, connection and support; hope you are all are thriving and happy. Wishing all of you the very best continued success, across the miles...
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