On Sunday, I sang in a benefit concert for a local charity that provides counseling and support services for people impacted by gun violence, including those who have been injured, the families of those who have been killed, and those who have served jail time and are attempting to repatriate into society. I did two sets of songs; the first was three art songs by Robert Schumann (Mein schöner Stern, Widmung, Du bist wie eine Blume) and the second three were spirituals (Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Deep River; Ride On, King Jesus). I thought it came out pretty well:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ycmq25i1mnlpd7eqdtxu8/IMG_8018.MOV?rlkey=gdo0psf0u116v4r1mjou29mvt&dl=0
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 14:35 (four months ago) link
note to self: if you don't really know how to use logic that well, trying to quantize a sample from metal machine music may end up eating your brain and set off a series of cascading errors that make the entire song unusable
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 May 2024 19:10 (four months ago) link
Dan, I apologize for not getting to this earlier - work was blocking it, and then I had issues with the Dropbox link, but I got it up now finally!
as always, I love your tone and intonation, dynamics, and diction! would love to show some of my mush-mouthed, nasal musical theater peers this video as a 'how to'.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 16 May 2024 22:46 (four months ago) link
Oh wow, that is a massive compliment! Thank you!
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Friday, 17 May 2024 14:40 (four months ago) link
vinyl copies of our record arrived today, they sound fucking great, this is definitely the best day of my life
― ivy., Friday, 24 May 2024 20:33 (four months ago) link
Congrats!
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:06 (four months ago) link
congrats Ivy!!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 25 May 2024 00:11 (four months ago) link
Ivyyyyyyyyy congrats!!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 May 2024 02:24 (four months ago) link
Congratulations!
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 25 May 2024 03:43 (four months ago) link
that is very cool ivy! congrats
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 25 May 2024 05:07 (four months ago) link
Congrats, how many did you press?
I got the masters back for the record I've been working on and I'm very happy with them, whew. I do kinda want to do a very short vinyl run, like 50 copies or less, even if it doesn't make sense financially.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:30 (four months ago) link
there are a few places out there that let you do an express order of 100, sort of a gamble bc there’s no test pressing, but we figured we really didn’t need more than that many (we’ve only sold 20), and it turned out great
― ivy., Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:35 (four months ago) link
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Saturday, 25 May 2024 12:39 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFyS0-2kURQ
had no idea someone took a video of us during our last show in february. i drop a stick during the outro but otherwise... killed it
― ivy., Monday, 3 June 2024 13:16 (three months ago) link
OH SHIT!!! i TOTALLY saw your band at a dive bar in Astoria like a year ago
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 01:14 (three months ago) link
also, you fucking ruled
*and* you looked amazing
The way i described it to my friend was 3 charismatic personalities who mostly stake out their own territory and never quite meld together, but the moments when they come to meet is the most joyous release. the way other bands have quiet/loud dynamics this band has magnetism and pulling apart.
i fucking loved it, and i don't even listen to this kind of music at all
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 01:18 (three months ago) link
anyway i have been looking for someone to teach me to play sho... and it turns out Columbia U has a gagaku ensemble! and i'm allowed to participate, barring any change in policy that would exclude members of the community. there's just one thing, i have to buy a sho first lol. and the beginner models cost like $1200 and have to be ordered 6 mos in advance. but fuck it i am doing this, i can sell my rock instruments that i dont play anymore.
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 01:22 (three months ago) link
― Deflatormouse, Monday, June 3, 2024 9:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
omg!!!
― ivy., Tuesday, 4 June 2024 11:29 (three months ago) link
was the show at irish whiskey bar? best we've ever sounded, somehow, even though the situation was supremely disorganized when we arrived. thank god for scene lifer and the nicest and coolest soundman i've ever met, snake
― ivy., Tuesday, 4 June 2024 15:25 (three months ago) link
that’s the one! I never would’ve remembered the name of the bar, but who could forget Snake??If it’s the best you ever sounded then i feel so lucky to have caught it!!
― Deflatormouse, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:31 (three months ago) link
that video is great ivy, your band reminds me of Q and Not U in a way
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 16:40 (three months ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, June 4, 2024 12:40 PM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
biggest compliment on earth!!!!!
― ivy., Friday, 7 June 2024 04:10 (three months ago) link
also, it's live, and i never have to post about it again https://faithvoid.bandcamp.com/album/weird-chills
whoa, this album smokes!
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 7 June 2024 04:27 (three months ago) link
Sure as hell does! I posted about it last night to Bluesky (tagging Mattie natch -- are you on there, ivy?), and jamie quinn was overwhelmed in response:
https://bsky.app/profile/threnody.bsky.social/post/3kucrnk5c4c2q
"holy christ the guitar on bonehenge feels like having a fever dream under hot sand."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:51 (three months ago) link
Anyway in honor of the combined release day F/V needs to open for Charli XCX on her forthcoming tour so you both can collectively wreck everybody.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 June 2024 14:52 (three months ago) link
thank you so much ned!!!! i feel hopped up on goofballs today
(i’m not on bluesky, and after my insta and fb got deleted i decided to never make a new social media account) (tho i do run the band instagram since i have so much free time on account of having no personal social media)
― ivy., Friday, 7 June 2024 15:06 (three months ago) link
I can't wait to listen, big congrats ivy.!
― frociaggine e figaggine (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 7 June 2024 16:16 (three months ago) link
well, it's really happening, the Cassini album is coming out on Echodelick Records on vinyl.
not to be too sentimental but it's been a dream of mine my whole life to have a record that I played on, ever since I was listening to my dad's CCR and Stones records as a little kid. Took me decades to get there, but I'm really over the moon.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C8J_tAHJ1HT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:07 (three months ago) link
omg this freakin rules!!!
― ivy., Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:12 (three months ago) link
Congrats ums!!!
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:16 (three months ago) link
Sick!
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:19 (three months ago) link
ums I totally appreciate your feeling there. huge congrats my man!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:20 (three months ago) link
that is awesome!
― imago, Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:21 (three months ago) link
huge sounds btw!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:21 (three months ago) link
thanks y'all! really really appreciate your sentiments. kind of weirdly emotional for me, more than i expected
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:30 (three months ago) link
Go with it! Feelings are good and so is achieving life goals ❤️ congrats!
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 June 2024 17:47 (three months ago) link
As long as you keep on chooglin' all of your dreams will come true <3
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:40 (three months ago) link
thanks LL
deflatormouse - i knew from age 3 or 4 that i was going to choogle through life
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 20:41 (three months ago) link
Congrats. It’s been a life goal of mine as well but about to turn 45
― Heez, Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:36 (three months ago) link
I fucked up by doing it waaay too early in my 'career' and now I have a phobia of making anything physical that I'll never be able to get rid of.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:47 (three months ago) link
Heez you've got timeI have personally taken 500 unsold CDs to the city dump lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 13 June 2024 21:55 (three months ago) link
okay and I released an EP too, am quite proud of this one (in a lo-fi bedroom way)
https://acoleuthic.bandcamp.com/album/perdy-crow-and-hulbasketry-owl-cast-critical-eye-over-music-itself
― imago, Friday, 14 June 2024 06:11 (three months ago) link
congrats to ivy and ums on the releases, both completed and upcoming! what i heard of FAITH/VOID was awesome, i need to go back and finish listening to iti still have boxes of CDs in the basement from my band that broke up in 2009, maybe i should rent a blimp and throw them out to the city's populationonly vinyl i've been on was for playing in my friend's band where he wrote all the songs and i played exactly what he told me to. it's cool that i have that at least but it would be different to have your own project that you contributed to on vinyl.
― na (NA), Friday, 14 June 2024 13:02 (three months ago) link
UMS, this sounds amazing. Congrats.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 14 June 2024 15:39 (three months ago) link
My old band did some alternative distribution with some CDs. We took some to Goodwill and local NPR record sale. Left some at the counter of a local head shop.
Funny enough a couple times we ran into people that found the CD there and gave it a listen.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Friday, 14 June 2024 16:40 (three months ago) link
I am extremely looking forward to hearing this album UMS I love the Instagram preview
Ivy. your album rules ofc
Will listen to yours tonight imago
Wow!
― frociaggine e figaggine (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 14 June 2024 16:44 (three months ago) link
swing by SFMOMA and pick up our new LP from the gift shop lolhttps://media.universeodon.com/media_attachments/files/112/616/970/110/186/323/original/4c9bfcff5e9beeb3.png
― famous instagram dog (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 June 2024 21:01 (three months ago) link
what record Shakey?really want to thank everyone for the kind words and also say that it's really cool there feels like there's a lot of energy in this thread lately and people doing cool stuff, very nice to see
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 June 2024 22:50 (three months ago) link