what is going on in your musical life

String quartets are for nerds with special interest for classical music...

― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Monday, 11 October 2010 16:44 (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Should have listened to the guy.

Yeh the age thing, I always think of Gary in pavement. He brought so much.

Good post earlnash. Gonna be sending stuff off for mastering soon and I'll keep that in mind

We had our first rehearsal for our fall concert yesterday; here is one of the pieces we are going to sing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rInPdARnYw

finally got our new album mastered, here's a track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WsUWf0sXQ&feature=youtu.be

Doesn't play for me.

huh wtf

how about this
https://youtu.be/Q2WsUWf0sXQ

That works.

I finally worked up the guts to contact a local musician I'm a big fan of to offer my services in support. I uploaded some old bullshit on soundcloud for her to check out, but haven't heard back from her, which is kind of a blow to the ego, but hey so what

another one:
https://t.co/kyeaKAG4oA

Not my musical life, but my brother's; his band's song was played on this episode of the Tony Kornheiser Show (31:25)

https://art19.com/shows/the-tony-kornheiser-show/episodes/76aba484-c675-448b-b17b-1f210df0a7e0

I'm going to perform Blonde on Blonde, in full on Thursday.

won best performance at this event:
http://finishing-school-art.net/Executive-Order-Karaoke-The-Obama-Years-2016

One of the groups I sing in has been dormant for a while. Recently, we got the call that we needed to put together a donated performance in about a week for a private house party. We were never a large group anyway; at our largest during my tenure, we had 10 members (SSAAATTBBB) and in the intervening years, half have moved away and others have become too busy to sing in the group, so we needed to rally to pull together this performance. The woman organizing everything found an accompanist, recruited a former member and found a new tenor, and pulled together a group of kids from a feeder chorus directed by one of the group's alums so we'd have a decent representation to do about an hour's worth of music. This was the state of things at the end of last week.

Over the course of this week:

- My wife dropped out for health reasons
- The returning member dropped out for health reasons
- The tenor dropped out to celebrate his birthday
- The accompanist dropped out because it is an unpaid gig

So, this Saturday I will be singing a gig a capella with one other adult ad 5 kids I've never heard before for a dude's party, which will have a bunch of donors in attendance and where we need to be on our A-game.

SHOULD BE FUN

(I'm considering a pseudonym)

set list?

All spirituals:

Here's what I was thinking as far as rep:
Ain't a that good news
Ain't got time to die
Done made my vow
I want Jesus to walk with me
King Jesus is a listening
Oh freedom
Lazrus
Rockin' Jerusalem
Ride the Chariot
Soon-ah will be done
Live a humble
Ride the chariot

One band I'm playing with went from 3 piece to 2, I'm no longer supporting percussion but playing full kit. Enjoying that but it limits my wardrobe somewhat. Also slightly more time consuming since I have to practice new songs & not f them up but it has been really fun so far.

our new album is OUT
http://societyofrockets.org/
https://societyofrockets.bandcamp.com/

woo!
looks like my band will FINALLY have an EP available on bandcamp sometime this month! i think it turned out pretty cool! i love playing music, even though I don't do it too much these days.

this is Forces at Work yr talking about?

yeah! it's only taken us like 4 years to put together a 4-song EP.

I'm guessing you're not in a German progressive metal band?

haha no

call the lawyers

those guys are more like Farces At Work imo.
those are great song titles though

lol @ FORCILIZED

apparently my colleague in the spiritual group has access to accompanying tracks for our solos, which is good

it also looks like I'll be singing something like 5 solos in this gig, which will be silly (I've only ever sung 1 or 2 but this is what happened when all the conservatory-trained adults drop out and you're backfilling them with skittish high school kids)

that looks like a wonderful setlist DJP

Our actual set list is going to look more like:

In Bright MAnsions
Joshua fit de battle of Jericho
Soon-ah will be done
Old Man Lazrus
Way up in Beulah land
Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Ain't-a that good news?
I can tell the world

Solos that I will be splitting with the other adult include some of the following (the first 7 are hers):

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
My Lord, What A Morning
Just Another Day
Balm in Gilead
Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
I love the name
Stand still, Jordan
Been in the Storm
Ride on, King Jesus
You may bury me in the east
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
I want Jesus to walk with me
Deep River

Balm in Gilead is a beaut, one of my favorites

The only church music I know is "you saw me crying in the chapel" which, by the use of the word "you" introduces a third party, which really isn't necessary.

The Society of Rockets sounds really great.

thx
just booked an album release show for 2/5 with these guys http://www.conspiracyofbeards.com/

btw, my gig went shockingly well considering that I was singing with high school students who were freaking out about singing at a private party

I ended up singing You may bury me, I want Jesus, Been in the storm, and Deep River. Didn't think to record it, oops.

So ~gulp~ I posted my first thing to Bandcamp. It's basically novitiate synth music done in iOS over the last 9 months but I think it's at least flavorful and hopefully engaging enough despite my (inherited from my guitar days) penchant for annoying additive rhythms?

https://algaemetric.bandcamp.com/album/sixteen-seasons

Awesome! Can't wait to dig in.

playing a memorial concert on Sunday. haven't played out since the summer.

what kind of stuff are you playing? solo?

i am on one of the tracks that jon posted! in two days i am supposed to play a show but first i have to extract my car from the city pound ;_;

it's a long story.

it went better than I expected.

excellent to hear, sorry you had that specific occasion to play

yeah, there were some press people there, which I hadn't even thought about when I volunteered to play, but when I saw them with their cameras, I said to myself, "Of course." Pretty much whenever I saw someone come up to me hauling pro camera gear, I turned my back to them. Fortunately, my instrument was conducive to that.

glad it worked out; it's a tough situation all the way around

on my end of things, I sang in our annual "half-hour Messiah" recital where a quartet from my church choir sings several Messiah arias and then does a Hallelujah chorus singalong with the audience; it went well and my wife's Rejoice Greatly was pretty good considering she has a massive cold and this was her first big solo sing post-surgery and post-chemo

this is happening

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C0TiNVdUQAAdu7f.jpg

xp - your wife is amazing.

hey Sarah you performance looked/sounded so rad from what I saw
hey Shakey I'll be at that show

I came out with a new free EP of weirdo lo-fi Chaki funk http://chaki.bandcamp.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DmhRMcE53Y

xp Shakey that rocks. And that poster is amazing btw.

all shakey's band posters look like that.

looks great shakes, is there going to be a bootleg of it?