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What do we owe to one another? To our symbionts? This is perhaps not quite the question asked by the narrator in E.W. Harris’ new-classic, recently sonically reimagined. But it is the question I found myself asking while listening to … Continue reading →

  My friend E.W. Harris has released a beautiful new record called Mimetic Desire. You should give it a listen. You should buy it. One of the really exciting things about this record is the quality of the songs. A … Continue reading →

Back at the beginning of the year there was some talk of maybe putting together a collaborative music blog. That never quite materialized, but in anticipation of it’s potential existence I wrote of piece of review-like music quasi-journalism. I would … Continue reading →

Harlem. The temperature is only in the 80’s, but it’s suffocating humid and the August sun has an undeniable sting to it today. It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that sting, the man said. Or something like … Continue reading →

  A thing that I think happens a lot in comments and review sections is that people seem to get pulled along by the internal logic of their comment. Or maybe succumb to their own rhetoric to the point that … Continue reading →

  Sometimes the bad reviews make you want something even more than the good reviews. For instance from June 14, 2004, the only 1 star Amazon review of the BIS recording of Alfred Schnittke’s Faust Cantata: If you love sickness, … Continue reading →

One day I was reading some heavily misspelled, half literate hate review of something that could not possibly have been as bad as the review itself and I thought, I should review these reviews. I never write reviews of anything, … Continue reading →

THE PAST: A while back I came up with this idea for an experiment. I would build some multi-track recordings with an iPad microphone and Garage Band for iPad, and then posting the results online. This as a way to … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentleman (and mutants). At this very moment there is a group of fellow human beings out there in the world, and they are traveling across the southeastern corner of our nation. This group makes up three-quarters of the … Continue reading →

Ladies, gentlemen, representatives from the Walgreens PR department. As you may know, I have been working on an unorthadox recording project. The basic gist is that I’ve been spending many, many hours playing and singing into an iPad, to create relatively low quality recordings … Continue reading →