UPDATE 072010: flyer now edited with more accurate set time info
Thursday August 5! Father Abraham with a live band @ EMF! The Force! Art created using my childhood baseball card collection! Drinks courtesy of Naragasett!
You need very few more details than this. I will provide these details in due time.
Laurie Anderson is my new favorite rapper.
Considering that I produced their new Grow Rich EP, My official bump of Felix and Volcano! is way past due. Without further delay, here it is:
Felix and Volcano! is a synth-pop outfit from Dover, New Hampshire, fronted by Sam Ueda (above, right) and a used Boss DR-202 Dr. Groove beat machine. Sam works the Dr. Groove like he wrote the software himself - as a synth junkie, I love it when people as intimately close with their gear as Sam was to this little piece of plastic. Say what you want about synths - wait, don’t - but when someone takes the time to play their synth like an instrument, beautiful things can happen. Check out Shaadows, my personal favorite from the EP:
Sam also writes clean, concise, and direct pop songs that come so naturally to him that we had a hard time paring his catalog of prospective songs down to EP-length. I really enjoyed taking Sam’s material and running it through my analog gear. The Dr. Groove was already really warm for a digital instrument (it even had its own digital tape-hiss!)
Please go to Felix’s bandcamp page and purchase the entire Grow Rich EP. In a landscape full of bullshit remixes, overzealous digital programming, and naked ambition poorly disguised as music, these five songs are a song for sore ears. No doubt you will appreciate the elegant simplicity of the arrangements, the humility of Sam’s voice, the uncanny patience of a nineteen year-old, and (okay, I’m going to plug myself here) the unusual and pleasant sonic depth of the whole affair.
Oh. And it’s a whole lot of goddamned fun.
Just in case you don’t believe me, check the reviews (yep, Sam’s a whiz at getting the word out, too):
Boston Band Crush (love these guys!)
My face was in print media this morning. How pretty. Click the link to see Chris Faraone’s quick writeup of the song.
This is sort of in the wrong order. Check the previous post for video of Quiet D Episode 24, and enjoy yourself.
Check out Quiet Desperation Episode 24, featuring a rendition of “Revere Beach” and some light acting by yours truly. Enjoy!
Click below for your summer jam:
Revere Beach (Father Abraham RMX)
Revere Beach (Father Abraham RMX Radio Edit)
And for good measure, in case any of you North Shorers want to cut your own cheese:
Revere Beach (Father Abraham RMX Instrumental)
I did this piece for Quiet Desperation, an internet reality sitcom based in Allston and fronted by local public intellectual Rob Potylo. There is a whole backstory involved and you will have to watch some early episodes to understand with your heart what I am saying with my synthesizers, but I was basically given two guiding principles, which I will list below
Guiding Principles of Revere Beach RMX
1. Sucking and fucking
2. Ay ay ay.
, and I was let loose.
Rob delegates well, no?
The short story is: We are Tin Tin Buffet, we are a local rap group, and we are coming 4 yr children so RUN RUN RUN RUN. I even made us a logo from a picture that I downloaded from the internet and re-posted:
Check out the show at quietd.com. I will post the relevant episode to this site shortly.
