This is one of the most powerful pieces of music I have ever recorded. It was featured in the finale of the experimental film, ‘Nightsoil‘ by the Overdub Club. Together they make for some very compelling art. Listen on a good stereo or headphones and listen to it loud.
LM – guitars and bassJenya Chernoff [...]
Sonic Demons LSG, SF 4.22.10
Myself and Suki O’Kane taking on a live version of Sonic Demons, which was released last year on Edgetone Records
Sometimes one simply takes on too much in an effort to be constructively busy. And sometimes one simply doesn’t have enough time (or mismanages it) to work on priorities. This is how I was feeling last week after two shows where it felt like I wasn’t at my best.
The recent Sonic Demons Pt I group [...]
My time as director and curator of the creative music series The Ivy Room Experimental & Improv Hootenanny in Albany CA is soon coming to a close as I am moving (back) to NYC. The reins have been placed in the capable hands of veteran local musicians Suki O’Kane and Alan Korn. They are sure [...]
Tonight is a special show. My first conducted composition for large ensemble. It’s big. It’s beautiful. Piece to Celebrate the Proximity of Pearl Harbor Day and the Death of John Lennon on the only date it can happen – Mon Dec 7 @ The Makeout Room in San Francisco. Rehearsal last night was very productive, [...]
The 8th annual Starry Plough Murder Ballads Bash this past Halloween eve was really great. I was there with the Bodice Rippers performing, Tigerero our tale of death in the jungle and Options, a klezmer inspired song that muses upon all of one’s post mortem options. Great sets by Dylan Champagne, Penelope Houston, John Shiurba, [...]
The Overdub Club is proud to announce the completion of the HD video version of Nightsoil. We have worked long and hard to bring this former performance piece to a place where it can be screened. The premier is slated for Sept 30 at the The Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Nightsoil is a single channel video [...]
Suki O’Kane and I have launched yet another new project: Delicate & Destructive. We played at the Sacramento ‘In the Flow’ Jazz festival this past Saturday. 105 degrees in Sacto that day and driving to the afternoon gig in a AC car sans AC, I thought I might melt. The festival featured ‘jazz’ (and the [...]
I am presently enjoying a Young’s Double Chocolate Stout, recommended by my musical comrade, Rob Price. Rob is a wicked guitar player and beer aficionado, amongst other fine things in life. As to the Double Chocolate – it is hard to only sip. In fact, I admit to taking several large gulps.
But I digress. The [...]
Albany CA is a sleepy little city that is part of the East Bay just north of Berkeley. A mostly ‘middle class’ (for the SF Bay Area) kinda place where people raise kids without the fears of many modern urban dwellers. It has a conservative 1950s feel to it, and from what I hear the [...]
