Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The idea of a 'tour cd'...

With a 'rare' performance coming up in LA this weekend,  I was inspired to compile some musical strays from the past year.  Each of these pieces is part of a larger body of work still taking shape, yet the ones I included here are more or less 'finished'.   One is a track I was asked to make for a Daido Moriyama project featuring his zoo animal photos but seeing how I haven't heard anything about this in a few years now, I'm imagining it's mine to do with what I want.  I've also been having fun with a dulcimer my friend Greg Bianchini made for me, run through a generous amount of reverb.  The there are my amateurish pluckings on various weird string instruments I continue to find at flea markets.  I also included a 'rehearsal' recording for this upcoming show.  Even if the live event bombs, I have this record of my attempts which I quite like. 
Kendra Lichtenwalner sweetly donated covers for the CDr from her own drawer of stray prints and paintings.  Inevitably, we will be working together soon on an lp.  Here are a few examples of the covers I'm taking to LA....