Sep 2024
On the way back to the cool, green pastures of North East England, I stopped off for a couple of weeks in NYC to finally work with the supremely talented Nicole Patrick, extraordinary drummer and all-round musician, on our reimagination of the possibly never-written record of a Minnesota-based power duo, dubbed onto a cassette tape of children’s Christian music that I received in the post with a keyboard bought from Ebay. Take a quick listen to Nic’s funky playing on this very tiny slice, just enough to whet:
Coming to a stage, maybe, at some point in the future, nearish to you? It’s a tricky one, because of the pesky ocean. If you like what you hear and you’d like to book us, please let us know. How it will work live requires Some Exploration. Thanks to NYU for the use of their beautiful Mercer Street studio in SOHO, to Jaime Oliver for the hookup, and to all the staff in the Mercer building who so generously accommodated our needs. Also I went to the Sufjan Stevens broadway extravaganza, which was so awesome and better than I could have imagined it would be, and has put me spiraling deliriously into a recap of the music of my teens.
Last week Ian Sankey and I finally finished the Berio & Grock set that we began almost a year ago–the thing we’re calling Sequenza XV–with a week at The Glasshouse’s Foundry residence! We were holding out for good weather for some slightly adventurous filming with motorbikes and traffic, and then all kinds of life and work things intervened, which which meant the finishing touches to one of the pieces took Literally Ten Months to make. But it’s here now, and we’ll be booking something as soon as we’re playing the music correctly.
My friend T.Z. put another little record out on his bandcamp, and this time made a video too. I’m going to plug it here because why not, alongside my old friend Sean Stevens’ new tape under the name SYM; it’s an insane and totally virtuosic piece of computer music: think Plaid had a baby with Squarepusher through some kind of devilish Richard D. James reproductive technology, but then retooled for 2077 and beyond. I have one of the 32 hard copies that there are in the world (so there :p), but you can get your digital at the link just above. It slaps terribly hard. Ah, T.Z. below:
The new record is done, and I’m into it. It’s gone for mastering, and will be back soon, and in the meantime I’m on the hunt for a venue to put it out. OR maybe I’m going to do it myself, but either way, it’s come to my attention that we need some kind of webshop around here if things are going to run smoothly and effectively, for records and films and fun weird stuff we make moving forward. I’m actively working on this, so keep your peepers peeled and your plastic prepped, and I’ll update this post when the joesna.pe consumer portal is up and running. Mmm, stuff to buy. Below a repost of Far Northern Summer (I’m saving the other good stuff for later, because you know you want it all in one lovely drop).
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