July 2010
19 posts
We Bought the Flood
Hey All,
If you’ve seen our live show, you know that video has always been our ‘front man’. Since Windish convinced us to start touring we knew we needed some kind of foil to keep attention moving around the stage so we could focus on the task at hand without feeling like an ant under a magnifying glass. Since then it’s turned into this strange hybrid form of...
A Wonderful Phrase By Gandhi
Hi Everyone.
In 1931 Mahatma Gandhi was asked by Columbia Gramaphone to make a record for them. With some second thoughts, he decided to record an essay that he had written called ‘On God’. It is one of the best recordings of his voice still in existence, and Paul had found several instances of it on various historical LP’s in his collection. We used a small fragment of this...
Thirty incoming (second half)
Hey all,
sorry! I was so sleepy last night… my thoughts were feeling way in the background. Now they feel more front and center so I’ll write a bit more about 30 incoming.
I can subconsciously trace the musical imagery of this track to something that my father told me when I was in school studying the visual arts. I think at the time he was coming to terms with the fact that I was...
Thirty Incoming (first half)
Hey All,
This track contains what I have come to believe is the ‘best answering machine tape of all time”. I remember the first time I heard the tape pretty clearly. We were in the van, a gray 15 passenger Dodge we called Arthur, on tour in 2006 somewhere in the Midwest. My wife and I were previewing some of the tapes that we had found during the past week when we first played...
in the meantime
Hey All,
I’m meeting with Todd Reynolds this morning about the track/video we’re making with him. Then we’re taking the boys on a long car trip. (try keeping this up for 5 hours straight!)
I’ll write about Thirty Incoming tonight. In the meantime check this out (thanks to fellow tumblr user awpoop for finding it):
Books: Check ‘em out.
Until this evening,
Nick
All You Need Is A Wall
Hey All,
This is a pretty cryptic song:
and if its a wall then you should cast a shadow maybe possibly it’s a thought you think is true when you appear to be belief, belief
i never loved a wall so much
asleep in a chair where the two go click look at the floor flat pattern order it’s the great power one receives from a very modest source and you don’t feel a thing when you...
Chain of Missing Links
Hey everybody,
This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Happy New Great Year!
Consciousness is exploding and developing!
We find a lot of unmarked and cryptically labeled cassettes. Most of them just turn out to be mixtapes, which are fun to listen to in the van, but every once and a while there’s something really unexpected on there. The voice from ”Chain of...
I Am Who I Am
Hello All,
“I Am Who I Am” came from one of Paul’s greatest finds to date. The whole rant came from a rare sermon that he found on a tape in a Salvation Army somewhere. The sermon is about Exodus 3:14 and the many other occurrences of the “Name of God” in the Bible (and the Torah for that matter.) In the Old Testament God tells Moses (in Hebrew) that his name is...
Cold Freezin’ Rhythm:
This is the sound...
Beautiful People
Hey,
Beautiful people, happy full moon.
Apart from being called a nerd countless times in the most public of ways, i’m really pleased with the response to this track so far. In the vast hymnal of songs written about the twelfth root of two, this one seems to be finding it’s place, alleluia. I know Urban Outfitters likes it, and they’re not geeks…
Seriously, if...
A Cold Freezin' Night
Hi All.
A Cold Freezin’ Night also came very early in the process of making ‘The Way Out’. The Talkboy tapes, as I described in my blog entry of June 23, were another highlight of Paul’s sample library. Since we leaked this track last month, the responses have ranged from unbridled joy, to bitter commentary on my parenting skills. (It’s funny how many people assume...
I Didn't Know That
Hey All,
We finished I Didn’t Know That pretty early on in the process of making ‘The Way Out’. For a while we didn’t know what to think of it.
One of the greatest jackpots that Paul hit in his sample hunting was the hi-hat part in this song, which came from a very rare record that he found on our 2006 tour (I think). It was clear to both of us that, although it fell...
IDKT
Hey all,
IDKT is the second track from the record, and serves as a kind of fanfare for I Didn’t Know That, the Hebrew Stenography Funk Jam that follows.
One of the strengths of Paul’s current sample library is it’s orchestral section, which includes beautiful vinyl based samples of orchestral instruments playing mostly open notes or simple scales. They are tremendously useful...
Group Autogenics I
Hello, Greetings and…
Since our last record came out in 2005 Paul has been working on rebuilding and reorganizing his sample library. He’s got some 30,000 samples now, neatly categorized into folders like: ‘Foghorns’, ‘Insects’, ‘Mechanical Instruments’, ‘Strange, Small’, ‘Telephones, Beeps’. At least half of the library...
Big, Huge and Exciting!
Hey All!
I’ve been waiting what feels like forever for this. The record is released… You can find it at your quality local record store today. If not, let us know and we’ll try to entice them to stock it. Also you can buy directly from our label here…
CD & LP: http://temporaryresidence.com/descriptions/trr183.php A Friendly Appeal:
Please, buy a copy. We have...
The Way Out - Out!
Hey All!
The day has officially arrived (although it unofficially arrived about a week ago, as many of you know!) The whole record is streaming from NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128415181
Please comment on the NPR site, we’re all really curious to see what you think.
Here’s what I think:
It’s our best record so far, and I mean that in the most...
"The Way Out" - entire album streaming on npr now!... →
"The Way Out" preorder on iTunes now
Now you can preorder “The Way Out” in a fine unlimited digital edition from iTunes. Stock up your iPods-iPads-iPhones-iPhoneys-iPhoraneyes and other semi-implants!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/the-way-out/id379478054
A Cold Freezin' Video
Hey All,
We just posted the video for ‘A Cold Freezin’ Night’.
you can watch it here: http://www.vimeo.com/12924760
or here: http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/14565-a-cold-freezin-night/
or here!: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/06/video-a-cold-freezin-night-is-for-bad-kids-of-all-ages.html.
We’re good kids, really.
On our thrift store runs, mostly...
