Lamniformes Radio

This episode is the audio version of an article that I wrote earlier this year about how a heady concept about the nature of sound from the producer SOPHIE could be applied to how I think about the drums. If you'd like to read the text version, you can find that here:

https://lamniformes.substack.com/p/the-monophonic-ear

Last Friday I dropped my first music video, for the song "Hypothermia (Saint Thrillah Mix) so I thought it'd be cool to have my good friend Richard Gin, who directed the video, on the podcast to talk about his experience shooting DIY shows in the NY DIY scene over the last decade and a half, his recent work photographing birds, and of course the process of making a music video during a pandemic.

You can find Gin's work here:

http://www.richardgin.org/

https://www.youtube.com/user/richardginorg

Here's my music:

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Frank Meadows rejoins the podcast to talk about the one and only Steely Dan, patron saints of the studio project. For the last five years I've watched Steely Dan's popularity sky rocket among deeply online millennials and music nerds at large. In the summer of 2019 I caught the bug myself, encouraged by Cat Jones, host of the Hot Blooded podcast. As a music school grade and child of boomers I have been fascinated by the insurgence of Steely Dan fandom among my generation, and I knew that I needed to talk it over with my good friend and collaborator Frank Meadows.

Here are our sources:

https://twitter.com/baddantakes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/18/arts/music/dad-rock.html

https://www.instagram.com/inzane_johnny/?hl=en

And here are our links:

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

https://linktr.ee/frank_meadows_music

https://hotbloodedpodcast.com/

Today I am joined by Dave Reminick of the band Paper Mice. Paper Mice are a three piece math rock band from Chicago who write songs based on bizarre and hilarious stories ripped directly from news stories. They just released their first album in eight years called "1-800-Mondays", which expands their sound into more melodic and deftly arranged chamber pop. As it so happens, Dave was also my entry level music theory teacher in college, so I was delighted to have him on to talk about his new record, formative memories listening to free jazz, and what it's like teaching music theory over Zoom.

You can find Paper Mice here:

https://papermice.bandcamp.com/

You can find my music here:

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Today's guest is drummer and audio engineer Emmett Ceglia. In his second appearance on the podcast, I spoke to Ceglia about his musical biography starting with drumming competitions in Long Island, studying drums at Berklee College of Music, and moving to Brooklyn to become a drummer for hire. Along the way we use a lot of sports metaphors, discuss "white whale" fills, breakdown the busiest stretch of Ceglia's career, and then close up with a conversation about the anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion", of which we are both big fans. I had a blast catching up with Emmett and talking about drums and the wider world of heavy music with him.

Here is the self described: "Emmett Extended Universe":

Detach The Islands (https://detachtheislands.bandcamp.com/)

Semaphore (https://semaphoretheband.bandcamp.com/)

Sannhet (https://sannhet.bandcamp.com/)

Fluoride (https://fluoridegrind.bandcamp.com/)

Heavenview (https://heavenview.bandcamp.com/)

Thin (https://thinshred.bandcamp.com/)

Juan Bond (https://juanbond.bandcamp.com/)

Gatherers (https://gatherersband.bandcamp.com/)

Cast Iron Kale (https://castironkale.bandcamp.com/releases)

No Dream (https://nodreamband.bandcamp.com/releases)

And here is the link to my own bandcamp, where you can grab my new album "You Can't Do This Alone": https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Today I am joined by musician and writer Ivan Belcic. Ivan is the vocalist and drum programmer for Kosmogyr, a black metal band he formed with guitarist Xander Cheng while living in Shanghai. When he isn’t writing his own music Ivan also writes about other up and coming metal bands for the blog Invisible Oranges, which is where I first met him. I was delighted to have Ivan on to talk about his experience in the Chinese heavy music scene, his early influences growing up in New Jersey, his dual life as both a musician and music blogger.

https://kosmogyr.bandcamp.com/

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone

https://reek-of-putrescine.bandcamp.com/album/the-fading-flame

https://celestialsanctuary.bandcamp.com/album/soul-diminished

https://balttw.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-withdrawals

https://aara.bandcamp.com/album/triade-i-eos

https://songs-of-arrakis.bandcamp.com/album/etemen-nka

I put out a record on Friday called "You Can't Do This Alone" so I figured I should talk about how and why.

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone

Today I am joined by writer Ryo Miyauchi who runs the blog and newsletter This Side of Japan, where he reviews and catalogs the best in new Japanese music. Ryo and I first met when we wrote for the website Unrecorded in the mid-2010s. I’ve always been impressed with Ryo’s voracious appetite for new music, as well as his prolific output as a writer.

Those qualities have carried over to This Side of Japan. I was psyched to have Ryo on to talk about his workflow, his perspective on the Japanese music scene as someone living in the USA, and a grab bag of other topics related to his excellent newsletter.

https://thissidejapan.substack.com/

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Today I am joined by Randall Taylor who makes music under the name Amulets. Taylor’s music sits at the edge of a few genres, ambient, drone, post rock, and noise, but what interests me most about Amulets is his process. Taylor repurposes old cassettes and tape players, tinkering with their circuitry and using them to create haunting looping drones. He also details this process extensively on his YouTube and Instagram pages, where he posts short improvisations on his manipulated gear. i wanted to talk to Taylor about how he developed this style of music making, his transparency about his work on social media, and his terrific new record Blooming, out on The Flenser on April 2nd.

Amulets:

https://nowflensing.com/collections/amulets

https://amulets.bandcamp.com/album/blooming

Lamniformes:

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Today I am joined by composer, percussionist and drummer, Clara Warnaar. If you’ve listened to Episode 38 of this podcast, you might already know Warnaar as the drummer of the instrumental trio Infinity Shred, but she is also an accomplished classic percussionist who makes a living performing with chamber ensembles. For the last two years she has also curated a series of compilations called A New Age For New Age. As the name would suggest, this series aims to reinterpret the often maligned genre of New Age music by opening it up to musicians who have no prior experience working in that style. Volumes 3 and 4 of A New Age For New Age are coming out on April 9th, so to mark the occasion I wanted to talk to Clara about the origins and goals of A New Age For New Age, as well as her experience working in both the metal and classical worlds.

http://www.clarawarnaar.com/

https://anewagefornewage.bandcamp.com/

https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-do-this-alone