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I saw Danette at our show last night and realized I hadn't done anything with this amazing field recording I took back on August 1st. What was going on that night!? A few owls very close to our front door were the backdrop for my listening inside - a new Hans Reichel compilation - you can faintly hear the strains here.

Pictured - the ceiling at New Luck Toy in West Seattle.

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Caudal Peduncle - 1st show since recording. Lots of folks thinking they were hearing new arrangements, but I think recording just really tightened us up.

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Got to see Leo play a brief set at the Moore tonight, opening for Jim Croce's son. He intended for me to hang with him backstage a bit but alas, the message was not received by the staff. He played beautifully anyways.

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It's been solid notation time on a new hedges piece for Stropes, and I've been listening more than playing. Here's another brief dose of that Leegajus record.

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This record Leegajus was found in a musty tiny record store in Berlin in 2001. We used this piece on Wizard Prison 2 to drive some metal in the middle of this track.

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ONE THOUSAND posts. This is from a 2005 4 track tape. By now I had a multitrack setup on a PC and was probably using Cubase or Nuendo, but I still loved my 4 track. I found this piece of sheet music all in Japanese, and read it down a few ways - a very satisfying way to spend practice time.

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A 4 track thing from 96. Little Benji was trying to use every effect I could on this ART multieffect unit, and I think there is compressor and auto-wah on the voice, in adddition to some heavy pre-tape eq-ing on all tracks. "There are too many people in the world about to lose their status, got to get it back, and lead into the next attack." These words fit my week.

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New cycle study.

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Channeling Frisell with Neil back in August. Pictured: Kevin's evil drumming shoes.

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Another idea with Neil, from our August jam times.

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