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Studio Journal

Check out my exhaustive/exhausting Studio Journal from the Hello, Old Cloud sessions at Studio Litho and Chroma Sound in late 2006/early 2007. Herein you’ll find all of the details you ever wanted about the making of our first album as a real band: wicked gear lists, special guests, hairbrained ideas made reality, and best of all, inter-band drama a la that terrible Metallica movie. Only we couldn’t afford a shrink, so we had to settle our arguments with fisticuffs. Bring it, Porter!

BONUS! Exclusive mp3s (and more!)

Keep your eye on this section of the site, as it will likely be updated with more exclusive mp3s (and/or videos) of new demos, live recordings, and never-to-be-released tracks when time permits and inspiration hits.

NEW! - Venus (live at the Tractor Tavern, 6/26/08)
A YouTube video of our version of Television’s Marquee Moon classic, recorded live at Seattle’s Tractor Tavern on June 26.

Philistine (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Blessed Are (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Deseret News (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)
Kissing Cousin (live at the Crocodile Café, 9/25/07)

Here we have four new live recordings from our September 25 show at the Crocodile Café, including a not-too-shabby version of brand-new tune “Deseret News”. All sounds captured by legendary Croc soundman Jim Anderson. Thanks, Jim!

Diana
This song was birthed way back in 2004 (could’ve been 2003, even). It started life as a really crappy four-track recording with a really great keyboard sound (as close as a Casio gets to a Mellotron). The basic tracks were then re-recorded thusly, in the basement of Jeff & Sharon Lujin in Independence, MO, in the summer of 2004. Soon after, recording continued in my apartment’s spare bedroom, and then Steve Turner’s living room. The song was then mysteriously abandoned, while Christian and I packed up and moved to Seattle. It was untouched for the entirety of 2005.

I recorded the vocals and fuzz bass in April 2006. Everything else was recorded in 2004. Jeff Lujin is on the drums.

True Currency (2006 version)
A new version of an old favorite, recorded in much the same manner as the Starboard Meets the Sound EP, for my friend Steve Turner’s upcoming short film Mere Sentience. Dig!

Jesus’ House (demo)
A real weeper…the first four-track dispatch of 2006. Strings/organ courtesy of an old Roland RS-09 (thanks, Jay!). This version appears on Volume 5 of Levi Fuller’s lovely Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly. A drastically different version appears on our forthcoming full-length, Hello, Old Cloud.