This is a previously-unreleased track from 1985.
The artwork features my cat, Timmy, with his claw caught in a curtain. After I shot the photo with my phone, I extricated him. He escaped [f]unharmed.
My brother, John, purchased a used ARP Solus in the early 80s. I borrowed it, and played in on the first two Funharm cassettes. I have over two dozen additional unedited tapes of me abusing the thing.
When I moved from LA to Sacramento in 1984, I relinquished the Solus, and I’ve missed it since.
Last month I saw a fully refurbished Solus on Reverb for $1200 plus shipping. I looked at the listing, longed after the lost Solus, and went about my day.
A week later the price was dropped to $1000.
I thought about it for about 10 seconds, then bought it.
It’s in great shape. The top octave on the keyboard is a bit wonky, but the more I play it, the more it loosens up.
It’s good to have a Solus in the house again.
More soon.
I uploaded a mix of Funharm tracks to Mixcloud.
Today is Bandcamp Friday. This morning I recorded a new track, “Wilder So.” This afternoon and evening I worked on a video to accompany it. This is the result.
The track can be streamed and downloaded/purchased on Bandcamp.
Thanks for your support, and thank you for listening.
Special thanks to Kate Burkart and Ruth and Glenn Garland. And this track would not have been possible without the assistance of Dan Phillips.
K. Leimer’s Found Objects is being released on his Palace of Lights label next week. He asked me to provide video to accompany the track “Murmuration.” This is the result.
In March of 2021, I spent two days at Mono Lake. On my first afternoon there, lenticular clouds were forming to the east, over the Nevada line, spinning, moving, then evaporating. I shot this video as dusk descended, and sped it up 5x. I topped the video with a track from 1988 entitled “What Month Is It?”
You can buy the song from Bandcamp — and today, April 2, Bandcamp is waiving its portion of sales, meaning artists make more money from their music.
I’ve admired the Palace of Lights label since I first heard Kerry Leimer’s “Closed System Potentials” in 1980.
Last month I was flattered to be asked by the label to provide video content for two new releases.
This is the first.
This is a new 19-minute track accompanied by a video I shot in December 2019.
There’s a shorter version of the track that’s currently a pay-what-you-want item on Bandcamp. Price will be raised to US$1 on or shortly after January 1, 2021.
Here’s hoping for a vastly improved 2021.
Thanks for listening.
In early December, I spent a week at my favorite place, Mono Lake.
The weather, for 7700 feet high-desert elevation at the eastern foot of the Sierra, in early December, was disturbingly mild. I was hoping for cloudy days and some snow, but there was none of the latter and little of the former. I did a lot of reading, writing, taking photos and videos, offroading in my truck, some volunteer work, and relaxing (somewhat).
I also spent some time working with the Korg wavestate, tweaking programs, recording, and tracking and processing some existing stuff.
Now for sale on Bandcamp — “What Month Is It?”, a track recorded on cassette in 1988 in a frumpy ground-floor townhouse rental in Davis, CA. I think this might’ve been one of the few things I worked on that didn’t cause the upstairs neighbors to bang on the floor.