Misha's Blog
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Wow! It's been too long!
Hello! Good lord it's been a while. We've been spending our time moving apartments, countries, and jobs! Jonathan is now in Seattle, Alisha in St. Croix, and Evan in the Mid-west. Needless to say, we've been re-organizing! But that doesn't mean that we've stopped doing the writing!
As I write, the remastered Beatles are coming out of the speakers, we got the coffee, and it's sunny in the room. We've got the telecaster, the keyboard, and it's go go go!
We have some new titles for the songs as well for our new album, not sure what the title is yet, but the working song titles include: Nightshades, This is how it must begin, Boiling Tea Building Roads, and We're Gonna Have It Out.
More soon!!!!!
J
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Thanksgibbons
Current mood:
So we are in dire need of a new redesign! And updates! And they will be forthcoming, but for now, we just want to write and say hello. We hope everyone is doing ok, especially those with loved ones in Mumbai. And for those in the States, have a happy Thanksgiving--hang in there in these rocky times! Be good to each other. :) More to come! And yes, we have new songs coming soon--but for now, we are listening to lots of Hugo Wolf. And Andy Gibbs! And having lots and lots of food.
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The algorithm resolves to us
We were in Texas last night and went into a formerly independent bookstore called Bookstop, once a 50's movie theater, now gutted internally and replaced with a Borders 'n Nobles. But that's not really why we mention it. We mention it because, it still smells the same, the soul of the art-deco neon, the stairs, the little stool step ladders, all the hours we spent haunting the sci-fi section with the patchouli wearing Goth. And the books! The books are still the same--granted, there seem to be more the sequels and less weird self-published nonsense, and the nonfiction section is ever dwindling, but still--you can find such fine words strung together... Like Amy Bloom's "A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You" and Alan Dean Foster's "Light Years Beneath My Feet." Or Terry Pratchett's "Thud!"! ! !
Anyhoo, we'll be back with more soon. Still recording. We managed to upgrade our macbook pro's harddrive, but, alas, somehow managed to dent the keyboard from the inside. There are, like, 10,000 screws to this thing! WTF!
And as far as what we've been listening to, lots and lots of Fleetwood Mac, the best of Pink Floyd, and we found our favourite version of Saint Saens' Organ Symphony with Matthias Eisenberg. And for new stuff, go Sam Phillips!
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Things we things we
Ah, summer is busy! Look for Ash in a couple of ads coming up! And looks for us in fried chicken houses across America. From Dinastia China to Bon Chon, we love our fried chicken. Ahem. Anyhoo, this time, instead of mentioning other stuff we like from our collection, we'll talk about some stuff we're looking forward to, and maybe some stuff we're listening to right now.
Sam Phillips - Don't Do Anything - we have the BIGGEST crush on Sam, nee Leslie, Phillips. She of the nasal deadpan heartbreak. And this is her first non-T-Bone-Burnett produced album, but it's going to be so cool. The few songs we've heard are absolutely brilliant and offkilterly Tom Waits on cognac. We can't wait.
Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of the Soul - So we're totally torn. On the one hand, Ron Sexsmith is genius and every album is like a masterclass in pop songwriting. On the other hand, another album with Martin Terefe, is like a little too much of a good thing. Martin's as clever as Froom/Blake, and a bit more refined than Steve Earle was, but he's also a tight-compression-beat-thing dude, and that's just so different for those of us who were weaned on Other Songs.
We've also been listening the heck out of the few songs on the new My Morning Jacket, passed to us through the great musical friend network. Evil Urges is amazingly brave, at least the bits we've heard, and we're thrilled to hear the modernity breaking through, and the crew's stepping off into new language. You hear a lot more of the shameless love of melody and pop in the new album. We can't wait to hear the rest.
Also, we've been spinning the new Ladytron, "Ghosts" is amazing! Plus we love both leading Ladytrons. So petulant, dark, and cute. And The Kills - Last Days of Magic, and the Raveonettes, whose new one we don't quite get as much as their last, but still, always, so fatalistically romantic.
Speaking of romantic and modern, we've also been listening a lot to Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. Prokofiev is just so great in terms of sound palette and melody. We've been watching that animated short too, Peter and the Wolf--letting it all soak into our new recordings.
So we have some new working titles for our songs. Words like nightshade. Lots more gut-strings than before.
More soon!
cheerios!
Misha
Yo J,
I hope you don't mind all the crickets on the background of the tracks I send you. The guy at the music store says to spray the house with Raid, but I would never.