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Us – Songs for Us

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Us – Songs For Us
uswa.bandcamp.com

I wrote these songs in 2010 for a performance piece that I was a part of in my first class at The Evergreen State College. For an entire school year our group of 70 something students examined consciousness, myth, neuroscience, quantum mechanics, dream science and psychology, Asian wisdom traditions, and much more.

Now I have revived those compositions, originally performed live with a loop station, in properly recorded form with new spoken word provided by a good friend of mine who I originally met in that class, Noble Russell. His poetry throughout the EP is a singular narrative. His words are an artistic rendering of our studies at that time.

Instrumental version also available: uswa.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-us-instrumental

A God or an Other – Towers of Silence

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A God or an Other – Towers of Silence
agodoranother.bandcamp.com

73 minutes of black metal/post rock awesomeness. I’m really happy with how this came out and can’t wait to hold the double vinyl version in my hands.

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In other news, the studio has been seeing a lot of action since the release of SF2:TWW:ATA. The Blue is working at Big Name again, this time doing a 9 song album. We are currently finishing up tracking.

Mythologies is due in for two more songs at the beginning of June destined for a 7″ record.

Drum tracking for With the End in Mind comes shortly after that.

The final recording stage of Mike Thompson’s Yeah! That Would Be Cool! is taking place right now. We are now on to editing and mixing.

And I’ve got a project in the works with Noble Russell. It is loop based instrumentals I wrote for an Evergreen course a few years back. The tracks feature his spoken word.

Yoga Fire! – Street Fighter II: The World Warrior: A Tribute Album & More

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Ah! I forgot about the blog! It makes it look like nothing has been happening at Big Name. That is definitely not true. I’m going to quickly run through a few of the projects that have been in the works here in reverse chronological order:

Firstly, I released this solo LP yesterday, 3/12/13, under the name Yoga Fire!

It is available for free stream and download at http://yogafirewa.bandcamp.com

or at my personal audio site at jlvaudio

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In late February Big Name saw a session with the very talented Mythologies. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces that I have worked on. Really looking forward to the release of the single and also looking forward to working with them on a full length in May.

Kevin of Mythologies practicing the song before tracking began.

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Seattle’s A God or an Other has been recording a full length black metal/post rock crossover album here. It has just entered the mixing phase. This is epic music.

The band listening back to a take.

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Lastly, Thompson. No link for this one yet, as it is a debut release, but it’s an awesome full length featuring guest performances by many Olympia locals. It’s currently on hold (tracking is incomplete at the moment) until Mike moves to Olympia in the beginning of April.

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I don’t have a picture of this one, but my ancient project 55YT MQRT has been slowly reviving itself within the walls of Big Name. We played one show in the summer and I definitely felt bit by the live performance bug once again. Soon…