March 26, 2008
At present, Inlets has half an album. Though progress is slow, it is measurable
and something should be finished not far into summer. I'm currently reviewing
label options -though nothing is settled- and I hope to have something commercially
available in the fall. I am sorry they can't all be free. The album will include special help from special friends.
Speaking of which, a release date has been set for My Brightest Diamond's new album. I lent some woodwind help, and moral support.
Speaking more of which, Department of Eagles has birthed a new website featuring neat illustrations and tangential ramblings. They are close to finished with their album.
Speaking further of which, Inlets will begin playing live again in early summer-
even if Angel is on tour with Dirty Projectors until the end of forever. We'll figure out a way.
Speaking of tangential rambling, I came across this site while doing some amateur research on the Krakatoa eruption. It's pretty incredible: the cataloguing of minute details and exchanges at high school shows, of notes from enamored fans and lovers, the set lists. Make fun of it for second, but I dare you not to be impressed with its earnestness. If this were all Inlets is to become, then I would only hope to be as thorough and religious about it.
January 7, 2008
After completing my EP a bit over a year ago, I've been trying to discover what to say next. Trapping information, and being capable of thinking the notion of worth into a fairly frictionless circle, 2007 left me short on the new album.
For some reason I was able the other day to write and track what will probably be the closing piece on the new album while inspired by the picture below. My friend Erik arranged and shot it on his way home in August. I won't tell you why it worked for me, except to say that sometimes we like things, and explaining is less interesting than looking.
In other news, my consistently generous friends at blogotheque.net have included the EP in a best of '07 list, despite that Vestibule came out Thanksgiving of '06. They are that generous.
In posting about Vestibule, they included a scruffy cover I did of one of my favorite songs in recent memory, Department of Eagles "Deadly Disclosure." Appropriately I recorded the cover while the nerves in my arm were seething with fury, ravaged by the stress-enduced shingles virus. I was home from work, sick with big life-questions. I was high on vicodin, and my arm felt like fire.
While this sounds like a Cormac McCarthy novel, it was instead a gift to my friend Fred of Department of Eagles for his birthday (per his encouragement).
Since it may be few moments until Inlets releases something formally, I may as well share this virus with you. To listen, click on the picture of Daniel Rossen, face down in the carpet with sitar.
December 29, 2007
In November I again recorded winds for the new My Brightest Diamond Album. As part of a video series on the album's construction, we toured the locale.
November 5, 2007
I helped Feist play 1234 on Saturday Night Live.
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Also, one of my favorite bands and comrades, the Department of Eagles, has just participated in a new Blogotheque take-away-show. this is humbling:
watch it and consider quitting music. i am.
August 12, 2007
thank all over at blogotheque.net for hosting their first amazing Soiree a Emporter. inlets had the fortune to get help in its set from ben lanz, sparrowhouse, and jeremy warmsley. and the night climaxed with zach condon of beirut, the kocani orkestar, and sebastien schuller. it was a rowdy and often sloppily enjoyable evening. cheers to new friends and sweaty shirts.
www.blogotheque.net
www.takeawayshows.com
also, another new my brightest diamond track came out, on which i appear
and if you haven't already done so, check out stereogum's tribute to radiohead's ok computer. i'm also on this my brightest diamond track.
