swarbles.

the elephant 6 townhall put together a tribute album to bill doss, featuring covers of bill-centric songs from the sunshine fix, the olivia tremor control, and the apples in stereo.

my friend, zombie girlfriend hospital attack force, was looking for additional vocals for his track, so i contributed to his cover of the sunshine fix’s “hide in the light” (track four), and i also submitted my own cover of the olivia tremor control’s “no growing (exegesis)” (track eleven).

the whole release is really beautiful (and sad).

you don’t?  well, apparently, it happened!  a week ago.  but if you missed it, that’s okay (i missed it too, and only found it because i google swarbles often), because you can listen to it online.

“as you were” starts around 36:55.  the dj even says swarbles afterwards, and it sounds ridiculous in the greatest way anything has ever sound ridiculous.  it’s funny because i never say swarbles out loud, and to hear somebody else say it is so bizarre.

the other show i posted about, the waiting room, is actually in syndication and is being rebroadcast many times throughout the week on many different internet radio websites and at various times (and i believe it will be uploaded to their site towards the end of the week/weekend?  maybe?  we’ll see).  broadcast schedule can be found here.

listening party tomorrow evening at six pm.  if you can make it to my house, you are more than welcome to eat fruit and freak out with me.  my room’s a bit messy, but that’s okay.  it’s okay.  i know that “when the black rook comes around” is the eleventh song in the show, but i have no idea at what point in time you should start listening.  maybe i’ll try to post here about it when it’s getting close (i have the playlist and will be following along, ha).

this has been the weirdest, most surreal, wonderful thing.  i’ve been making a lot of strange sounds because i don’t understand what is happening and it makes my head hurt a lot in that way that happens when i’m around anybody i’m in love with.  oh gosh.

thanks to both the pipeline! and the waiting room for making me freak out a lot (in the nicest way)!

(relatedly, i should probably start writing and recording again….)

the internet is a strange boat.

thanks, skogsgospel!

i’m really excited about this!  at first, i thought it was an aggregator site, but it’s actually hand picked albums and eps that are available as free downloads, and that makes me really happy!

so thanks, dedicated ears free album list!

since cllct appears to have died, i uploaded all of my elephant 6 townhall hoursongs thus far (with the exception of superstition, which you can message me about if you really want it, but it’s not very good, and you’re not missing much) to bandcamp.  this is convenient, i think, since you can download all of the songs in one fell swoop.  and you can download them in wicked audiophillic quality formats.  audiophillic is not a word, but it should be.  audiophile friendly.

also i’ve been considering having an option where one can purchase the songs on a cd-r and make a really nice handmade set of liner notes for something like $8, but i want to do a mock up first to see how long it would take (because in my mind, i picture this taking forever to actually do, and i’m not sure that people [myself included] care enough about hoursongs to want a really nicely hand made set of liner notes.  i am definitely doing it whenever i release my first official “album” or whatever it will wind up being, but it seems pretty labor intensive for a slew of songs written and recorded in an hour).

but anyway, is that something people would be interested in?  maybe?