populist records
I’m excited to announce that I’ve just started a record label with my friend Andrew McIntosh. It’s called populist records and we are focused on putting out new and interesting music from our west coast community and beyond. Our first album comes out on Jan. 17th, 2012; Nicholas Deyoe’s with throbbing eyes which features performances from the Formalist Quartet, Red Fish Blue Fish, Stephanie Aston and Brendan Nguyen. Our second release will come out in March and will feature the music of composer Tom Johnson performed by Andrew McIntosh. Hooray for new music!
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Top Albums of 2011
Here are my top albums of the year (in no particular order)
Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
James Blake - James Blake
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Wilco - The Whole Love
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Top singles of 2011 coming soon.
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Here’s the first performance of my string quartet, hope and optimism never got me anywhere, performed a few weeks ago by the formalist quartet at Beyond Baroque.
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wild Up live at Beyond Baroque
Here’s my arrangement of the Misfits “Where Eagles Dare” with the awesome Maggie Hasspacher on vocals.
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Out West Arts Review
The wild Up shows were also reviewed by Out West Arts. Find it here: Cover Band
Los Angeles Times Review
This weekend I played two awesome shows with wild Up at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA. The Los Angeles Times gave us a pretty awesome review. Here it is:
Music review: wild Up merrily mashes Modernism with punk
The Museum of Rapture Douglas Coupland (one of my favorite writers/artists) has a new art project. It’s a little bit weird.
Performance of George Antheil’s Ballet Mécanique. Oct. 22nd 2011, CalArts, Wild Beast.
Audio of the concert coming soon~
SAT. OCTOBER 22ND, 7:00PM - Ballet Mécanique
This coming Saturday, I will be conducting a performance of George Antheil’s awesome Ballet Mécanique. The performance will be held in the Wild Beast at CalArts and is free to the public (although I think you might have to reserve tickets ahead of time). Also on the program is Stravinsky’s Les Noces and some Morton Feldman. Also, there will be food trucks. More info can be found at the link above.
I found this awesome blog today that has a ton of covers of “When You Wish Upon a Star,” which I personally find to be one of the best songs ever written…seriously, it’s amazing! I’m particularly fond of the Little Anthony version and the Yasuharu Konishi & Pizzicato Five version. As an added bonus, here a link to Pizzicato Five covering “Part of Your World” from the Little Mermaid.
