chilling, recording, preparing

since i have the day all to myself, i decided to write some random thoughts that i've been having.
1. a couple of us have been looking into the permaculture/urban homestead thing.
2. i'm hiring a piano tuner to work on the family piano which i grew up on learning to play.
since a lot of my style was influenced by playing on the piano in the living room. we decided recording in my living room might be an interesting way to cover some of my parts.
3. its a very nice day. i'm taking a walk.
4. started recording my dreams. maybe i'll be able to sort something out of my subconsious in a few months or years.
5. just ate a reuben.
6. practicing in a couple hours. at the house.

Yucca Tap Room Overload

No, that is not the name of a new local cover band. But, that is how it felt Saturday night at the Yucca Lounge. We played avec mon frere Neba who played a sweet set right before we went on. Then Dry River Yacht Club delivered their best performance I've seen yet. Maybe the venue adds something to local performances. I'm not sure, but for anyone that hasn't been to a Yucca show, the place is just large enough to accomodate a goodly sized crowd, and small enough to allow our music to consume every square foot. As for our set, the vocals felt crisp from on stage, and the new position of the stage, (they flipped the floorplan of the entire venue!) allowed the sound to carry well. I noticed that it also feels much more comfortable trying to get from the front door to the bar since the stage had flipped. (See the clever diagram I crafted below in paint!)

So, for those of you that were able to make it, I hope you enjoyed the experience as much as we did. We still have some copies of the Pray for Pills demo that we made. So message us if you would like a copy.

1luv,

ryan

High Quality footage of our Flagstaff set + Upcoming Show at Yucca

So the show in Flagstaff went well..
That is if you didn't get the boot due to the curfew at midnight. For those of you that had to stand from the door to hear us, we extend another apology, and can assure you that we are already planning another show for the city of Flagstaff, since we practically consider it our second home.
As a small treat, if you haven't seen it yet, our friend from flagstaff, mike -aka "inertlife"- filmed the show in HD (high def, sweet!) and the audio came out pretty well. He has posted up each segment of our set along with our fellow band Caecelia's set.
I'll start with our show opener; a yet unnamed song that features judd on cello, thus befitting the temporary moniker "cello song"....

VIDEO BY INERTLIFE
I decided to throw another song up here for viewing/listening pleasure so for those of you that didn't make it up to flagstaff in the near 20 degree weather you can hear one of the new songs we premiered that night as well.

VIDEO BY INERTLIFE
Both of these videos represent more of the chill side that we have been exploring lately and hopefully there are many more bright sunshiny days to inspire us. Also, to all of our friends here in phoenix, we are playing saturday night at the Yucca Tap room, free show, and also the first time we have played on the new stage so things will be exciting. We might also have a few cd's with a demo of one of the new songs on it for ear candy.. So come and check us out, and check out the rest of the flagstaff show.
Ps. It's gonna be a bright, (bright!) bright, a bright sunshiny day.
1luv,
rian
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