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@karlblau-blog
SPRING 2015: PROCEEDS OF BANDCAMP ONLINE SALES ARE DONATED to the ANACORTES MUSIC CHANNEL. Karl Blau isn't touring, not playing many shows, but hosting a lot of music in Anacortes, Washington at Anacortes Music Channel. A space downtown Anacortes for art, music and community to happen in no particular order.
New record from Karl Blau, basics of which were created in trade with LAKE for production of LAKE's Circular Doorway (Funkytonk Records):
http://laketheband.bandcamp.com/album/circular-doorway-2
The concept involved spending 3 days creating soundscapes with the musicians on an ancient Ampex vacuum-tube 3-track recorder; then several months of speaking-in-tongues over those, then 6 months to create lyrics for those melodic ideas and mostly light overdubs at ramshackle studios in Anacortes, WA, Vista, CA and San Diego, CA.
Time lapse of recording process of Maherican Dream at Dub Narcotic Studio in Olympia, WA in January of 2012.
Karl Blau is giving away his lyrics. He invites fellow musicians and artists to use his work however they'd like.
Year of Fortune
Starting this first day of March 2014 - the actual first day of the year, I'll be posting one randomly generated song from my list of 365 original solo recordings. These will be tweeted @KarlBlau daily. One may engage with the project as one wishes, perhaps there could be a fortune-telling aspect if you are open-minded enough for such activity. The first tweeted song is (how appropriate!) my cover of Bret Lunsford's song "What's Not To Fall In Love With" http://klaps.bandcamp.com/track/whats-not-to-fall-in-love-with
From PHALLUS comes CHALICE
West Coast Chalice by West Coast Chalice
WEST COAST CHALICE is myself, Karl Blau, plus my neighbor and friend Braydn Krueger (The Lonely Forest). We learned this set of songs in a grunge fashion. It features songs of women from the west coast of the U.S., all of whom are artists that have influenced my art - songs of Kanako Pooknyw, Lois Maffeo, Ashley Eriksson, Laura Veirs, Khaela Maricich, Becky Stark, Johanna Kunin, Jean Smith, Katy Davidson, Mirah Zeitlyn, and featuring a bonus track if you buy this digital version of a song by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs of Bouquet and The Finches.
Spanning almost 20 years and now with 26 solo albums totaling over 300 songs, people may now check out the fullest catalog yet of Blau's solo albums, stream them for free and take any or all home to headphones.
It's on! check out this back catalog of my songs, they're ready and ripe for the pickin'. You'll find a bunch of instrumental albums (Remember Tomorrow, Dunkel Blau, Stereoearrings, Trunkal Howl), some electronic music (Dubble Dooty Booty, Dance Positive), and lots of eclectic stuff from the early 90s into the present. Please enjoy!
SANDCASTLE SECTION
28th of June 2013 news of the moment Hello Folks, Here at the office of KLAPS, computer named Erica, the transition between office and family begins to commence. I'm thinking about the show that just happened in Bellingham. Played the Cabin Tavern the other night with Ruby Pins from the San Francisco Bay. My band Lovers Without Borders performed and I thought we did alright. I felt more comfortable as a performer than I have in a long time. The atmosphere of the Cabin leaves you pretty at ease, thanks CT. Ruby Pins kept an uptempo pace delivering mercilessly thumping bass-lines and precision pop guitar deliveries through the tiniest/loudest amplifier. Drums - strangely in the pocket yet aggressive, and fronted by seemingly unimpressed yet persistent with heavy lava flow distorted vibes of fronting singer, guitarist, and song writer of Ruby Pins, Lilian Maring. I had just performed, so it was hard for me to be present. I forgot my square breaths. But their set made a time-released impression. Great band. Temporary band? The members are from bands Bay Area bands Soft Shells, Grass Widow, Tits, and did I hear (Jen Weisberg) the bassist say something about "Hits?" The West Cost Chalice album is finished and for sale at the Business in Anacortes and very soon from my website. And if you're a KLAPS subscriber it should be in your mailbox momentarily. (and remember to let me know when you've moved, this project is taking a coon's age - but it's happening!) Streamingly, dreamingly, teamingly, mimingly, chimingly, limingly, Karl
P.S. I took some pretty decent recordings of those shows, so check my Blaug at the link below in the coming months for samples of the show if you're curious.
http://www.kelplunacy.com/blaug.html
What have I been up to? Thanks for asking... a bit of travel in the late Winter/early Spring and consequently a lot of family time now that I've been home. The sunshine has been spectacular.
December 9th 2011 6:30-6:45pm - The event was called Winter Wonderland held at Washington Park campground at the NW corner of Fidalgo Island over the weekend. According to one of the festivities planners Jonn Lunsford Friday night would be the night of coordinated musical encounters and Saturday more like an open hang-out.
We were hanging out, we had our own blazing fire pit to play around, a mild evening. The quartet of horns that performed these four pieces -- Amadeo Vecchione sliding trombone, Mason Delutri huffing and puffing the tuba, and Chris Bartlet and myself honking alto saxophones. Mount Eerie warming up along the next campfire(28 minute forest zone recording here on my blaug).
The song here has been manipulated inspired by necessity. This tumblr format only lets one song be posted a day, so that prompted me to try and put the four songs back to back so you could hear the entire performance. So I loaded the songs into the freeware audio program a.k.a. Audacity which put them actually on top of one another so when I listened it sounded something like this. But then I move the two shorter songs to end with the other two of equal length so they all would end together and that way they enter layered and somewhat more musically. Then a little panning and voi la!
Round-The-World Song Relay Celebration: for the 24 hours of September 30th 2011 people from all over the world covered a song of mine via an mp3 or video link or they just performed the song out into the world without recording it at all. This was in celebration for the last day of the Kickstarter fundraiser for KLAPS -- my auto-biographical music label.
If you click on the picture here, it should take you to the schedule, the tags to the left are the people involved in the music and video.
Thank you everyone for contributing and putting out the word, making this fundraiser such a success. I'm focusing on 12 new albums to be released on KLAPS here in the coming year.
Thanks Geneviève!