Strange Gold Music

Music and stuff

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Strange Gold, new album, available now!

It’s here - the album you have been waiting for.  http://jamesmileshq.bandcamp.com/album/strange-gold

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Mix Tape 1, by James Miles

2 track album

Released recently, a “mix tape” of rarities, alternate takes, some covers, and train wrecks.  

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This one possible album cover, for the new one.  Probably not gonna use this though.  It’s a little too sunny.

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Woah, this blog is still alive

Not sure how, but it’s still here.  There will likely be some new content soon.  How are you pandemic friends?

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One of the alltime best unknown albums.  Seriously.

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Checking In

Waaay back in 2011 I was in a mood to work on some electronic music.  What ended up was this little EP, called simply “Hotel La Rosa”.  With Lonna Kelley on vocals for 3 of the tracks.  http://hotellarosa.bandcamp.com/

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The Slowness of Everything

I know I haven't been too active lately here.  Not a lot has been happening that is post worthy.  But music is being made, even if it is at a snails pace.  Happy 2015!  (whatever that means, I mean - let's wait until  the danged year is over to declare it happy)  In the meantime, until next time, enjoy this photo of Charlie Watts.

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New Track out now, My Soul Is A River

from the album Apparitions and Rust

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Old Man, Young Man, by James Miles

I have been working on some solo tracks.  This is the first released track, Old Man, Young Man - with some fabulous drumming by John O'Reilly, Jr.  Enjoy.

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By Robert Crumb.

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New stuff and not new stuff

There has been new recording going on, hopefully that will result in some type of album eventually.  Though, these days, I'm not sure creating an "album" matters since everything is instantaneous.  So I believe I will release things as "singles" until they add up to an album.  Finish date?  Possibly 7 years or so at this rate!  In any case, stay tuned vast abyss of indifferent interwebz.  :)  And drink some coffee.  In the meantime - here is the bandcamp page I'm slowly getting fancied up. 

http://jamesmileshq.bandcamp.com/

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A song from days of olde

Wrote this in Wormwood Brothers - has a country folk feel to it.  http://wormwoodbrothers.wahallamusic.com/track/just-like-john-lennon-said

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With any luck I will have completed and perhaps produced one new song this year!  New album coming slowly.  I connected with a truly awesome drummer who does tracks online - you see his hat in the photo?  More news for the abyss to digest coming soon.  Stay tuned.

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Seven of Swords

9 track album

It's available on the webz for free even. 

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Playing some guitar with Rum Tenor at Living Head party - Phoenix.  Pretty sure this was Neil Young's Cowgirl In The Sand.

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A Seven of Swords Review

An old review of my Seven of Swords album:

‘Listen Up’ – Phoenix New Times, June 3 – 9, 2004.  Serene Dominic

    Recently, Jim Miles left the Heartgraves, and the time alone has made his songwriting several shades darker, freeing him up to explore strange English folk chords that probably haven’t been used since Jimmy Page’s pact with the devil still had a few years to run.  He even chased down the Elliott Smith estate for permission to record an unreleased song, “Hangin’ Out With Me,” which turns out to be the most chipper entry on Miles’ second solo album, Seven of Swords.  It’s a quiet, brooding batch of compositions, with Miles’ voice carrying a cross between Smith’s interpersonal torture and Jon Brion’s pretty-boy harmonies.

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Soul To Keep, by James Miles

10 track album

Get thee hence to this link to download Soul To Keep