the Gift Machine

all things past present and future : gift machine

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#knwyrown #thebusiness

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New video, new album dropping very soon! New website also, at www.gift-machine.com #thegiftmachine #newjams #weirdshiz

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I feel like I’m in Japan a sleuth about to crash the glass on some important case investigating nightmares and turns of phrase. “Your voice is distinct” she mentions then moans into her top hat I left that place sixty minutes ago long red ringlets and a cigarette curl “This is my holocaust”, she says as she types out the words with her knuckles on the granite countertop

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Highlights from a Northwest Gift Machine tour in 2009.  House show with Your Heart Breaks and Low Hums, Live on air at KEXP for Audioasis, Andersons General Store, and a show in Bellingham.

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This was the first live line up of the gift machine. Phil Elverum, Dave Matthies, Nate Ashley and Karl Blau, clockwise. Microphones, Karl Blau, Nate Ashley, the gift machine West Coast tour 1999. All the boys piled in a 1969 Chevy Bel Air and functioned as each others bands on a two week tour covering the west coast, Las Vegas, and Salt Lake City.

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Home ..... <3  (Public Service reminder: "Please do not litter the Valley")

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The Gift Machine at Rarefied Recording

Deep thoughts. New record being recorded.

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Does Dr. John ride a Gris Sea? It's getting greasy. Karl Blau, Red Pony Clock and Heatwarmer in LA at Ham and Eggs.

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New record coming soon!

unscriptedphotos's photo on Instagram. We are getting close on the new record! Sounds smokin!

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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...

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Dave and Andrea at Craftlab Art Gallery November 9th, 2013