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WHAT'S NEW?

COBIRDS UNITE
Herding a music consortium between cool waters and nourishing fields. Twenty first century bandmates make for the lushest outing yet. Barrett Martin, Barb Antonio, Margrethe Bjorklund, Rachel Flotard, Johnny Sangster, Scott Sutherland, Lisa King and Tilman Herb help to create an ethereal, natural unfolding soundscape. Here are some songs from our album - Cobirds Unite - recorded in late Spring/early Summer of 2009. Tracked at Crackle and Pop, mixed at Avast and mastered at RFI all here in Seattle Washington. Recorded and mixed by Johnny Sangster, Produced by Johnny Sangster with assistance from yours truly and mastered by Ed Brooks.

Wrecker of Hearts  (2009)
Too Early  (2009)

I've taken the other Cobirds tunes down out of respect for Spark & Shine Records, who has tentatively agreed to release the entire collection on a proper disc, sometime in 2010. Good news. Stay tuned!


           

A SAMPLING OF INTERESTS

The Gray Kid
Max Planck
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz
Albert Einstein
Richard Feynman
Howard Zinn
Noam Chomsky
Woodie Guthrie
Habitat for Humanity
Steve Albini
A Dog Milking a Goat
No Logo
Lisa King
Scott Walker
Head Heritage
Worker Rights Consortium
Terry Lee Hale
Adbusters
The Onion
Freedom From Hunger
Rhea Patton
Lifelong AIDS Alliance
The Hunger Site
Independent Media Center
Wash PIRG
Edward Tufte
Whiting Tennis
PETA
Paul Lynde Fan Club
The Doll Test
P.A.W.S.
Amnesty International
Gram Parsons
Tim Hardin
Ron Sexsmith
Fantagraphics
Fox Hollow
Booker White
Josh White
Mississippi John Hurt
Son House
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
The Elephants
The Rheas
Neko Case
Steve Turner
Girl Trouble
The Fall-Outs
Jacques Brel
Knut Hamsun
Mary Shelley
Langston Hughes
Beverly Buchanan
Milton Resnick
Terry Gilliam
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pär Lagerkvist
Karen Blixen
Django Reinhardt
Yves Montand

LIVE PERFORMANCE DATES

Due to reccuring stage fright and fluctuating musical ability, there are no foreseeable live shows. If interested, check back, as circumstances have a way of changing.

Friday 10/30 Sunset (Llama show)
Friday 10/16 Skylark
Saturday 10/10 Mars Cafe
Saturday 10/03 Hatties Hat (Reverbfest '09)
Thursday 8/27 Jewelbox Theater at The Rendezvous
Friday 8/14 The Comet Tavern
Thursday 8/13 Mars Cafe
Friday Early Show 7/17 Sunset
Friday 6/5 New Frontier Lounge
Friday 5/16 Skylark
Friday 4/11 Piecora's Back Room
Friday 4/03 Sunset
Friday 3/20 Piecora's Back Room
Friday 3/14 Slims Last Chance
Friday 2/20 Piecora's Back Room
Friday 2/13 Mars Cafe
Saturday 2/7 Fantagraphics Book Store

MAKING MUSIC OVER THE YEARS

LLAMA
(2005 - Present)
Small-scale angular middle-aged post-punk catharsis. Jim Hunnicutt, Scott Sutherland and I traverse the cold tundra between new wave and beer. Fueled by a sense of mortality, these songs seem to be distinctly saying; "NO." Below are some tunes we recorded with Johnny Sangster and Kurt Bloch between 2005 and 2007 at Chromasound Studio in Seattle. Ed Brooks, mastering engineer.

Love  (2005)
Alright  (2005)
The End  (2005)
Right Now  (2005)
New Car  (2005)
Invisible  (2005)
It's OK  (2005)
I Want to Be There  (2005)
Smokers  (2007)
Get The Car  (2007)

SOLO RECORDINGS
(1999 - Present)
So low music. This is the stuff that probably suffers most from my natural impatience and therefore exposes my weaknesses as a musician and singer. But that doesn't bother me. If it bothers you, stay away from these songs. Some of these were recorded by Kurt Bloch, but most were recorded by me at home. The super talented Anne Marie Ruljancich plays violin and cello on all of the tunes recorded by Kurt Bloch at Egg Studios in 1999.

Tracks  (2009)
Cry baby Cry  (2008)
Human  (1999)
Don't Have to Work  (2008)
Lounge  (2008)
No One  (1999)
Filament Dust  (2008)
Call a Doctor  (1999)
Interlude  (2004)
Buzz  (2009)
I US of A  (2003)

FLOP
(1990 - 1995)
"By 1992, grunge had been exported from Seattle to the department stores of America's malls, and the pop-punk buried beneath the city's fuzz pedals finally found room to shine forth. Among others (notably the long-lived, crucial Fastbacks), Flop exploded with noise-pop, sporting a mod-influenced edge, loud, sunny guitars and bittersweet underpinnings. Produced by Kurt Bloch, Flop & the Fall of the Mopsqueezer! is one of the '90s' finest debuts." - Trouser Press

Losing End  (1990)
Somehow  (1990)
Dissipate  (1990)
Fucking Thing  (1990)
Flop  (1990)
Anne  (1992)
Tomato Paste  (1992)
Entropy  (1992)
Hello  (1992)
Night Of the Hunter  (1993)
World of Today  (1994)
April Ate Our World  (1994)
Wev'e All Seen Better Days  (1994)
Eggs and Ash  (1994)
Idle Hands  (1994)
Waste of Space  (1994)
North Mason Middles School  (1994)
Vancouver Door Company  (1994)

PURE JOY
(1986 - 2003)
Although we continued to play for nearly two decades after forming, Pure Joy's relevance was at it's peak during the 1980s. A naive cast of disaffected suburban youths trying to imitate our heros, we eventually stumbled upon our own sound and were lucky enough to be in a position where we could make and release records with some semblance of regularity. The core of the band was always really Lisa King on bass, Jim Hunnicutt on drums and me on guitar and vocals. People came and went, but I'm not sure if we really maintained the certain magic we once posessed.

Ocean  (1986)
Words Conceal  (1986)
Calvin & Hobbes  (1987)
Standing on a Bridge  (1987)
Whatever I Can Grow  (1989)
Traveling is The King  (1997)
Gelatin & Bright  (2003)
Bleeding  (2003)
Deviant  (1987)
Essence  (1987)
Gun Thing  (1987)
Orphan Sky  (1987)
Red Lights Flashing  (1997)
Turmoil  (1987)
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk  (2003)

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