Feb
8th
Mon
8th
Dec
14th
Mon
14th
THE FOURTH DAY OF HOMETAPES…
DOWNLOAD:
Brad Laner “It’s Christmas (But I Don’t Care)”
Brad’s Favorite Record of 2009:
“Dirty Projectors ‘Bitte Orca’ (but reading interviews with the main dude nearly ruined it for me).”
Brad’s Favorite Movie of 2009:
“Up”
Brad’s Favorite Discovery of 2009:
“My new WiFi streaming Netflix/Youtube/blu-ray box. I’ll never leave the house again.” *
Brad’s Favorite Show of 2009 (Played or Attended):
“Pattern is Movement at the El Rey Theater here in Los Angeles.”
Brad’s Favorite Moment of 2009:
“My son starting Kindergarten at a truly amazing local charter school. ‘No child left behind’ can eat it.”
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Learn more about Brad Laner, including his landmark album Neighbor Singing, here. Hometapes will release Natural Selections, Brad’s new album, in 2010.
* Check out this LA Times article about Brad and his house, which we would also not leave. Even if it were just equipped with a Betamax and an ice chest.
Oct
2nd
Fri
2nd
Recorded spontaneously in a small studio in Thessaloniki ,northern Greece (save the live track from Nuremberg 2 weeks previous) in the fall of ‘88.
21 year old me on the drum kit.
“One of the most original bands to come out of Los Angeles during those fervent years was Savage Republic, led by guitarist Bruce Licher. Tragic Figures (1982) introduced a psychedelic and industrial music that was mostly instrumental and percussive, inducing trance and fear. The EP Trudge (1985) incorporated more explicitly elements of world-music. The atmospheric Ceremonial (1985) and Jamahiriya (1988), featuring new member Brad Laner, perfected their synthesis of psychedelic drones, middle-eastern cantillation and tribal rhythms. By the time of Customs (1989), their last album and their masterpiece, they had coined a musical language of extreme tension, instrumental subtlety and exotic appeal. “- Scaruffi
click the pic for joy
Sep
4th
Fri
4th
If you’re checking in here to find out about my new album “Natural Selections” which was announced as being released last week, I’m sorry to say that it wasn’t actually released and I have no idea at this point when it will be.
