Fin's Journey

Hey all,

I came up with a song today called "Lifting the Spirit of Fin." I have a concept of a boy named Fin and his thoughts so I am writing music based on this...more details to come on Fin in the next few days. For now enjoy!


DOWNLOAD. Lifting the Spirit of Fin.


-s

THE FLYING CLUB CUP

i really like the music this guy has been creating, it's simply amazing and much respect I give to him...his music makes me smile when I listen. it's just great. this is something where the whole band played in different parts of Brooklyn I think and some random vids of there stuff.

love

-s

IMPROVISATION PART 3!!!

Hey all!

I am very exited to put forth a new EP called Improvisation Part 3. Two weeks ago I put out a EP on our blog called "While eating breakfast stoned..." in that EP there was three sections of improvisation but the one that stuck out was the last one (Improvisation Section 3) to me, so I continued to play with it and eventually came up with Improvisation Section 3 Part 2. This particular song had a really simplistic piano part that essentially served as a skeleton for our live version of the song. Tony and Shawn both loved the track and at our show in West Chester we jammed on it and great things happened but to make it even better Tony decided to take the song and make his own version, so basically I decided to take all three versions and create an EP called 3 Types.

I know that we have been tossing a lot of music in everyone faces but soon I shall compile what we have thus far and give a big download update, also look out for the audio from out west chester show and cds at shows!

SO,
DOWNLOAD BELOW
3 TYPES EP

Improvisation Part 3 Section 2

Improvisation Part 3 Section 2 (Tony's Version)

Improvisation Part 3 Section 2 (Live Version)-Coming soon!

night course

tonight I came to the technology center at my school due to the fact that i had a paper due the next day, while working I kept humming a tune in my head and coming up with string arrangements in my skull as well. so I decided to see what I could do with the thought and the song "night course" is what came of all that. I am going to add vocals and all that jazz later but for now I am just posting the unfinished product, as with all the other songs I post up here..but please feel free to download them as much as you can. I will posting updates on this song as time rolls by, also "improvisation part 3 section 2" was created into an actual song that we played at the show in west chester. I can't wait to record the whole thing with the band and let you all here it, it's def a way different take on the one that we have up on myspace.

download. night course.

-s

warm springs of daylight feeling

on friday we played a show at some skate park in west chester. There weren't a lot of people but we played well and messed around with some ideas live that turned into good things. I recorded a lot of it and amanda took some photos so we should have all that up. I also recorded the audio of our trip there and what not. I may add some shit to it then post it. I like to record journeys and conversation, it gives some sort of insight to how humans interact.

besides that i made a track a little while ago that was a somewhat cont, of the improvisation 3.

DOWNLOAD. iMPROVISATIOn 3 pARt 2

oh and I've been making a wish list of sorts for things that I want in the near future,

-sol

While eating breakfast stoned and listening to demonlover ost, I decided to go to a room (the community room) in the basement of my apartment.........

and mess around with the keys because the community room has great echo and odd noises EP.

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TRACKS:

1. On Route to...

2. Testing out the keys in the room

3. improv section 1

4. improv section 2

5. checking out the room

6. improv section 3

7. leaving

Ramble!

I remember when I about 15 or 16 a friend of mine invited me over to his place to listen to a record called by someone called Sun-Ra, the album I can recall... I believe is.... called when sun comes out. it was the first thing that showed me where music could be taken and the experiments one could do with sound in the most extreme sense. Directly after a few plays of that album, he put on the Radiohead song  Airbag and it made me want to vomit, that is how much emotionally and mentally the sound vibrated all over my body. That day I went home and looked up everything about the band and all of their influences...then tried to listen to all of it. That week onto the following years, hip-hop got a backseat to anything experimental in terms of jazz, rock, classical and whatever.  So for that I thank Radiohead and Sun-Ra. Thus the reason I feel in my soul that experimenting with music is highly important, pushing the limits is important, trying something different is important because it gives you new insight into your life. If I chose that day to not listen to anything that day because I loved hip-hop so much then I may have missed a world of music. I'm ranting but my point is never to get comfortable with one way of listening, playing, or experience sound. I think that is what Radiohead as done to a certain extent and for that I thank them. so thats what i will try to do....Wether people are hearing it or not, it does not matter as long as I am contributing to the ongoing progression of music in some way.

my grammar is horrible.

-solomon

RADIOHEAD

on NPR they are streaming two amazing things.

1. Radiohead's show at the Santa Barbara Bowl
2. Johnny Greenwood's Popcorn

please check it out because it brought me to tears, this band just does it for me time after time not matter what. They create entire little worlds inside each song, their entire body of music is nothing short of amazing in every aspect from the songwriting to the amazing sound scapes they create. Radiohead is simply just a great band.

The Abstract

alright since I was a kid hip-hop was the foundation that I built upon with music. It started when I heard a Nas song called "N.Y State of Mind." Ever since then I loved hip-hop and respected it for long time, it brought me to the likes of early common (like water for chocolate), Jay-z(reasonable doubt and blueprint), mos def(black on both sides), the roots (the tipping point) and last but not least fucking tribe called quest. To me they were everything that hip-hop was about but took it further by experimenting with jazz and blending it to make some crazy beats. It was about the tribe for me cause I def was not a wu-tang kid by no means. hahahah, anyways...Q-tip from Tribe Called Quest is coming out with a new album called the The Renaissance and I heard some tracks today that were amazing...so take a listen.

Q-TIP'S NEW SONG, THE FEVA

oh yeah!

CRYSTAL ANTLERS!

FUCK YES!

Ambient in Progress EP, new song

Ambient in Progress EP is something that I've been working on, for quite some time now I've been really in love with ambient music and more particularly the works of Brian Eno and Aphex Twin. So with that love I've come up with some of my own works that deal with my thoughts at any particular moment. Early I mentioned thoughts of a film about Mountains and what not and I figured that some of these tracks may part of the soundtrack. Who knows when a film is going to come out but it's a work in progress.

so download away....

DOWNLOAD. finding a place to think during a rainstorm
DOWNLOAD. walking by vessels, feeling the presence

would you go?

so I've been tinkering with ideas in my head for the past couple of months for some sort of long improvised session with other musicians in Philadelphia. I've come up with the idea of "The Meeting" but that fell through and frankly not a lot of people showed interest in it at all. It's quite odd to me that people do not want to come together and play music, maybe it's Philadelphia or maybe I don't have enough musical cred to try to pull something like this off...who knows. Anyway....I've come up with a new idea that may work. I am going to set up a improvised session at a local venue instead of a house or etc...that way bands will want to do it I think...again who knows. The sessions will start off with one band or person playing some sort of sound and from there all other players will join in and add their layers of sound until a sound collage is produced. The audience will be advised to sit down on the ground or lay down. I am going to email some people to try to get this thing moving and we shall see what happens but if you do not hear me speak of this again then just assume that I tried but no one really gave a fuck.


oh yeah and APOLLO SUNSHINE CAME OUT WITH A NEW RECORD CALLED SHALL NOISE UPON GO LISTEN!

WWW.MYSPACE.COM/APOLLOSUNSHINE

-Solomon

PLANTS AND ANIMALS!

GOOD STUFF FROM CANADA!

FAERIE DANCE

Early Morning Thoughts EP, another song

across from the place I live where the rich stare you down and the noise complaints run rampant, we all decided to walk across the street to a large patch of grass and dirt that lay under two big trees and play music. this is a little bit of the sound we made that yesterday.

DOWNLOAD. finding a shade, to sit down and play on a hot day

Ambient in Progress EP

ambient in progress will be a another ep of ambient workings from people within this band.
here is the first track,



DOWNLOAD. walking by vessels, feeling the presence


bye.

20 YEARS OF SONIC YOUTH

PART 1

Part 2

part3

part4

part5

part6


NOW STOP BEING PRETENTIOUS AND MAKE SOUND!

self notes

first off. i suggest everyone go and check out arthur-mag . I really respect this magazine.

www.arthurmag.com

secondly,



then there is,



and


also i took a trip on some lsd and had some eye opening thoughts, well musically speaking.


AND SUN RA!