Curious Automata will no longer be selling CDs on Amazon starting June 1st, 2021. We will have options for physical media sans that sweet Prime shipping. So if you’ve been meaning to pick up a shiny disk or two, you’d best shop this list now.
New Release: Spring Cleaning by Tim Carmichael and Vic Dillahay
Tim Carmichael and I have a new album! We decided to celebrate getting vaccinated and things starting to open up with a bit of free improvisation. We hadn’t played together since recording Graphite’s Thoughtful Departure in February of 2020 but we weren’t too rusty and the ideas still flowed. As Tim says in the liner notes “When you listen to this album imagine yourself getting together with a friend over a cup of coffee to catch up and enjoy the stories of your life’s journey. And, ideally, you will enjoy listening to this album with a great friend.”
Check it out at Bandcamp, on CD, or the music service of your choice!
“Improrealization” at All About Jazz
Graphite Addiction’s “Improrealization” is the Track of the Day at All About Jazz!
Tia Tempero – “Speedway” at Erie Idol
Tia Tempero (who studies with me at Guitars, Etc) killing it at Erie Idol. The song is her original, “Speedway”.
New Release: Thoughtful Departure by Graphite Addiction
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Thoughtful Departure at Curious Automata
Graphite has a new album! On February 15th, 2020 we went into the studio to finish recording last year’s Grateful Destination. At the end of that session, we played this improvisation. It’s the last 45 minutes of the last time we were able to play together before COVID shut everything down. It’s also the last recording made at Aspen Street, since Pete has since retired to the greener fields of Michigan.
Check it out on the music service of your choosing and enjoy grooving with us one more time!
Fender Mustang GT40 Signal Cut Fix
I love my Fender Mustang GT40 except for its odd habit of sometimes acting like a noise gate in reverse, cutting my playing and turning up noise. It drove me nuts until I stumbled on the solution: just strum like mad and it figures it out.
New Release: Other Analogues
2020 has made me nostalgic for simpler times, so I used my ample free time to record an all electric improvisation in the spirit of 2014’s Analogues of Infinity.
Really, this was an excuse to play with the Electro-Harmonix Grand Canyon delay. Each track is an improvisation through one of its different delay modes. No real looping on this, but I did record the looper in the same session. The result of that is on Phantom Canyon.
Also, please remind me to never release an album on election day again.
Warbly Noodle Session by Richard Ellis
Richard Ellis’ excellent new album Warbly Noodle Session is out today. It’s an improvised masterclass in tasteful use of the whammy bar which he graciously allowed me to produce.
Check it out at Bandcamp or the streaming site of your choice.