Introducing The Spiderbots
No they are not from Mars. I'm from Cleveland and I make music as often as possible. Here's an extended piece I worked on for many years: Music for Spiderbots, in Three Parts. Na zdrowie!
Ezraz Solo Tracks Released
Among all the other action in my artistic life this year I'm managing to release several instrumental pieces leaning towards the ambient or musique concrete genre. I've planned three releases in this order: EP, LP in symphony format, then LP in dub format.
- The 1st EP License Punch Out! is being released now and the first track "Need" is streaming on JangoRadio here.
- The 2nd release is far more ambitious, running as a full LP length in 3-movement symphony format, with the working title Spiderbots. This is complete and going to mastering soon, with a street date of around 10/1.
- The 3rd release slows way down to explore the dynamics of dub and probably won't make it out until early 2012.
These are not meant as a set, but together show a wide range of Ezraz' composition and style without outside collaborative influences. You may hear these pieces in placements more than traditional music outlets since they are instrumental and eschew traditional song formatting.
Roaming Crazy Available on iTunes – Put it on your walkman now!
-Ezraz
Messed Around and Made a Rock Band
We are ROAMING CRAZY and we are alive online here (and sorta here so far). You can stream our debut track "Stares 2020" and soon enough purr-chase it. I am twiddling knobs and playing some keys in this lineup and it's been a blast trying to make some fresh sounds. It ain't what most would call the funk but life is just so complex, I had to get my rocks off!
Being the weird post-everything music industry that it is, we have more merchandise than songs available. Killer! Head over to the Roaming Crazy Store to see our new sexy shirt models, you won't be disappointed.
My New Project Is Taking Off
Finally some action on the northside we can announce... a new project, a new single, and a fresh start in 2011! The new band is working under the moniker "Roaming Crazy" and features a strong lineup of JP, Dakota, LoCro, and myself Ezraz.
Roaming Crazy is gonna be Aggressively Improvised Innovation introduced to you by the first single "Stares 2020", with a release targeted for mid-winter. Hopefully all the spambots that subscribe to this blog will purchase a copy.
The millions of 2MERICA fans shocked to read this news should not be alarmed. Put down your weapon of choice -- 2M will stay strong, with the latest single "Keep Steady" hitting the internuts just now, plus the next track from Scherzo Elskorpion - the boombastic "Mass Entertainment" - should be plastering your face this spring. I was born to multitask, rocking both the pre-empt and the co-op suckas!
The Cleveland Superbomb
We have some pre-winter storms rolling through so I watch this with instant nostalgia. Stupid skorpion monkeys.
WFNK RADIO Lives!!
You web old schoolers might remember a set of streaming radio stations I used to program about 10 years ago. There was the infamous P.Addict Radio playing all rarities from the P-Funk mob, Newzilla Radio that played unsigned funky stuff, and the flagship station WFNK RADIO that did a little bit of everything. It was a good listen and lots of fun managing those streams but they died out eventually.
I'm happy to announce that I just brought WFNK RADIO back in a new form, this time on Jango. It's free, sounds good, works in most browsers, doesn't leak memory, and if you sign up for an account you get all sorts of social-media features to add to your listening experience. Same things as before just 10 years of web advancement makes it that much better.
Tune in right here: play WFNK Radio. Old-school funk and soul, newer sounds, and the occasional rock track thrown in to keep the mix going... check out the new WFNK Radio! If you haven't tried streaming radio like Jango and Pandora lately give it a shot, it's come a long way. I find Pandora's library and playlists to be lacking, but Jango let's you really build a killer station.
-Ez
Progress/Process… ps “I am not a whore” haha
Wow, the 2MERIMIX OPEN MIND NITE @ The Duck last night has left all involved groggy and probably a bit irritable, but time marches on, the beat goes on, the show must go on, etc.. Thankfully two bits of progress in the battle against irrelevance came through today:
-- First off the next 2MERICA single just left the mastering engineer and it's making it's way to the tubes of the internets. Titled "Keep Steady", it's the 2nd of 5 tracks from the Scherzo Elskorpion LP. It's also the 'sex scene' in the soundtrack so check it out! Like most 2MERICA songs, it's a curveball that turns into a knuckleball right before you swing and miss, so yeah, stay tooned for the latest and greatest. This track is an old school sick jam with Jesus on bass, Swifty on the v-drums, some killer sax from J, Jaimeson doing his dirty rap, lil' Z on guitars, and Ezraz supplying the remaining noise. It should be available for purchase at the usual suspects (iTunes, cdbaby, amazon) and for streaming (Napster, Spotify, and Jango) in about a month.
-- Secondly, the process of 'going legit' (aka getting our chit together) has continued, with a parent company formed to manage the Flux-adel Recording Division and all of it's various progressions and proclivities. You the faithful internet cruiser won't notice or care about this, but we are all proud and wanted to make the announcement. Collinwood Sun LLC has risen.
So yeah. My manager Fahqfasse finally got some stuff done. I get to hang out back and pee on his office, the mighty brick fortress known as FF Bookman Promotions. Which is my little way of posting status updates on his wall.
LOVE
Ezrazmus 'elemento' jones, founder of the round world society, 73rd generation panfunktual bonobo
ps - here's something to cheer you up, the unforgettable Cee-Lo Green has had me singing this hook for 3 days now!
Flux-adel Recording Division and 2MERICA team up for EVENT/HAPPENING
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Eternal Moments
There truly are times when I pinch myself. I have seen some interesting, crazy, sad, beautiful, and legendary things unfold into my eyes, allowing me the first hand juice of being there. It seems that this digital sharing age still gets blasted back in place by a nice dose of reality up in your nostrils.
I found my eyes watering and my psyche tingling as I caught Headtronics live last Thursday. The show was smoking (of course). Freekbass and DJ Logic did their thing strong as usual. Their third this night was the legendary Wizard of Woo, ladies and gentlemen presenting Mr. Bernie Worrell!!
Nice, right? How about the legend playing a killer improvisational set through my keyboards? That would be something special, perhaps even the highlight of my musical life so far. Yes indeed.
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