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!
That Was Really Super Laid Back
The Pressure Is On, or Why I Decided To Record An Entire Album In One Weekend
I've produced quite a few songs at this point for a variety of artists and styles. I've also released many of my own productions - countless hours in the dark studio clicking, sliding, and space bar-ing my life away.
This spring is time for a change, a new challenge: Roaming Crazy is going to record an entire album in a weekend marathon recording session, and we are going to film the whole ordeal for a documentary. See, this is how we live. Being an independent artist in the 21st century is a strange existence, one that never seems to be documented besides the content of the creation itself. This challenge is the largest the band has ever faced, and the largest this producer has ever faced. In short, there will plenty of opportunity for drama and fun so we are bringing a camera crew with us through the journey.
(BTW - I do hate most reality TV, so I'm going to be uncomfortable with the cameras around, but I think there is an excellent story to be told so I'm gonna go along.)
The plan is to make the best Roaming Crazy album we can in the shortest amount of time, at the lowest budget. This will not be 1-mic in the corner rehearsal punk rock stuff, this will be a full Flux-adel Multi-track Production. We will be using every bit of our resources in the name of ART and ROCK AND ROLL, amen!
Plus there's a little addition -- YOU could be in the documentary. We are looking for recorded opinions on our chances, reviews of our song and sound, or whatever you want to send/post. Turn your camera phone on and sound off. Ever heard of a band doing this? Think it's a horrible idea? Need your gorgeous face in our goofy documentary? Just want to send best wishes? Here's your chance.
Roaming Crazy Available on iTunes – Put it on your walkman now!
-Ezraz
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!
Books and Music – So much on the way
So many opportunites with so little cash, so much fun to be had makin the dash, but I have big billskys, crying babeskys swirling around.
On I march through thick and thin living the best in the skin I'm in. I borrow old song lines when I post as a crutch, I know, but my crippled ass is on a mission. What can I say I have no rhyme but lots of reasons.
I have two books in the works because I want to publish something beautiful for the shelf or the table or your bag: 1 is a book of 2merica imagery and lyrics, the other is a book of my writing, mainly poetry. Both are in production now but I have no firm timeline. They will of course be for sale online.
Also, the next 2 tracks from Scherzo Elskorpion are almost ready for mastering. Like the debut "Never Met Tomorrow", they are full band let's go all the way affairs and I think you will dig both "Keep Steady" and "Mass Entertainment".
Now if I could only finish the remaining 2 tracks and put out all 5 on vinyl I'd be the most happiest boy alive. That's a nice long term goal, please check with me on that one later.
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Ez
An augmented future starring Headtronics
So with all this hopeful optimism (Obamaism?) I have to tell you about 2 new developments. First off the always funky Freekbass has joined forces with 2 others for his first "supergroup side project". Called Headtronics and featuring a killer lineup of Freek on bass, Steve Molitz from Particle on Keys, and DJ Logic on everything else, they are finally playing Ohio next weekend so you know I will have to check that out. Been a big fan of Dub Trio for a bit so I can't wait to see the Headtronics Trio put their shingle out.
On the homefront, The Flux-adel Recording Division (also in the heart of the northside) has been active lately, doing both final mixes on 2new 2merica tracks for Scherzo Elskorpion, and starting preliminary writing on new material with the very talented Dakota "chief" Stonerock.
Finally -- Last summer I was part of my own wannabe supergroup sideproject that managed to write and record a single song before disbanding. The track is called "Stares 2020" and is currently hanging around on the HD waiting for it's parents to work chit out. I hope you readers will get to hear it sometime, it's probably the hardest thing I've ever produced, like way up in your face, you know, HAVE SOME! Production.
Ezzy
Ps Anyone see Roy Ayers sitting in with The Roots on Fallon last night? Hot damn I hope the roots are recording all those commercial break jams that we miss on tv for us to dig on forever after.
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