Discrete Santa

Warm up those chestnuts, slurp down a frothy glass of nog, and get the christmas spirit deep inside you; it's Christmas on Craigslist again!

It's a bit of a Christmas miracle that this album exists at all; we recorded these tracks back in December 2014 with the intention of releasing the album the following year. Foolishly I didn't back the files up, and the hard drive they were on became corrupted. It seemed as if this jam session was lost to the computer gods. However after some research into data recovery I discovered that the files were just trapped in purgatory. Then it was just a matter of having the time and money to recover everything.

I was thrilled when everything was fully recovered and I had an opportunity to listen to what we had recorded for the first time in 2 years. There are some really solid Craigslist classics on here like "Mistress for Christmas" and "16 Days of Christmas", not to mention some non-craigslist originals like "Hey Who Put these Chestnuts Here?" and "Santa Doesn't want to go to Work Today."

These are sure to become your new favorite carols to sing. Maybe you'll even hear a track played on Jon Solomon's 25hr Christmas Marathon on WPRB this year.

Enjoy Your Christmas and remember to be discrete!

Escape from Margaritaville

Take an adventure to the dystopian Stalin-esque world of Margaritaville; where workers must toil endlessly in the salt mines and lime tree fields. Freedom can only be found in the lonesome void of space. Will our protagonist succeed in their attempt to escape? Perhaps, with the help of a certain brick oven pizza proprietor.

This is sort of a retconned concept album; a theme inspired purely by a title, imposed over a typical improvised jam session, and left up to the listener's imagination to create their own sci-fi thriller. A rather compact album, clocking it at under 30 minutes, Escape from Margaritaville is a quick sonic trek through clangorous oppressive beats, heavenly swells of squealing saxophone, and ambient space narration.

A memorable moment from this jam session was mid recording when, after much plugging and unplugging in an attempted to rectify a lost signal, Joemazing opened the top of a bargain bin mic he had been using. Much to his disgust he pulled out a filthy, crumbling, piece of what I can only assume was once foam insolation.

Once again I must commend Michael Burke on the terrific album artwork he created, it creates the perfect atmosphere and turns this silly title into a full formed concept. For maximum appreciation, pour yourself a margarita, pop on a good pair of head phones, and let the artwork inspire your own narrative adventure

Brown 'til Dawn

Prepare for some sexy late night grooves with The Brown Christmas on this concept album presented as an overnight radio program.

I am a big believer in the idea that the setting and time of a jam session has an overall effect on the music produced, which is why this is such a unique album. Back in November of 2014 I switched over to working an overnight shift for 2 weeks. In preparation for this sleep schedule shift I seized the opportunity to record a Brown Christmas jam at uncharted hours of the night.

The result is Brown 'til Dawn, a fictional radio show airing weeknights from 1am to 6am. The tracks on this album are far more mellow than perhaps anything we've done before, and as tongue-in-cheek as the whole 'erotic late night broadcast' is meant to be, the music oddly fits that aesthetic. What started on Tugboats, Trolleys, and Trains and was refined on Good Enough to Screw is fully realized on this album, as we take our normally experimental/noise sound and fuse it with a more funky feel.

So dim the lights, grab your self a drink, snuggle close with your lover of choice, and enjoy Brown 'til Dawn. 

*For full effect it's probably best to listen to this between the hours of 1am-6am