The “Three Sketches” EP is now available at the Audio Gourmet netlabel.
Track listing is:
1. Bellsketch (3:20)
2. Fieldsketch (4:10)
3. Owlsketch (7:20)
Visit: http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/three-sketches and grab some of the other free EPs as well.
A forthcoming release, likely in August, will be Ambient Matyk – Live In Iowa City 2005. Jon and I played on the Iowa City Ped Mall at the corner of Dubuque St and Washington Ave amongst people, skateboarders, old guys playing chess, and the general public during an early autumn evening. It’s eight tracks, all made live and improvisationally.
1. Birds and Dogs (7:56)
2. Evening Air (6:22)
3. Evening Breeze (9:42)
4. The Lost Walk (7:26)
5. From Here To There (3:19)
6. Open Sesame (1:56)
7. In The Sky (5:51)
8. Washington Cherry (13:54)
Jon Harnish – bass guitar, zoom fx box, bass amp
Mark Rushton – laptop, loops, sony acid pro, bose L1/B1, sony minidisc recorder
It’ll be released for free via Bandcamp first, and then eventually on pay services like iTunes, Napster, etc.
Why have these recordings taken so long to be released? I think at the time we felt that we’d just release them via the podcast since they were recorded outdoors, but now with all these services like Bandcamp where we can just make it a free download album then that’s easy to do. If people feel compelled to buy or use a subscription service to download then we’ll give you that option.
Podcast #41, out as of Tuesday, June 15, 2010, indicates that the Ambient Matyk album is now a free download at Bandcamp. Also included in the 25 minute podcast are 4 outtakes from those sessions.
Ambient Matyk is now a free download at Bandcamp.
It’s available in 320 MP3, FLAC, AAC, and other formats.
Anybody can download it. No restrictions. No money. No email addresses will be collected.
Jon Harnish and I made the decision today to give it away. It’s just after the 2nd anniversary of the Flood of 2008 for Cedar Rapids. We recorded this outdoors under a tree at the end of July and beginning of August 2009 right after the Matyk Building in the New Bohemia arts neighborhood got electricity hooked back up. We ran an extension cord out the back door and hooked up our equipment and played outdoors.
We think this is an amazing album of improvisational live electronic music coupled with the ambiance of a re-emerging neighborhood wrecked by flooding. It’s not for everybody, but we want to have as many people listen to it as are interested.
- Mark Rushton, June 14, 2010
Made in 2002 when I was stringing together sounds made by others in order to try to create my own sound. Things have changed since then, but this is still a great electronic-driven groove-rock track. Previously unreleased, other than on my MP3-only data compilation CD called “Florilegium (MP3s 2000 to 2003)”.
