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A new, free track of mine at Soundcloud called The Travellers.  8 minutes and 42 seconds.  Download or stream.

The Travellers by markrushton

Jon Harnish’s first EP is called White Cold and is available at Bandcamp.com.

It features 3 instrumental tracks:  “Slown”, ‘White Span”, and “Ray”.

The EP is “name your own price” above $5.  All proceeds will benefit At Risk Animals in Hiawatha, Iowa.  Mastercard, Visa, AmEx, Discover, and Paypal are accepted.

The Driver’s Companion (bandcamp), Hum and Drift (bandcamp), and Flow (bandcamp) are now available as digital downloads at Bandcamp.

Buyers looking for a compact disc can order each of these albums in that format and also receive immediate digital downloads as a bonus.

There are also links to additional merchandise such as t-shirts through the Bandcamp pages.

Bandcamp allows digital downloads in these formats:

• FLAC
• ALAC
• OGG
• AAC
• MP3

Purchases can be made per-track or the entire album.  Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and also Paypal can be used.  Currency conversion is available for customers outside of the United States.

Ambient Matyk is now available for download worlwide at Bandcamp.

Bandcamp allows digital downloads in these formats:

• FLAC
• ALAC
• OGG
• AAC
• MP3

Purchases can be made per-track or the entire album.  Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and also Paypal can be used.  Currency conversion is available for customers outside of the United States.

Mark Rushton Podcast #39 is now available.  It’s the audio commentary by myself and Jon Harnish on the Ambient Matyk album:  the recording, the reasons, the themes, and lots of other information.

It’s a big file.  Just over 65 minutes.  63MB file.  Grab it here:  http://www.markrushton.com/music/podcast/markrushtonpodcast39.mp3

You can always subscribe via iTunes, or you can grab the RSS feed, or you can also get the feed notification via email.

Bound Off Short Story Podcast #48 is out as of January 15, 2010.  Stories are “Life Vest” by Tricia Louvar and An Easy Going by Simon Smith.   Download it here.  15 minutes and 30 seconds.

Backing music by Ambient Matyk, a track called Carpenter’s 3rd, from the forthcoming album Weathering.

I released one album in 2009, the Ambient Matyk album that I made with Jon Harnish.  This was a digital-only release (iTunes, AmazonMP3, Napster, Rhapsody, Spotify, etc).

Made some videos.  The Water Tower from the Ambient Matyk album.   Winter Wind Chimes from the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album.  Russia’s Very Low Frequency Station, an edited version of a track from a 2005 podcast.

Released 6 podcasts in 2009:

• #33 – “Recent Free MP3s” on January 6, 2009.  6259 downloads in 2009.
• #34 – “Flow Outtakes” on March 15, 2009.  13,077 downloads in 2009.
• #35 – “April Fool’s Podcast” on April 1, 2009, one day only.  701 downloads.
• #36 – “More Flow Outtakes” on July 18, 2009.  2854 downloads in 2009.
• #37 – “Return To Bohemia” on August 4, 2009.  9044 downloads in 2009.
• #38 – “Ambient Matyk” on October 18, 2009.  5456 downloads in 2009.

Here are some plans for 2010:

There will probably be a CD release for Ambient Matyk, perhaps by February.  Jon and I also want to release Ornate Culmination on CD.  This will both likely happen through CafePress, which prints CDs on-demand and which we’ve used for past releases.  CDs are a lower-demand item these days and I’m just not interested in having some pressed and sitting around as inventory anymore.

Jon and I have another Ambient Matyk album ready.   Tentative title is “Weathering“.  It’ll contain the “Esker” EP which was put out for free in 2008, along with (hopefully) some tracks we did with guitarist Craig Erickson, and some other pieces Jon and I have worked on since 2007.

Tentative track listing:

1. A Short Drive Through Kingston (1:07)
2. Bathyscaphe (4:16)
3. Challenger Deep (3:20)
4. The Flood (21:13)
5. Hotel Jefferson (4:27)
6. Carpenter’s 3rd (5:40)
7. Ten Foot Tomato (3:20)
8. Circadian Drift (3:20)
9. Esker (11:27)
10. Drumlin (5:33)
11. Weathering (5:44)

Jon and I also want to release some recordings we made live In Iowa City in 2005 and 2006.  The first album, from 2005, has 8 tracks.  They are very loose, humorous, and have some light beats in places.  There’s another live recording from either late 2005 or spring 2006.  These would be released as Ambient Matyk recordings.

In addition to all this, I have more than enough material for another solo album.

For podcasts, Jon and I want to do an audio commentary of the Ambient Matyk album we released in the fall of 2008.  It would be us talking over the recording, much like an audio commentary that you hear on DVDs.  We wanted to get this done before the end of 2009, but work schedules, family commitments, and exceptionally bad winter weather had made this impossible to complete.

I made a still image video for “Winter Wind Chimes” (off the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album) and put it on YouTube:

I’ve posted a track I created this year, Potential Ride, on my Soundcloud.  It’s very mellow electronica, and more melodic than you normally hear out of me. It can be downloaded or streamed.

Potential Ride by markrushton

My Twitter feed is back for MarkRushtonCom if you’re into it.