THE MIMETIKS

allo peoples –

finally got kind of a downtime weekend.  everything that WAS supposed to go down’s been cancelled.  so i am enjoying a brief reprieve from immediate responsibilities.  and doing crazy shit like: cleaning my room.  and, in the process, remember all the shit i SAID i was going to do like four months ago before i started the crazed hustle that only a broke musician can know.

well along those lines, i figured i give some evidence that while there’s been basically nothing up on the site Kyle and I have been pretty busy.  while mostly we’ve been doing things on our own or with other project we did have one opportunity late-last year to play together on one project: Arthur Lewis’ CD release.

i may’ve mentioned arthur sometime back on this blog.  or maybe it was my blog… i can’t be sure, anymore.  but he’s a great singer, songwriter, and keyboard player out of new york and i personally love his shit.  we met through a mutual friend about two years ago and have sort of been aware of each other since.  Well, his EP — If We Were –is available on iTunes and such and if you can, you really should check the dude out.

in celebration of the EP coming out he had a concert back in September of ’08 (who can really remember that far back any more?  wasn’t George W. Bush still the President?).  and fortunately it was recorded.  on video!  and then: uploaded to youtube!!  i mean, how fantastic is that?!  i means i can now present you with… a couple of cuts from the concert.  i’m not sure if the whole set is up there, but it might be… i’ve definitely seen two or three songs floating around there.  but these two are two of my favorite joints we did that night.  if you watch the video you’ll see kyle in the upper right-hand corner.  i was just a little further to the right and didn’t make in on to the tape… but you can hear me if you listen for it.

the rest of the details are in the devil… or vice versa.  so check this out, peoples.  and, until nextime, its fats saying: stay funky.

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Something Beautiful

Pefect Moment

akie

oh! fats here, everyone. what a long, long, LOOOONG minute its been since we’ve had the opportunity to post here.  at this point: over a year.  its been a strange and unexpected hiadus, to be quite honest with you.  basically life jumped up and demanded recognition.  and so theMimetiks had to hit the back burner.

(i’m working on kyle to change up the site slightly, but to do that we need more copy — which is my job — and more material — which we finally do got some.)

in the long interim i’ve been here and there with other groups just generally playing out and learning some new shit.  but a couple of weeks ago we returned to Black Betty’s in Williamsburg for a latenight set and found a little bit of that old magic again.  things clicking into place.  tunes being remembered as the came down the pike.  new inventions arising form the ashes of 2008.

at this point there’s practically too much to tell.  or, really, its all too inchoate to be described.  we’re certainly gonna try to put something together for March.  and some of the other projects i’ve been working on have begun to involve some of theMimetiks usual suspects like Aaron Steele, Luke Notary, Zach Dunham.  expect little updates on those things too.

for a more in-depth rehashing of this past year look no further than my private blog at: themimetiks.com/akie

as i find out things, i will pass them on.  i’ve also recently pulled some old footage from past project out of storage.  much of it is progenitus to what eventually worked itself out into theMimetiks vibe.

lastly, i regret to report that Saje is closed… or it was and where it was, there is some other spot.  so we’re looking for a residency around this borough.  if you have any bright ideas… hit me up!

akie

ps.  a hint of what’s to come…

dear all –

some time back (like february of last year) you may remember Kyle and I were working on music for his sister’s senior theatre/dance thesis. well since i’m continually out of phase with such things i… was, uh, out of phase with it. and so i only just found out about the footage of the completed piece being available at googlevideos.

i had to wait one night to post this because, believe it or not, i hadn’t ever seen the finished production. the weekend of the event i think i had to play a gig in like Waubashau, NY or something… so i missed it. but wow. its very hip to see it all come together as it does here.

in the end Kyle and I were working from a rehearsal tape with Emma (Jaster) sort of running through bits of the piece and talking through the bits that weren’t yet certain/choreographed/blocked.

i don’t recall there being any props in the video we saw. it was all imaginary. and i also had no clue what the title meant (its apparently in a different language) but so: without any more nonsense from me. the video. the piece.

ceci n’est pa la lune

Hey folks,

well the sudden and unexpected snowiness prevented me from getting to kyle’s in time to do our Saje hit. still i made it over in good enough time for us to futz around with the music software and pull out the old keyboards and things.

what will come of this? who can say…

(…though that who might be wise to mention, first, that we are once again making music — in an apartment.)

(akie)

its wednesday, finally! and some things keep going well and something just keep going. i’m gonna keep it brief because there is much to be done today. so…. how about something unexpected?

acoustic, even?

the closer/anthem

akie(!)

hey all!

yeah we’re taking a break from gigging for a couple of weeks to get our heads together. and get our plans set for the winter. some of us (the fat one) have to get ready to hibernate, others have to insulate their french doors, or baby-oil massage their drum heads. we need to do some writing. and some recording. and other things as well. so the beginning of novemeber will be a Mimetiks-less zone. we will NOT be at Saje on for at least the first two Sundays of the month. and probably not at Brooklyn Exposure, either.

have no fear, dear listeners, i will keep you a breast of the situation. and stop by with timely quotations and music-gifts. all free as usual. free and clear and under control.

peace,
akie (the fat one)

a lot. but, since we’ve opted to succumb…this should be linked to from our blog. thanks to some guy named rod

Sorry All Who Are Concerned. This coming sunday (the 29th of July) the Mimetiks will not be playing at Saje. We will be in Vermont as a good friend of ours gets married and then rushing back to the city for private evening party in the city. So — those of you in need of the live fix – we’ll be back at it next Sunday (the 5th of August) with old tunes, new tunes, and the same ole’ gusto.

to hold you over… here’s a little something we borrowed from Miles Davis.

Akie

Hey All,

Looks like our Tuesdays at Saje will be canceled until the beginning of September. Apologies, but it would seem Tuesday Night wasn’t as bangingin’ (yes : bangingin’) as it could be and we don’t want to put unnecessary strain on the good people over at Saje.

Never fear, however, for a lack of live music. there are still hip things happening over at Saje and we’ve still got a month of Sundays coming up for you. it will only mean that we put that much more energy into our Sunday afternoon sets.

Hope the Summer is otherwise bangingin’ for every body.

see you sundays,
Akie

Ok. its been a minute. and the last post was something of hurried throw-ing-up (a vomiting, if you will) of music. but today’s an extraordinary day. to day is a day when the forces of several elements were thrown together in precisely the right way. when all the wheels of music were grinding easily together. what was achieved, therefore, was a blasting-effect. and explosion, a projectilic out-pouring. of new music, and new songs. and new sounds. and outrageous cohesion.

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the keeper

here’s a tune that sprung forth from my mind like the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom from her father’s “splitting” head-ache. wednesday afternoon, as i was (supposedly) practicing for a different gig, this tune simply turned my head. maybe it was the night preceding or the coffee-dregs infusing the room with quite, darkening, energy. but i pressed record. made the crap demo mp3. and sent it immediately off to kyle and luke. calling it: the keepers. one alteration: no “s.” hope you dig this summer-song. and let us sing often.

i have no clue

and this is from tuesday night’s craziness. on the spur of the moment we decided to take this little progression and make it a song. and so it became. luke sat on it… and the rest is like water: all flow.

flood

also from tuesday. we started the whole night off with this groove. i may have gotten the syncopation from John Coltrane’s Body and Soul of Coltrane Sound. in the trio format the tune goes from being the poetic sort of rabble-rousing it was intended to be to a sort of scathing spell-casting. its heavy, wild, fire-starting. and its only the first go-round, son.

and finally:
my funny friends
i’m not sure what i can say about this joint. it was the last song of the afternoon. and, we sort of let the guard down. at the center of this maelstrom are two motivational ideas: 1. my favorite things (which kyle had been playing solo at the set break right before we pressed record) and 2. just friends… which gets severely distorted here. and becomes something altogether different. great solo by luke at the end of all… i like to call that last section “the dream.” a dream only, yet, five hours old.

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now i am sitting exhausted in my semi-functional kitchen. with the cats (dolly. dinah. i’m thinking about new names for them. or last names. the Antigone sisters anyone? or is that too much?) all this is in the past now. but the excitement of it remains. i hope it excites you, dear reader. and send you into the same tizzy is sent me.

if not: we’ll keep trying.

til we do,

keep listening.

- akie