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.
just a bit of fun and games while jaster and i are working on some new… music for an apartment stuff… please enjoy. this is from a opening gig i did at in Marlboro for Taylor Eigsti and Julian Lage (it was a killer show!)
this was the set closer. and if you know me, i like to end sets with a feeling of: “oh… well…” back in the Foundation days we used to call it “the knock out music.” (which normally came after a long period of high energy explosiveness we used to call “the hay makers.”)
so. you may recognize some of this medley from mimetiks shows… with an extra-special ending thrown in. but can you name the song, my dearies?….
Akie here again. Just checking in before the Thanksgiving break. We should be back at November’s end with some hip new music and ideas and concepts and all that good stuff. for now, i give you a track i don’t THINK we’ve released yet. from an aborted Hip Hop Open Mic project at Brooklyn Exposure. We were supposed to play background music to a gaggle of MCs. but no MCs showed up. so i kyle told me to sing the night out. tired and un-enthused as i was, i did so. The drummer for that night was the young gun, Aaron ‘juse’ Steele. and so, we got a little something nice from the occasion.
Expect to hear more from Aaron in future. Need I speak to significance of the name?
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?
Its been a crazy couple of weeks, good people. recently we returned to Brooklyn Exposure to play a big-n-loud nighttime show. and it was, as always, liberating and maddening and exciting and peculiar. we may begin a series of shows there as October wears on.
but that’s future news. what’s hip right now is right now. and right now I’m talking about the 16th of September. When the planets aligned in such a way that when Luke, Kyle, and I hit for our usual sunday brunch at Saje, we were seeing red. the tunes all came alive of their own accord and thrust us, unsuspectingly in to funky paradise.
it sounded so nice to our ears that we figured, O what the hell. Let’s put the entire show up and damn brevity. (needless to say it took some time to get it all mixed down right and uploaded… but the wait is over. its been not quite a month, but well over a fortnight.)
so without further ado: i give you the entire concert from 9.16.07 at the Saje Cafe — in Brooklyn.
