we just got back into brooklyn from our first long distance Mimetik venture. notes on the trip (a mixture of day jobs, other gigs, noir vignettes, and in-car bacchanals) to follow soon. tonight is for rebooting. and rediscovering one’s own apartment.
akie
another month of sundays has gone by. as always, we have been working furtively (under the cover of night) to produce new music for anyone who cares to dig it and listen. The writing process has been a little hampered by work and gigs and bills and life — but, like all things essential, its goes on. through sleepless nights and endless car rides, though it rains, though it shines: we bring you music.
this week’s post is a single track. a single track made, ostensibly, in a single day. for sometime we’ve been pushing around the idea of writing music with a purpose or intention. something kyle said we should call music for an apartment. so we took all our shit, put it in my van, brought it to kyle’s place, set it up, and started recording. the result was “the measure.” while it is a departure from the straight acoustic sound, its all coming from the same place. the acoustic thing is definitely still going on (we’re bringing it to Colby College on the 27th of October) but music for an apartment is more about what we can do with some of the instruments we have laying around the house as well as the usual stuff. there’s more of this coming, many ideas in the working, and with any luck a complete statement before year’s end. if you do dig it, let us know, or let SOMEBODY know. send this shit around. give it as a gift. be a jerk — keep it for yourself. play it in your apartment. i mean, that’s what its for.
that’s it for this sunday, ya’ll. word and peace.
akie
We’re looking into t-shirts and merch and the like… mainly ’cause, uh, we give everything else away for free. So anyway, i knocked up a couple logo-styley thing-a-ma-bobs, and thought I’d try to test ‘em out on the die-hards before going into production. Isn’t this a great opportunity to say something nasty? Let us know what ya think…I’ve been trying to figure out what our ‘look’ is - difficult since I still haven’t figured out what our ’sound’ is, hence the aesthetic schizophrenia. I was inclined to just write ‘lions and tigers and bears oh my!” over and over and then somewhere interrupt it with ‘the mimetiks’ - but that’s just bananas, right? (which, unfortunately, was another idea…I have just realized I use way to many ellipses)
On a somewhat different note - look for our new flash player in the next week, it’ll keep you from having to actually click on anything to hear us, which might be nice. Also, if you happen to be in Maine on Oct 27th you can come check us out live at Colby College (more on this, I’m sure, when Akie posts…alas he is, recuperating and I have been left to my own devices…).
