I wrote this is a slightly intense acoustic tune back last winter sometime … finally got a chance to play it with a band during rehearsals for the next round of GLASS GOBLINS shows … sounded so good I’ve posted the 1st and only rehearsal take:

Sweet Crazy Heart (1st jam) by 5-TRACK

That’s Scott Keil on the drums, Jennifer Ng otherwise percussing, and Voodoo Will momentarily on loan from the Voodoo Fix.

enjoy!!

5-Track

*NOTE … this podcast is no longer available … my apologies!! Maybe keep an eye on Kosmik Dave’s future playlists, just in case

http://www.kosmikradiation.com/2010.06.11.htm

DJ Dave 3000 out of Madison, WI, has been so kind as to include a track of mine called “COMETS” (the special home-demo semi-4-tracked version with Zlicious on drums!!) in his June 12th Kosmik Radiation Podcast … you can listen to it at the link above … I think I’m in segment 2. It’s a super-cool track imho and I’m not sure where else you’ll be able to hear it anytime soon. A somewhat more rocknroll version will be appearing on the next Glass Goblins album, however.

Hey hey,

http://5-track.com/mp3/FloatingOther/1stFloatingOther.mp3

here’s a little piece (60 minutes worth) from my creative music / improv unit, “Floating Other“. The name has to do with the geometric alliances of players within a given personnel and also with the inclusion of elements outside the ostensible set of performing musicians.

in this first recording, the role of the “other” is handed around between myself, bassist Jef Hogan Buffa, percussionist Jennifer Ng, and an acknowledgment of the mischievous presence (a floating other?) with which Jef shares his home.

Floating Other will be performing on Wednesday June 30th at the Echo Curio,
1519 Sunset Blvd, Echo Park, CA 90026,
9pm,
with additional performances by Jack’l, Stefan Scott Nelson, and Art Terry.

Matthew O’Neill has released his album “The Harbor’s Delight” as a free download through his website.

On the one hand, this is a gross injustice, as the album is wonderful and he should have his pick of labels and distributors and should be touring Europe and Japan (not to mention the United States) to wide acclaim and there should be Top 40 covers of his songs making him silly rich…

On the other hand, YOU can hear his album for FREE. And that makes you a lucky, lucky human.

“The Harbor’s Delight” was largely recorded on the east coast before Matthew migrated to the Los Angeles hellhole. The musicians involved had a delicate touch and also that northeastern sense of geological space that stems partly from the resonance of nearby mountains built on an almost human scale. The result is something like a truly global music woven from particular strands of human DNA, with elements of so many different things twined in that I hesitate to point to any of them. Matthew’s songwriting is rural-primitive/awesome, his electric guitar work is pristinely luscious and (sometimes) beautifully spazzoid, the band walks a fine and hitherto unwalked line between world-groove and country-rock … but again, maybe I shouldn’t say that, because I don’t want you trying to imagine what that would sound like and getting it wrong.

Tell you what, just go download it and listen. It’s free, like I said. Full-length album, hi-fidelity sound, wonderfully balanced performances of excellent songs by a solid talent you’ve never heard of. Isn’t that everyone’s definition of bliss?

featuring Woody (acoustic guitar) and 5-Track (acoustic guitar)

1A

3

1B

click here to listen:
http://www.archive.org/details/5-Track2010-03-05.VientoYAguaglassgoblins

For the evening of March 4 we assembled a group including Jef Hogan (electric bass), Jon Franco (drums), Jennifer Ng (percussion), Woody (acoustic guitar) and myself (acoustic wah-wah guitar).

I had one rehearsal with Jef and John (who also play bass and drums for Greg Franco’s Rough Church), one run-through with Woody, and a loose jam with Jennifer, in the few days before the show. Many of the band members had not met each other until they arrived at the venue. This is less unusual for me than might be suspected.

Viento y Agua in Long Beach is a “coffee house” with wonderful energy, constantly changing art on the walls, the occasional model skeleton, many books, and a warm and inviting stage (and sound system) which was conceived and assembled by Angie Evans. I’ve played a few shows there, by myself and also with Cricket and with Amanda, and every time I’ve felt good and played well.

This was the first time I’d played some of this material in a long time, and the first time I’d ever played some of it with a band. The two acoustic guitars kept the energy closer to the ground than usual, and the songs and improvs worked together for a change instead of fighting for space. The existence of dual percussionists also contributed to the effortless momentum of this group’s sound. We had momentum without frightful velocity.

Good show. Hope we do it again.

More information about this track (including Album Cover Art) can be experienced at

www.marccantlin.com

specifically at the February 13 2010 entry

… lyrics available here

WIGGLED NO LONGER

This is an mp3 from a recent practice session of the Cantlin family supergroup: Albino Rhino. As yet, this is the only recording of theirs which is available in any way, shape, or form. They do not have a myspace page. They do not have a CD. But, like their rarely-sighted, myopic, blundering and sometimes dangerous namesake, they do exist.

This tune in particular was an improv, live to your earholes from Bethel, Vermont. They do have “actual” material, but you can not hear it, yet.

Meggan Cantlin - singing
Marc Cantlin - electric guitar
Chris Cantlin - electric bass guitar
Anthony Cantlin - drums

anyone who’s been waiting for the iTunes link before making their purchase of “A Moose Supreme” by Evan & The Modern Human Show …

wait no longer, here it is:

http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=281401774&id=281401757&s=143441