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

Hi theres,

I’ve suddenly picked up a few fresh and positive reviews which I will now share with you (in convenient PDF format, tho you can always follow the links back to the source) …

Here is Julian Cope’s review of my new cassette, “OBLATIONS TO A DIGITAL MUSE” –
http://www.5-Track.com/press/HEADHERITAGE_reviews_OBLATIONS.pdf

… and here is a review from TERRASCOPE ONLINE of “Lost Soul Island” by 5-Track & Glass Goblins:
http://www.5-Track.com/press/TERRASCOPE_review_GGLSI.pdf

You can dig them amongst the accumulating nest of other press hither:
http://www.5-Track.com/5/5press.php

hope you-all’s well,
5-Track

with Kevin, Jef, and 5-Track

http://www.archive.org/details/glassgoblins2010-05-30.EchoCountryOutpost

Thanks to Volita Pearl for making this vid, and to Jennifer Ng for supplying the banga-banga

Good morning!

Today, Tuesday April 20 2010, is the official launch date of Cosmic Primitive Records, a web-label run by Marc Cantlin and myself.

Marc has been my main musical co-conspirator for about 18 years. We felt we needed a label as a forum for the musics we’ve made together and separately, and also the music of our many talented friends.

Here is a link to what we’ve done so far:
http://www.cosmicprimitive.com

So far the sounds are heavily on the side of improvised guitar skronk, but we’ve also got some acid-folk (my own “Backatcha, Pod People!!” and also “Acousticophilia” by The Wax Evolution), psychedelic rocknroll (the long-awaited “Lost Soul Island” by Glass Goblins) and there will be other things of diverse nature added to the catalog in the near future.

If you’d like to help us out, I’d love for you to post a link to our site on any tweetspaces, faceblogs, or whatever else you use to interface with the culture… or just FWD this post all over the place.

thanks and good luck,
5-Track

Somehow when I wasn’t looking, I got a lot of shows on my calendar … for example:

Saturday March 27 2010
Amanda Jo Williams record release party
featuring Matthew O’Neill, He’s My Brother She’s My Sister, Paul McMahon, others
will be performing at
The Echo Country Outpost
1930 Echo Park Ave, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, 90026
6pm, all ages, $5

followed immediately by

Saturday March 27 2010 (later on that night)
Cricket & The 2:19
with special guests Jon Franco, Jef Hogan and Secret Weapon Woody
will be performing at
TAIX
1911 Sunset Boulevard, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA 90026
all ages, 10pm, free

… that should be a full night. In the afternoon I’m driving out to Whittier and Pico Rivera to collect Jon Franco (Cricket drums) and Secret Weapon Woody (guest Cricket guitar) and bringing them to Jef’s house for a quick rehearsal. Jef is playing electric bass that night with Cricket and also playing upright bass with Amanda Jo.

After that rehearsal, I have to split back to Echo Park because I am playing bass with Matthew O’Neill at Amanda’s record release party around 6:15pm. Then I’m playing guitar with Amanda. Then I’m hauling my ass over to TAIX to play guitar with Cricket.

Fortunately both shows are in Echo Park which makes this not just easy but fun. I am especially looking forward to playing again at the Echo Country Outpost … then again, TAIX gives me awesome dinner. It’s a toss-up.

Meanwhile…

Thursday April 1 2010
Amanda Jo Williams and Matthew O’Neill / 6Jaguar
will be performing at
Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace
53688 Pioneertown Road, Pioneertown, CA 92268

That one’s out in the desert, folks. Not sure where (or if or how) I’m sleeping that night … but I guarantee the gig will be lovely. I’m playing guitar with Amanda Jo and bass with Matthew, Jef will be out there to play upright bass with Amanda, and Tribe Of Scott Keil will be along to drum with Matthew. Any excuse to go to the desert, and devil take the logistics.

Now, how about this: looks like I booked a show for my own band, for a change! How’d that happen?? We’re gonna have Simon Thomsen (of Cricket & The 2:19) on the drums, something I’ve been wanting to do for months and months; Jef Hogan on the bass; and Secret Weapon Woody on the guitar (gotta get my use out of that boy before he goes back to Seattle!) …

Friday April 9 2010
5-TRACK (glass goblins)
will be performing at
Abuelita’s
137 S. Topanga Canyon Blvd. Topanga, CA 90290
10pm, 21+, free

There’s more after that. But I don’t want to think that far ahead. We’re also moving house this week. With luck, all the music I’m playing will give me the strength I need to move all the books and records and CDs and cat and etc

I had the opportunity to play two wonderful shows this week, both with Amanda Jo Williams.

The first was held at a place called the Echo Country Outpost, which co-owner Chris insists is “not a venue”! What it is, is, is a funky little store on Echo Park Blvd (corner of Duane, out past Chango a ways) that I couldn’t tell exactly what they sell but I am certain it is cool, whatever it is.

For the occasion (perhaps the first show held there? perhaps it will be a monthly event from here out?) a stage existed at the back of the main room, on which played first a group (in this instance a duo tho sometimes they are larger) called Verb The Adjective Noun. Originally from Boston, temporarily not living in their bus, they were very tight and propulsive, not just for a duo but all around. One of them played guitar and sang, and the other played guitar, banjo and lap steel with equal and impressive facility. Good vocal harmonies. Rootsy without spilling either too far into tradition or too far into singer-songwriter ickiness.

The headliners, Abilene of whom I believe set up the show, were called Sundays Soundtrack. They had a wonderful upright bassist and two wonderful women and they were vibey and moody and harmonistic and bouyant and I enjoyed them a lot.

We played in between.

So, a little show in a little store, but there were at least 60 people in there which made it FULL, and I don’t think I’d ever met more than a half dozen of them before. We had a rough set, new bass player (he did a fine job, but it was his first show with us) and tuning issues for me and Amanda, but the people really dug it, they laughed with us not at us and by the end we had a wonderful energy going, the best energy I’ve felt in a room yet at a Los Angeles show. Score one for Echo Country!

…

OK, and then last night we played at the Echo Curio, which is very possibly my favorite in-town venue to play at. It’s run by the awesome Grant-and-Justin dynamic duo, there’s an amazing stream of art that passes across the walls and a room full of weird records for cheap, we played at the top of a bill of ridiculously talented women (which was a new and wonderful context to hear Amanda’s music in) and once again a room full of 60 total strangers and a few good friends just dug us to death, kept us going for an extra tune or so past what Amanda had intended to play. Let me tell you, we felt GOOD. And the new bass, upright Jef Hogan (with one ‘f’), really makes it.

Also on the bill last night were Fort King (who I didn’t get to hear cos I was eating a burrito next door, but they were very nice) … Beliss, a duo of sisters (I am told) whose vocal harmonies are unusual and beautiful and who feature lush acoustic guitar voicings and electric-upright bass-playing to die for. Or at least to swoon about … and Ora Cogan, who might be a cosmic parallel to Elizabeth Cotton or Karen Dalton, who sings like no one else I’ve heard (beautifully, swoopingly, in a round and full voice) and who coaxes lovely rich tones from an electric hollowbody Gibson tuned in an array of unusual manners.

Solid week.

Tune in later for the weather!

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

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