...of my dreams...
Everyone sings
Kevin keyboards
Eddy /trumpet/guitar
Peter trombone/wurlitzer
Phil drums
Alex drums
Steve trombone/wurlitzer
Influences
Sounds Like
Karl Blau has made many sounds. As of late, I am "finding my voice" in imitating sounds of men of African descent vis-à-vis Toots(of Jamaica), Abdullah Ibrahim, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, the Meters, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, to name a few. I am thinking of myself as a sound mirror to this continent and its many voices distributed throughout the earth.
You may have to wait to hear this come into fruition. I'm working on these recordings now: blues/soul/dance/jazz.
"Sometimes I go around pitying myself, all the while Great Wind carries me across the sky" -- Chippewa saying
Here is a mod podge of new and old. Please enjoy these recordings.
Two songs from my latest K release Nature's Got Away -- "It's the Stars" and "Stream of Ganders"-- take home the whole album from your local independent record store.
"I Hold You High" is a track from Songs to Make a Living. I put this up as a shout out to you, Brian Malloy.
Stereoearrings is a project that I started a few years ago to represent my instrumental recordings. There are 2 official Stereoearrings releases: self titled, and "Trunkal Howl". Though the one I consider the first is the instrumental album "Dunkel Blau" (Karl Blau) that came out as Kelp issue number 4.
"Nothing New New" is a leak from my new recordings at Dub Narcotic. I just couldn't wait in sharing the vibe on this recording. I have to redo the vocals, drums, and guitar because I don't believe I was relaxed enough recording them. Maybe that's why I find myself comfortable enough to share-- because this version will ne'er see the light of day otherwise...
ABOUT MYSELF
I live in the Anacortes, WA. I perform often at the Department of Safety which is our all ages venue in Anacortes. I spend a lot of time traveling and playing shows. Sometimes I think I am a professional driver with a musical hobby. And also I love to record music and sounds of all types. A fortunate father and happy husband, the struggle that I have in life revolves around missing my family when on traveling. But for now, my family tours with me, we all go to Europe for some time traveling with Angelo, Kimya and Panda
ARMS SPREAD WIDE:
Please peruse the Kelp Lunacy website. I've uploaded more than 80 songs to it of mine and KLAPS affiliates, for you to please enjoy at any time: Kelp Lunacy Advanced Plagiarism Society. KLAPS is active in that I am recording and putting together the next issues in an ongoing way. But I have been sitting on the new issue "Baby Nettles" KLAPS029 for many months now. It is a compilation of songs that I recorded in the last year for different compilations I was asked to do -- a comp comp in short. KLAPS will release 12 more issues before it finishes its run of 40 releases, and I take a possibly long break from it.
TRANSPARENCY:
The downloads to almost the entire KLAPS catalogue are available right here on this myspace site via the Kelp blog above, plus some older 4-track recordings are under the other downloads blog.
FOLD:
Our new Your Heart Breaks record "Love Is A Long Dark Road/Love Is All You Need" is out now. We recorded in Dub Narcotic where I recorded "Nature's Got Away" and it is so dope. With a pretty long stint as the guitarist/bassist for Laura Veirs, I helped record on the last 3 of her recordings. They are also very good.
Also, D+ has two new releases out on Knw-Yr-Own, a retrospective greatest hits type with unreleased and live recordings and also the best album we've yet recorded called "What Is Doubt For."
ahoy there, 't was nice to see you at the fusion. nice location & warm vibes. yes, and thanks for accepting the add (i think i forgot that since a while ...). row on.
filmed by hideyuki katsumata who also filmed promo animation of Little dragon (fortune) from Sweden. our new album is also available by CD and MP3(itunes music store)
Oh, what a night with Blau & Blau in Mannheim, so worth the trip from Frankfurt. It is great fun to see your enormous musical abilities at work. I love your voice and your sweet personality. Thank you!
hey karl! i met you in Brighton with my girlfriend Lolly, we'd just missed your performance but, had a little chat with you after... it was great to meet you, i just watched a recording of you playing stream of ganders at union chapel, we missed out... take care
i've seen you friday at maia and i just loved it! i was a little bit in a hurry soo i could not stay in the end and buy you a cd and congratulate you! soo here i am! (:
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