I edited my profile with a bottle of whiskey and a pack of camels.
always fighting convention can be a drag. i aspire to play pretty songs but not too pretty...
also, i made a record last summer with Mr. Fen Ikner, at his delicious-delicious studios, called "It's A Chemical Drag But It's Not That Bad"
.... it is on compact disc and costs $10 if you would like to own it.
This Summer i made a recording with Mark Nosowicz(and a cast of many fine buffalo musicians)at his Harvest Sum Studios in Ochard Park, NY. It is entitled "City Where You Love To Lose Your Mind" i would love for you to hear it 'n shit. if you can't afford the purchase and want to have it, shoot me a message and we can wheel and deal. it goes for ten bucks.
here's a good chunk of a review from buffalo art rag (artvoice):
It’s not punk, but it’s punk at what it does. With this second solo release in 2008, City Where You Love to Lose Your Mind—a fitting title in this town where we can’t stick to one thing at time—finds Gordon’s artful yet unpretentious songcraft honed to suggest him as a stylistic skylarker: unafraid to etch out works with wordy twists that turn about in acoustic backdrops, proving and fulfilling a vision of psych-Americana, glam rock panache, and, yes, that punk aesthetic at the core, and keeping it all on an even keel.
Gordon is a great writer and his lyrics veer into fractured abstractions, but the stories he’s telling never get lost in the mix. He comes with winsome but fragile vocal style borrowed from Jonathan Richman, who is clearly referenced on the wonderful “if the atomic bomb started rock and roll” song “Stephen Goss Is a Good Friend-a Mine.” His voice sounds as if it might break into pieces at any moment. Add to that elements from the offbeat mod-folk of early solo Bowie and the elegant mystification of Robyn Hitchcock. With help from producer/engineer Mark Nosowicz and a cast of varied musicians, Gordon does a lot with just a little, taking simple, stripped-back arrangements and presenting songs with a grandiose quality on their own terms. “Early Evening” is a bittersweet, twilight-eyed slice of naiveté that is made complete by spacious guitar, piano, and harmonica, all coalescing to create a sense of careless hopefulness, in which Gordon pines the line, “We really don’t care about tomorrow brings.” “Another New Day” sounds like the Velvet Underground playing a Beach Boys song with a horn player. The compact (one minute, 45 seconds) title track, “Taking blood, guts and gore to settle the score/Tell us less/Tell us more,” ultimately ends in a beautifully calamitous kitchen sink coda of instruments and noise. Less or more: Nick Gordon’s seemingly said it all.
—donny kutzbach (ARTVOICE)
Thanks! None of the songs on the myspace player are from the new album but they're in the same vein. I look forward to hearing the new stuff you're working on- keep me posted. Hope to see you at the show in Jan!
you got anything coming up this month? if not i think we should put together an x-mass show for sure, thers nothing like drinking 100 beers and playing music for the holidays haha
hello mr. gordon, this would be eric from pittsburgh. how have you been? i just got a recording done and put a few songs on my myspace and was wondering if you could take a listen and let me know what you think. thanks a bunch my friend.
I wish in you kind regards for your future to be shaped by positive change and awareness. Love and Light,
Teaadora
Je souhaite dans vous leségards de type pour votre avenir être formés par le changement et la conscience positives.
L'amour et Allume,
Teaadora
Here is the upcoming tour
with Bethany Dinsick
(myspace.com/bethanydinsick):
Baltimore/ Philly/ NYC/ Mass Tour
Voici la tournée suivante avec Bethany Dinsick (myspace.com/bethanydinsick):
Baltimore/Philly/NYC/la Tournée de Masse
Nov 23 @ 8 Baltimore
The Pet Cemetary w/ King Cloud, and Boy Ghost
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204485969902
Nov 24 @ 7 Philadelphia
Germ Books (germbooks.com)
2005 Frankford Ave germbooks.com (215) 423-5002
Nov 25 @ 7 NYC (lower east side)
Recoup Lounge
210 Rivington between Pitt and Ridge Sts, Lower East Side, Manhattan
Nov 28 @ 7 Lowell, Massachusetts
Accidental Festival @ Gallery 119 (w/ Quilt, Ladderlegs, etc)
119 Chelmsford, Lowell Massachusetts
Nov 29 @ 8 Boston (Jamaica Plains)
The New Points North House (w/ Coyote Kolb)
14 Sunny Side, Jamaica Plains, Boston, Massachusetts
Nov 30 @ 10 Cambridge, Massachusetts
Middle East (ZuZu) (w/ Coyote Kolb)
474 Mass Ave, Central Square, Cambridge
Dec 1 @ TBA Northhampton, Massachussets
Dec 2 @ 8 Brooklyn, NY
Death by Audio w/ Invisible Circle and Toothache
49 South 2nd St between Wythe and Kent, Brooklyn NYC
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