The Starry Tides is film composer Dave Merson Hess, and Jess Roberts... Past and present TST collaborators include the following talented people: Justin Duryee-Taber (The Moth Pan, ex-An Ideal For Living, ex-Deafwing), Jeff Lee (Good Old Neon, Bang Bang Shoot Shoot, Hot Ensign, ex-Up Up Down Down), Scotty "Hi-Fi" Kramer (my favorite producer), Mark Carpenter (Striped Shirt Math Team, Cat League, Digital Softcore Records), Jason Perez (ex-Carta), Kent Conrad (novelist and some-time glam rock microstar), and Nick Papac (ex-Deafwing; distinguished professor of experimental sounds...much love always).
Influences
songstress-composer dorothy merson, j.l.r., bishop norman williams, fellow kscr alums, the velvet f-ing underground, lee perry, this heat, u.s. maple, the swirlies, air (french band), cocteau twins, yma sumac, gastr del sol, cluster, harmonia, can, king tubby, my bloody valentine, alan goraguer, goblin, the wooden stars, the blue nile, the television personalities, tara jane o'neil, the jesus & mary chain, pavement, the soft boys, angels of light, sonic youth, ganger, califone, american analog set, yo la tengo, brian eno, matmos, boards of canada, owls, blonde redhead, mercury rev, hood, nick drake, paddy mcaloon, mouse on mars, stereolab, ennio morricone, xtc, mark carp/digital softcore recordings, good old neon, top critters, sug(r)cane
Sounds Like
elevator to the stars (an early incarnation of TST), kosmiche musik, fridge, broken social scene, mogwai, stars of the lid, boards of canada, godspeed you black emperor, polar goldie cats, bedhead, grouper, yo la tengo, the dirty three, l'altra, notwist, harmonia, couch, slint, mono, pinback, blonde redhead, kill me tomorrow, deerhoof, windsor for the derby, deafwing, golden creme homo twin
Upcoming releases: Music from the film Presence (netaudio LP) is
completed and will be out in 2009. Two Dry Bones EP will be out Summer 2009. Seven more
tracks of home recorded post-rock.
TST COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY
03/2009 "Seaport Town" is slated to appear
on the magicsquare limited edition CD-r compilation V/A - The Grass Is Greener. 02/2009 Original music composed for the
short film "Legacy", directed by Michael Rohrbaugh. 10/2008 "Tabernacle" (attributed to TST vs. On
Holiday) is slated to appear on the Soundz From Nowhere compilation V/A
- My Digital Valentine, Vol. 2, a tribute to the
shoegazing/dreampop decade. 10/2008 Original music composed for the Drifter Pictures
feature PRESENCE. 09/2008 TST's cover of "His Life Of Academic
Freedom" is slated to appear on the Reverse Engine compilation V/A - Sneaky
Flute Moods: A Tribute To The Swirlies. 04/2008 Created 8 samples to be used as source
material for the Soundz From Nowhere compilation 8.ight
Volume 2.
03/2008 Original music composed for the short film
"Dover
Beach", directed by Carl Indriago. 08/2006One Lit Window EP
is released as RER05. Available for free download in the Reverse Engine netlabel collection
on Archive.org. Track Listing: Seaport Town, Heavy News, Don't Be A
Stranger, Three Point Turn (Mono Version), Cold Valves (For Kazu and
Alain), Passing On The Stairs, Noticeably Ill (feat. Mark Carpenter). 12/2005 "Bruxists Revolt! (Temporo-mandibular Jam)"
appears on V/A - Love & Scientific Communication,
Vol. 2 (Richmond County Archives, RCA008). 09/2005 Original music composed for the short film
"Wading
In The Fog", filmmaker Eve Moon's contribution to the School
of the Art Insitute of Chicago's Cities Unbound. 08/2005 "Guitar Improvisation", an early version of
the unreleased TST song "blanket", appears on V/A - Archive
Recordings - Volume 1, along with a slew of other songs
recorded on site at Mark Stephen Johnson's Pacific Gap Folk Music
Center. 07/2005 Original music composed for the short film
"Lonely
Pac-Man" (Dir: Eve Moon). 06/2005 "Don't Be A Stranger" appears on V/A - Love
& Scientific Communication, Vol. 1 (Richmond County
Archives, RCA004). 02/2002: elevator to the stars/The Moth Pan split CD-r. (Reverse
Engine, RER03 - OOP) 04/2002: Original music composed for the short film
"Goodbye"
(Wri/Dir: Rose O'Leary, Cinematography: Justin Taber & Ariana
Delawari). 12/2001: Original music featured in a short film by
Rebekah Wright. 04/2001: First appearance (as elevator to
the stars) on V/A - A Little Bedroom Rawkenroll
CDR (Reverse Engine, RER01 - OOP).
For French readers, un entretien avec ASMD est paru sur le Guide de Musique Classique ResMusica. Par Christophe Le Gall. http://www.resmusica.com/article_6694_entretien_a_singer_must_die_la_renaissance_d_un_groupe.html
The second installment of “My Brilliant Vocation” is now available for download. Tracks include “The New Record by My Bloody Valentine,” “Sunny Cindy Smile,” and “Sunny Cindy Smile” (Insecta Mix). Mr. D says, "...some pretty fantastic turns of phrase and, manifesting intermittently like a phenomenon, pure and beautiful insight."
this is fucking special.. would be interested in working together in some capacity. we are really trying to get composing for films but don't know where to start. the majority of our tracks are absolute mood. gonna dl your record now..
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