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TRACKER
Alternative / Indie / Ambient

"TRACKER - Scenic Burrows"

Portland, Oregon
United States

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   TRACKER: General Info
Member Since8/29/2005
Band Websitescenicburrows.com
Band MembersThe Tracker Bar B Que: Derek Trost- Skewers Todd Corbett-low end and condiments Cory Gray- Trumpet, piano and potato salad John Askew - guitars and salsa it has included visitations from: Michael Schorr, Adam Selzer, Erik Herzog, Chris Funk, Dave Harding, Paul Brainard, M. Ward, Bruce Winter, Tad Wagner, Andrew Giakumakis, John Nygren, Raymond Richards and.....
InfluencesCamper Van Beethoven, Roxy Music, The Coen Brothers, Tom Verlaine, Califone, Richard Linklater, Red Red Meat, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Black Heart Procession, Buellton, Giant Sand, Richard Buckner, Robert Fripp, MArc Ribot, the Silos, Wall of Voodoo, JOhn Parish, Polly JEan HArvey, Doug Sahm, TV on the RAdio, Townes Van Zandt, Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo, Mount Analog, Menomena, Ween, XTC, M.Ward, Jim White, Tom Waits, The Latin Playboys, Mitchell Froom, Roy Orbison, Charles Mingus, Monks of Doom, Headless Household, Kitty Wells, Tim Cullen, Erik Herzog, CAN, Suicide, Talking Heads, Frank Miller, Frank Zappa, Holy Sons, The Who, Television, Captain Beefheart, Fellini, Caffeine, Tom Petty, Steely Dan, Jon Brion...
Sounds LikeCan be found on the same picnic table as : Califone Camper Van Beethoven Sparklehorse
Record LabelFILMguerrero www.filmg.com
Type of LabelIndie




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   About TRACKER
Since 1997, Tracker has been the recording moniker for engineer / musician / label owner-worker John Askew. Following the release of AMES (the first proper Tracker album), a steady line-up took to the road. Often stopping and gathering random sorts along the way, Askew and Tracker recorded and toured and followed up AMES with the second release POLK and the third release BLANKETS: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel. NOW, Askew engineers and produces at Type Foundry Recording in Portland, operates the recording label FILMguerrero (Menomena, Mount Analog, Transmissionary Six, Manta Ray, Holy Sons, Tracker) but spends most of the time in his basement studio Scenic Burrows and a Urei LA -4. Projects he has recorded includes but is not limited to: Richmond Fontaine, Meric Long (Dodo Bird), Lara Michell, LIttle Sue, Mount Analog, Misc., Buellton, Tracker and Tad Wagner... CURRENTLY: Just finished recording albums for Wow and Flutter, The Dodos, Pt. Juncture WA, Stiff Wiff, The Skinnyz and about to start work on the new one from Petracovich and The Skinnyz. ALSO, scoring music for the film CALVIN MARSHALL due out in the FALL of 2008. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Releases: TRACKER- AMES (FILMguerrero 2001) TRACKER- POLK (FILMguerrero 2003) TRACKER- BLANKETS:Recordings for the illustrated Novel (FILMguerrero 2004) To BUY Tracker records go HERE +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ***********************This is the release sheet for the last album: Portland, OR. Tracker-Blankets is the third release to come from song/ recording-man John Askew's assemblage called Tracker. Written and produced by Askew to accompany the graphic novel Blankets by Craig Thompson, this album quietly threads it's way through Thompson's stark images of Winter and first love, and the dark, yet hopeful coming of age narrative. Following Tracker’s acclaimed cinematic, backyard epic POLK (2003), and the grainy, lo-fi first album AMES (2001), Tracker-Blankets juxtaposes the loose, dusty interiors of this pair of earlier Tracker concept albums with a more spare and cinematic instrumental record. The tracks on Blankets unravel slowly, never distracting from Thompson's drawings. While listening, the book's visuals come to the forefront of memory; the recordings perfectly provide the backdrop for the story to continue and replay. The recordings are ambient and breathing (Askew tips his hat to Brian Eno's Apollo, and Fripp/ Eno collaboration) and at times, the album shares the same sonic head-space as David Pajo's earlier Aerial M records and Yo La Tengo's Danelectro. In an era where invention, concept, and the visual seem to be rapidly dissolving in modern recordings, Blankets: Recordings for the Illustrated Novel satisfies one's need to again experience story and image meeting with music. With Thompson's graphic novel already considered a timeless, illustrated masterpeice, Tracker's soundtrack will dutifully rest by the side of Thompson's epic, as a beautiful and moving, recorded classic.After receiving massive critical praise for his 2003 graphic novel Blankets, (Harvey award winner for Best Graphic Novel of 2003) comic artist/ writer Craig Thompson approached Tracker's John Askew to do a "soundtrack" for his book. With the song writing/ production duties accomplished by Askew in his Scenic Burrows, Craig Thompson designed the package with all original art to suppliment the book Blankets. The package is hand crafted and assembled by Stumptown Printers and Pinball printers in Portland, OR.

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May 14 2008 1:07 PM

Shadow Folk





Jan 29 2008 9:04 AM

You have made some really great music. The tracks you've posted sound like a film score. Thanks for the add.
Carlos and Earl





Dec 30 2007 12:13 AM

dear john, thanks SO much for all of the lovin during your mixing days at Flora. earl and i have really liked getting to know you and hearing the hot jams! xo
Juli Star





Dec 28 2007 7:57 PM

Hi brother Johnny, I hope you are well!!
Please vote for me online Dec. 28 to Jan. 1
www.WeHoAwards.org
"Friend of the Community" Nominee Juli Star Askew
DON'T FORGET TO VOTE FOR ME and of course also vote for:
The Life Group LA (Community Organization)
Legendary Bingo or POZ Life Weekend (Community Event)
Jeffery Bowman aka Bingo Boy (Community Volunteer)
and Gil Kaan (photographer)
Cosmosis Graphics (Digital Artist)
Shorty's (Salon)
The Normandie Room (Woman's Bar)
Marika Tjelios (Female Bartender)
Tracy Ward (Business Manager)

Thanks!! and pass it on so tons of people vote this year! The event is Jan. 21 if you want to come!
Cathimini





Dec 26 2007 11:37 AM

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Jacob Lee Avery





Dec 7 2007 4:54 PM

I'm stalking you!
good times studio





Nov 18 2007 12:16 PM

Jesse Rhodes





Nov 15 2007 9:55 AM

condominiums don't make me happy. still one of my favorite lines ever.
Oldtimer





Nov 7 2007 11:23 AM

hey, my bff emily thinks you are pretty cool and cute as well, add her on MSN and talk to her please! her msn address is emily24platinum@hotmail.com
Alyssa





Oct 22 2007 4:41 PM

Hey, I just want to thank you. You're album Blankets has helped me through endless all-nighters leading to my high school graduation. I just recently realized you're from Portland, so I hope you have some kind of performance soon, so I can go.
Much love =]
Beany Avocardo





Oct 14 2007 12:39 AM

Cathimini





Oct 1 2007 9:22 AM

John, that night would have been complete if you had been here, in Paris with Craig, Danny, Justin, Brent. If you want to know more, check some photos on my blog.

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Alyssa Kyrie





Sep 7 2007 1:59 PM

Dude! When is the santa barbara band reunion festival happening with you, wasted tape, creature feature, toad, cory s, spencer the gardner, brad is sex.......?
Colch-ón





Jul 6 2007 4:33 AM

Hey John & familia,... hope everything is allright in & out of Portland,... Wish you all a nice summertime & hopefully I..ll get a film G - update,... Regards to all,... Frank
Fumble





Jul 6 2007 12:07 AM

dJ ¡Zm





Jun 26 2007 2:54 PM

as they say on the streets "YEE YEE" .....btw i like the word burrows, i like when ferrets burrow or pets, i like to burrow in my blanket.....yeah ;) haha
Kaufmann





May 31 2007 12:00 PM

Hey, just in case you haven't seen Colbert's break-away korean pop song yet.




mustafio





May 11 2007 6:43 AM

So it's a capital 'T' that's been hanging you up? Don't worry, it's only paint. And paint is easy to remove. If I was your mother and you were my daughter, you would be sleeping already. I wear these pajamas only on weekends. And you think that's healthy? People don't listen to their body until it's too late. I am not dramatic, I am merely being practical.
RASE





Apr 25 2007 12:58 AM



Fernando Viciconte





Apr 14 2007 5:58 PM

yo you know how you see all the comments for free 500$ target card....they really work lol, i put my email in twice and today
two 500$ target cards came in th mail LOL i didint think it was real but they came , i know you dont belive me lol so
i took a pic , try it out and tell me if it works for you...took 3 days for them to come..



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The Transmissionary Six





Apr 14 2007 1:58 PM

Doin' the EC for the kids at the 826!

mustafio





Apr 14 2007 4:17 AM

After last night's lecture, someone commented to me that I must be an army brat because I had such fantastic teeth. Such teeth, he said, could only be the result of good breeding and access to the finest dental care. I explained that though I descend from a long line of Bulgarian nobility, when I was a boy people were still having infected teeth removed by a donkey tied to a rope. Happenstance, I explained to him, is the main reason behind Mustafio's distinguished countenance.
clark





Apr 4 2007 7:15 AM

TRACKER...I met some of your friends last night in the John Weinland band. Good people. Good musica. Stay on track.
testface





Apr 1 2007 9:41 AM

man that live NOVA is soooo delish!
Al Berkowitz Band





Mar 4 2007 6:35 AM

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¡¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!
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PD: Lo del nº de teléfono y dirección es para entrar en el sorteo de 3 abonos y para evitar votos duplicados.
RASE





Feb 14 2007 2:21 PM

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The Great Cotton Catastrophe





Feb 7 2007 2:10 PM

Wooowee. I tell ya, it's been a spell since I dun kicked off my boots and spit up some dust. I long for the shimmy that escaped my soul, and look foward to a wide-span, hoe down with the likes of this world. Keep on truckin my friends.

-Cotton
Orie





Feb 6 2007 7:26 PM

Orie





Feb 6 2007 7:24 PM

The Great Cotton Catastrophe





Feb 5 2007 9:38 PM

I done been through the ringer again my friends. It looks as though I've brought a heap of trouble upon myself through that damned yarn of good intentions. This darned self reflection is taxin' my soul. I look onward to days of the new, when this heart of mine is well represented by the skins that house it.

-Cotton
The Great Cotton Catastrophe





Feb 4 2007 12:48 AM

Yessir it's time for that good ol' tyme slang slappin. Been a long while this week I been thinkin bout' the harder things. Truth is, when you stop to look at em', the hard things is a bunch of simple things tied up in a big nasty knot. So here's to a week of untyin' knots.

- Cotton
olson





Feb 1 2007 2:59 PM

i love TRACKER
Cathimini





Jan 12 2007 2:07 PM

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Coleen McMahon





Jan 9 2007 7:00 PM

THANKS FOR BEING MY FRIEND!
Emrys Hanley