turn your speakers down.

Catching up on YouTube's collection of Japanese noise. This is from 1993, which was a year after Hijokaidan and K.K. Null and everyone else on the Dry Lungs V compilation erased whatever personal musical boundaries I'd drawn up to that point.  I embed this video b/c I couldn't embed this one. 

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disconnection.

My rider very specifically states that all performance photos of me must be taken from the same POV.

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the family that plays together.

The Family Tapes had their first gig in early January. Was it....fun? Yes.

Was it....good? I think it was probably OK. I mean I have the recording, but it doesn't sound like music yet: instead I'm just trying to figure out what I'm doing to see if I should congratulate myself or set myself aflame.

Actually figuring out what I'm doing is pretty easy on bits like this next one, because I'm playing the role of disruptor. But I think in general it became clear that we can't continue to Just Let Things Happen, we're just not getting diverse enough results: we need some structure. Here's the first 4 minutes of the show, wherein I demonstrate me some handheld amplifier technique.

The Family Tapes: The Shyboy Opening (10MB).

So you see what I mean. We're taking some steps to try and force ourselves into new territory: we're doing some writing and we're working on getting some external composers interested in writing for Family Tapes...which will either fix us or break us for good. The latter would be untimely, yo: we just made disquiet.com's Best of 2008 list.

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mirabai brawl.

This MP3 represents a couple of failures. It's a pretty uninformative recording, the music is barely audible. And it's the first song in a set that was dedicated to victims of violence around the world, only to have an actual fight break out in the audience a bit later: punches, screaming, ejections, broken glass, the works.

But: the music had some really beautiful moments, and you can almost tell from this recording.

LLL @ Zaal 100, 27 November 2008.



Louise Landes Levi: voice
Hilary Jeffery: trombone
Rozemarie Heggen: double bass
Mark Morse: 9-string acoustic guitar + ebow

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detritus.

Above: LYSN in Berlin, approaching the limits of our tolerance for promo photos.

Below: Ongoing warts-and-all documentation of the summer and fall's efforts, for better or for worse.

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The Family Tapes. Rehearsal Recording. June 2008.

"Funnel Cloud"

"Machine Oil"

"Mutiny"

"Harakiri"

• Alfredo Genovesi: guitar
  
• Jeroen Kimman: guitar
  
• Jasper Stadhouders: guitar
  
• Raphael Vanoli: guitar
  
• Mark Morse: guitar
  

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LYSN live at the ADM Festival, Amsterdam: "A Drone Moment". 31 August 2008.

• Hilary Jeffery: trombone, tromboscillator
  
• Alfredo Genovesi: guitar
  
• Charlotte Cegarra: voice
  
• Seamus Cater: harmonica
  
• Mark Morse: guitar
  

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sleepgunner live in Kikker Theater, Utrecht. 24 Sept 2008.

"New Partner Waltz". (Mark: main melody, tremelo gtr; Jeroen: tele solo)

"Lorene" (Jeroen: ebow/slide, non-slide melody; Mark: ebow/harmonizer, slide melody)

• Jeroen Kimman: guitar
  
• Mark Morse: guitar

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