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The Arrangement
03.01.05Summer of 2002 I escaped Chinatown to live in an apartment in Oak Square, Brighton, with a couple, Eric Boomhower and Ilona Virostek. They were both musicians and in a band called Ossiander (w/ Frank Aveni and Andy Abrahamson). Eric and Andy were also in The In Out back then. One day I heard some [...]
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L. Contra Band
02.01.05L. Contra was Colin Asquith’s was personal musical moniker and from time to time he’d ask Thommy Saraceno and/or myself to lend a hand with recordings and live performances. The first such collaboration was for the Villa Magica release, Christmas in Roxbury EP (2002). How exactly this record came to be was always somewhat of a [...]
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Fiddleback
07.01.03Sometime in 2002 while I was living in Chinatown Luke Rocha, an old friend from Kansas City, sent me some song fragments on 4-track tapes. The project was called Arrangements in Costume. The elements he sent were sequences of various sampled material and synthesizer tracks which I then added to and mixed into cohesive songs. [...]
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The Arm
12.01.00The Arm rose from the ashes of The Armada (Colin Asquith, Thommy Saraceno and myself). We recorded four songs at Folsom Ave. using mics checked out from SMFA, Thanksgiving weekend, 2000. Mixes and overdubs were done a couple years later at Oni Gallery in Chinatown. Colin’s drawing and the songs below offer a better explanation [...]
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The Armada
06.01.00During the fall of 1999 Colin and I began making music with another SMFA classmate, Thommy Saraceno, inspired by D.E.V.O., mummies, seances, and aliens. The band name was lifted from the Kids In The Hall skit “Rod Torfulson’s Armada.” For the most part we existed as a three-piece, though we rehearsed a few times early on [...]
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Future’s Past
06.01.99Maybe a year or so after moving to Massachusetts I began making music with Colin Asquith, a roommate and high school friend of the person I credit for introducing me to anyone I know in New England, Noah Peffer. This would be the first of many musical endeavors with Colin. We banged out song ideas, [...]
