Coming up next year

I've talked to Gavin from Stickfigure, and it looks like they'll be putting out the next Warning Light album Wild Silver. So hopefully if I stay on track, it will be out sometime next Spring. My live partner Allen (Feast of Violet) will probably appear on a couple of tracks, as will a few other mystery guests. This album is definitely a bit more "soundtrack"-y than straight up droney, but there's a little bit of all of it in there. Plus, maybe a piano ballad.

I'm also pressing a small amount of Fallow CDrs on my Beacon Light Communications boutique label, so message me if you'd like a copy.

Also, there's a tape version of the Lotus Plaza / Warning Light / Young Again show at the Eyedrum floating around. It was reviewed in Creative Loafing here. I have no idea how you get one, although getting in touch with Robby at Eyedrum would probably be the place to start. The cover apparently looks like this (although I have yet to see an actual copy):

Fallow

The Fallow album is finally done, and people can listen to and download it at the Warning Light Bandcamp. The player is below:

Upcoming

hey folks:

We're playing a show with Young Again (Seth B from Living Rooms) and the Runaway Five (Dan Wakefield of being Dan Wakefield fame and Lockett from Lotus Plaza). It's pretty exciting.

Also, I've talked to some people about mastering Fallow. We'll see. At the rate I'm going, Wild Silver will be done before Fallow (which is sad, because the video for Fallow seems to be taking even longer). Oh well.

Fallow

I thought the work on the Fallow soundtrack was done, but some new ideas randomly overtook me so I'm back to it again. More beats, more drones, more everything. The cameos from other musicians still haven't materialized, but the album is getting denser and more varied.

Oh, and thanks Ohmpark for the kind review of Further On. I appreciate it.

New happenings going into Summer 2010

Well, the album is finally out.

And Fallow is finally done being recorded, sitting on the shelf, waiting for someone to release it in some form.

Which leaves me with... well, for a time really nothing. I've been working on new music with my band Roman Photos, so I haven't thought too much about Warning Light. But then last weekend, I got out my old Casio CZ 3000 and started working on new music. I haven't really used that synthesizer much since Warning Light 2, so it's strange to be playing it again. But now that I know more about electronics, I know how to play the thing. So I'm working on a new more upbeat piece of work called Wild Silver for now. I have no idea what will come of it, a couple of songs for the internet or a whole album. Who knows. I'll have a song finished and put up sometime soon.

2010 junk thoughts

Well well. With Further On out, I have the time to doodle on a myriad of projects. The full band I'm in, Roman Photos is playing a bunch of shows and trying to get two 7"s done this Spring.

Work on Fallow, the next full length Warning Light album is still going on... I've been juggling ideas to round out the collection, but I can say it will most likely be the ten songs I've been working with for the past seven months or so. The album is shaping up to be about 50 minutes to one hour, and it has a bunch of different sounds and textures.

I've been talking to Allen and we're going to work on a professional sounding Warning Light Ensemble full length as well. Hopefully we'll have some major work on that done by summer.

And thanks to KUCI for putting my album in the top 30 for the week. Exciting stuff.

Fallow work

Today I recorded and mixed two new songs that I had been mulling over for a while for the Fallow album: a short piece with pads and synths called "Sensing Backwards" and a longer drone synth number I'm calling "Pools of Time" for now. I managed to get the edits done on "Awaiting the Gates" and fix up a basic tracklisting. The album is still short a song, but is nearly 50 minutes as is (people want that?).

Hopefully, this next one won't take as long as Further On to come out.

New work

Update on a release date for the Further On CD on Stickfigure Recordings ... they have been talking to me about having it ready to go in January. Yep, January 2010, unless something crazy comes up. And I might play a couple of live demonstrations of certain tracks off the album. I'll keep you updated.

With work on Fallow progressing along, I thought I would post one of the more experimental tracks for your enjoyment. It's a nearly five minute droner that is comprised of found sound and a manipulated synth loop called "Walking Down Your Street":

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