Author: Thachmo

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Music Meditation podcast with East Forest

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I just did a podcast with Trevor Oswalt, a keyboardist, producer and vocalist who maintains the Eastforest.org website. It’s titled “Uncoiling,” and clocks in at 16 minutes. Great stuff for meditation, driving, relaxing, taking a bath, chillaxing. I played violin and Fender mandocaster on the piece. Trevor played keyboards, sang and added various effects and other percussion instruments, with loop pedals. You can go to eastforest.org or to the audio link: http://www.losttricks.com/eastforest/SoundHealingBites/Podcasts/SoundHealingBites025Uncoiling.mp3 Continue reading Music Meditation podcast with East Forest

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“Safe” by Star Witness

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From left to right, Fern Capella, Trevor Oswalt, Chris Allen, me, Kenny Karales. Star Witness-Safe This track was produced by Chris Allen, who also plays drums. Fern Capella sings lead and wrote the song, while Kenny Karales plays bass guitar, Trevor Oswalt plays keyboards and I play violin/viola. Released June 15, 2010. Check out the band’s website at reverbnation.com/starwitness Continue reading “Safe” by Star Witness

Counterpunch

A Cheesehead’s Musings on the Sunday NYT (Counterpunch)

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Here’s a little media criticism I wrote for the underground / activist website Counterpunch.org in 2004: America is a big, gorgeous country. Thank the heavens, also diverse. If the fate of all Americans is intertwined in some way, it’s also a good bet that the world looks different from Wisconsin than from New York. Now, this is no diatribe on the evils of the East Coast or the insular politics of the D.C. “beltway.” Here in the land of Brett Favre and Ahman Green, we embrace our friends on the coasts, in the south and in the mountains. But honesty … Continue reading A Cheesehead’s Musings on the Sunday NYT (Counterpunch)

Adbusters

Belize (Adbusters)

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This is a piece I wrote about Belize, a tiny Central American nation with a horrendously high homicide rate, for Adbusters, a graphic art-oriented, activist magazine published out of Vancouver, B.C. My own trip to Belize in 2000 was marred by a double homicide right outside my hotel room, which may or may not have been connected to my friend’s wallet being stolen that same night — after we went to the only disco on Caye Caulker. Luckily, the thief left my friend’s passport, otherwise we might still be there. Continue reading Belize (Adbusters)

Old Scrolls: Misc. Recordings

Love Live Music Collective – Stringzology

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Thief May Enter Growth In Four Directions Dimbale Nothing Here are four of the best tracks off my 2003 self-produced album, which I did under the moniker Love Live Music Collective, and entitled “Stringzology.” Personally recorded digital sound samples from a huge peace protest in Washington, D.C. are woven throughout and the album features some of Milwaukee’s many talented musicians. Contact me at thacherschmid@hotmail.com if you’re interested in buying a copy. Continue reading Love Live Music Collective – Stringzology

Old Scrolls: Misc. Recordings

Sigmund Snopek III

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Whistle Song Hall of Godcar These two tunes, “Whistle Song” and “Hall of Godcar,” on Sigmund Snopek III’s double-disc rock opera “Trinity Seasseizesees,” represent my one and only professional recording gig as a, um, whistler. When I did this gig with Snopek in his cluttered East Side apartment recording studio in 1999, I learned that when you record the sound of your whistle you have to point your lips away from the microphone so the sound isn’t all wind noise. Snopek, who played keyboards with the Violent Femmes for a minute and is an excellent flute and other wind instrument … Continue reading Sigmund Snopek III