Category: Old Scrolls: Misc. Recordings
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After the Show This is a new track by Star Witness, featuring Fern Capella on lead vox and Chris Allen on drums and producing, plus Kenny Karales on bass, Trevor Oswalt on keys and me on viola. Check out the website at myspace.com/starwitness.
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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…
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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…
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Ethiopia Soca Let It Go Mother These are the best three tracks off of the short-lived 56th Street ensemble’s one recording. The reggae / West African group was comprised of Saskia Pretorius on lead vocals and guitar, me on viola, violin and mandocaster, KT Rusch on bass and Patrice Nassalang on percussion — plus contributions…
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Jester’s Fun Down Something You Could Use Amy Rohan — sister to Dave Rohan, who played drums with me in Moriarty — recruited me to sing backup vocals and play violin and acoustic mandolin on her debut CD, “Jar Full of Pennies,” which got some critical acclaim. Here are a few tracks that I helped…
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Ritual Blues Must Be Milwaukee Summer I Like You “Ritual Blues” comes from a live compilation CD called “Live At The Nomad,” and was recorded live at the Nomad World Pub on Brady Street. The track was penned by Reg Owens and His Orchestra and released way, way back on 45. I think it conveys…
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Theca “Theca” is Track #9 on Signaldrift, a.k.a. Franz Buchholz’s debut album 060, released by Outward Music Company in the late 1990s. I play violin briefly on the experimental low-fi track, all of seven minutes long. You can check out more Signaldrift or buy the album at http://www.myspace.com/signaldrift. Buchholz and his brother Jason, Hans and…
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Tickle Your Cattails “Tickle your Cattails” was produced by Miri and Darka Stebivka, under the name Mode M, for their compliation album Church of the Get Down, a tribute album dedicated to Scott and Sherry Pendarvis. The Pendarvis family owns the Pendarvis Farm, on which the renowned Portland-area music festival Pickathon is held each year.…
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Defeat This was the second track on BoDeans lead singer Sammy Llanas’ extremely dark solo album with Jim Eannelli. Recorded in 1998 under the name Absinthe — a supposedly psychoactive liqueur — at Llanas’ funky studio on Milwaukee’s South Side, it was called “A Good Day to Die.” I played violin and mandolin, directed through…
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