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Author Archives: Levi Fuller
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Afrocop – “MOAB Shield”
Afrocop has been delighting Seattle with their idiosyncratically spacey, dubby, experimental grooves for several years now, but this is their first time gracing a volume of Ball of Wax, and I couldn’t be more delighted to have them aboard. I … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Peter Colclasure – “Long Form 1”
In this space I recently sang the praises of Peter Colclasure’s compositions for piano – which, as far as I know, are usually composed and performed in the traditional way of writing down music, and then playing it. “Long Form … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Steven Arntson – “The Squirrel”
A squirrel. A concertina. This is not a pair that should make for 11-plus minutes of captivating music – even if you figure in the fact that we’re talking about our native Pine Squirrel in general, and not one particular … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Andrew Weathers – “Walk Backwards a Lightning, Rattle Down the Sky”
And now we pare it down to just the guitar. Longtime Ball of Wax friend Andrew Weathers beamed in this transmission, recorded live at Stanford’s mighty KZSU, from his newish home in Littlefield, Texas. Iit builds slowly, as longer works … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: great unwashed luminaries – Sunspace Quasar (for Miles)
My word, has it really been almost six years since we’ve heard from great unwashed luminaries? As far as I can tell, that name last graced a volume of Ball of Wax on #28, our excellent Dance Party volume. (Although … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Freeway Park – “Paintings of Famous Satanists”
Freeway Park make their long-anticipated Ball of Wax debut with “Paintings of Famous Satanists,” an expansive, extra-dirgey version of their brand of noisy, dissonant rock woven together with the prose-based (but never prosaic) verbal arts of vocalist Graham Isaac. The … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 Songs: Nachthexen – “NightWitch III/draft”
It’s been a while since I gushed about local guitar hero Bill Horist, and even longer since he graced a volume of Ball of Wax with his guitarical prowess, so I’m excited that both are happening again right now! I’ve … Continue reading
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Ball of Wax 51 Songs: autOaudiO – “Belzinbox”
Ball of Wax 51 is going to be quite a long ride, so I thought it would be nice to get off to a mellow start. If you’ve been to a Ball of Wax show in the past few years … Continue reading
Ball of Wax 51 (Long Songs): March 9th at Substation!
Are you ready for this? I’m not sure if I am. Volume 51 will be, by far, the longest volume of Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly to date. For the first time, I’ve decided to go download-only to enable the … Continue reading
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Submit to Ball of Wax 51: Loooooooong sooooooooooooooongs!
With apologies for the relatively short notice, I wanted to make sure I publicly announced our call for submissions for Ball of Wax 51: Long songs! I love (and sometimes make) long-form music, but when I get a lot of … Continue reading
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