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Category Archives: Recorded Music
The Foghorns Release To the Stars on the Wings of a Pig Tomorrow at the Tractor
I am a bad friend/colleague/listener. I’ve had access to (our own Bart Cameron‘s) The Foghorns‘ excellent new album To the Stars on the Wings of a Pig for a few weeks now, and I’ve listened to it a handful of … Continue reading
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The Way It Is Returns to Seattle!
Anyone with a glancing familiarity with Ball of Wax and/or this blog is probably aware that I am inordinately fond of the music of Michael Sanchez, most of which has been made under the name of The Way It Is … Continue reading
New Music from Deelay Ceelay: Sunset Drumsets
Our Portland friends Deelay Ceelay (whom you might have heard on Ball of Wax Volume 14) have at long last released a full-length album. I’m checking it out right now, and Sunset Drumsets is a fantastic summer listen, loaded with … Continue reading
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Recommended Reading: Helen DeWitt – The Last Samurai
Paul assigned Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai to Joshua Morrison. I just finished reading it, and this reading completes my project of reading all of the books assigned for Songs about Books. First I’d like to say that I am … Continue reading
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Songs about Books: Hear 5 Songs and Pre-order Now!
Three weeks from today we will celebrate the release of Ball of Wax 25: Songs about Books with a very special concert at the Fremont Abbey (have you gotten your tickets yet?). We’ve been talking about this project for a … Continue reading
Album Review: Klak Tik – Must We Find a Winner
Klak Tik – Must We Find a Winner (2010, Safety First Records) Klak Tik’s textured Must We Find a Winner has a distinct taste for the theatrical, majestically carried out for just under an hour. The London-based band have produced … Continue reading
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Album Review: Shenandoah Davis – The Company We Keep
Shenandoah Davis – The Company We Keep (2011, self-released) Shenandoah Davis is a Ball of Wax alumnus (see volumes 16 and 18). In fact, she’s the first example I point to for the beauty of the concept of such a … Continue reading
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Album Review: Carlos Forster – Family Trees
Carlos Forster – Family Trees (2011, HUSH Records) Carlos Forster once led a fantastic, woefully unheralded band called For Stars, about which I’ve written wistfully elsewhere. It’s been 7 years since the release of For Stars’ swan song, It Falls Apart, … Continue reading
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Bright Archer’s Hidden Systems Out Now!
Bright Archer, née Johanna Kunin (heard on Ball of Wax Volumes 2, 4, and the forthcoming 25/Songs about Books) has at long last released her beautiful second album, Hidden Systems. It was recorded a couple years ago, and I’ve been … Continue reading
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[glocal scene] Album Review: Keith Haman – Camera
Keith Haman – Camera (2011, Melotone) Keith Haman hails from Oceanside, California, but resides in New York City, where he is now releasing albums with Brooklyn label/rehearsal studio Melotone. I’ve met Keith before, playing with the now defunct alt-country band … Continue reading
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