Aquarius Review

The free download of "Imaginary Psychology" is finished. A few hard copies will be available at shows. Most of this batch has been shipped to Europe.

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Aquarius Records was kind enough to give me permission to repost their review of Aaron Sheppard's "Leverage."

"So many CDrs come our way on what seems like a daily basis, but it isn't often that one of them immediately stops us in our tracks on first listen. These seven tracks by Aaron Sheppard have done just that. Haunting psychedelic solo guitar that manages to be both meditative, spacey, and focused all at the same time. We had no idea who Sheppard was when this first showed up, but his playing won us over immediately. Like Roy Montgomery and James Blackshaw conjuring up a soundtrack for a dazed afternoon, Leverage also has moments that make us think of vintage Robert Fripp, the beauty of Heldon's second album Allez-Teia, as well as the recent mind blowing output of Matt Baldwin that we've raved about in the last year. Alternating between more grounded finger-picking tracks to more melting and stretched out sounds, this is by far one of the most engaging and rewarding solo guitar records we've heard in so long.

We actually want to go and on about how much this record has been moving us, but the CDr is limited to 50 copies, so we should probably stop talking now and give you the chance to grab one of these before they are gone for good..."

Limited to 50 hand-numbered CDrs on the Psychic Arts label.

Order your copy here:

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/

Harold Budd

Plays March 2nd in San Francisco as part of the Other Minds music festival. More info:

https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/performances/music/other-minds-17/

I will be jealous of whoever goes to this.

Night Night

Conrad poster is gone...

A flattering review of Aaron Sheppard's "Leverage" is up at the Aquarius site:

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/cat/newest.html

Will be gone before you know it.

Self portrait - Patrick Kwon with Polaroid of OJ by Andy Warhol. Courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Auf Dem Schwarzen Kanal

This is a poster that I made of Conrad Schnitzler and it's been up in the different places I've lived over the past few years. Can't tell you how many days and nights I've spent under this eternal gaze. Recently I found something to go in it's place and I'm going to let it go. Send me your mailing address and I'll drop it in a mailing tube for you. All you have to do is pay for postage. A large format photocopy, roughly two-by-two feet.

baldwinunlimited@gmail.com

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Astrologer, author and filmmaker, Antero Alli is using my version of de Hartmann/Gurdjieff's "Bokarian Dervish" in his new film, Flamingos. I would be at the February 29th premiere in Oakland but I will be on tour at that time. Looking forward to seeing it when I get back. More info here:

http://www.verticalpool.com/

PS - As for astrological insight I can't give someone a higher recommendation.

Ice Land

Ice Land One

Cohort

Ohr

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I often see Ethan Miller on my daily circumambulation of the lake - he jogs, I walk. His band, Howlin' Rain has put together a mix of songs representing their 10 favorite vinyl releases of 2011 and in it they included "Pellegrino" from Night In The Triangle. It also includes a short review of the record. Find it here:

http://artistmixtapes.com/2011/12/23/volume-57-howlin-rain-top-10-albums-released-on-vinyl-in-2011/

An honor. Thanks guys.

Also, I've just put together 50 more copies of the Imaginary Psychology CDr which will be for sale at Aquarius Records in SF and at live shows. The free download is only going to be available for a little while longer. Grab one before I remove the link.

http://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-psychology

Enjoy,

MB

Shows

Monday, February 6th

Communion:

Entrance (solo)
Tim Cohen (solo)
Matt Baldwin
Hot Lunch
Ready Steady

At Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco. Doors at 7:30pm.
$10 adv / $12 at the door.

Also, I've updated the Night In The Triangle tour dates in the previous post with additions and cancellations:

2/18 - Macondo Bar, Barcelona
2/19 - Figueres, Girona
2/21 - L'Episode, Toulouse
3/4 - Club Uganda, Jerusalem
3/5 - Noon lecture on new music at Musrara Art School, Jerusalem
3/5 - Levontin, Tel Aviv
3/7 - Cave 12, Geneva
3/9 - La Chaise, Paris
3/10 - Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt
3/12 - Birthday, London
3/13 - Cellar Bar, Poole
3/15 - 12 Bar, London
3/16 - The Joinery, Dublin
3/17 - St. Patrick's Delirium Tremens (private)
3/18 - Plug'd Records, Cork

A Stick Boy Sampler

 Five of The Undead

 Cthulu Mass

 Cthulu Mass 2

 Cryptic Cross Album Cover

 Cloud Specter

Stick Boy

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A taste of Stick's imagery in anticipation of his debut Cryptic Cross record. Available soon as a CDr on Psychic Arts.

All artwork by Stick (Sean Lyons).

Atmospheres

Upcoming MB European/Middle Eastern tour dates:

2/18 - Macondo Bar, Barcelona2/19 - Mariscal L'Estartit, Girona
2/21 - L'Episode, Toulouse
3/4 - Club Uganda, Jerusalem
3/5 - Levontin, Tel Aviv
3/7 - Cave 12, Geneva
3/9 - La Chaise, Paris
3/10 - Kunstencentrum Belgie, Hasselt
3/12 - My birthday (in transit...)
3/13 - TBA, Poole
3/15 - 12 Bar, London
3/16 - The Joinery, Dublin
3/17 - St. Patrick's Delirium Tremens (private)
3/18 - TBA, Cork

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Also, Aaron Sheppard's Leverage is up for audition at the Psychic Arts site:

http://psychicarts.bandcamp.com/album/leverage

I dropped off copies at Aquarius Records yesterday and it should be in their next batch of write-ups.

XO

MB

Things as they are...

Over Nicasio

Aaron Sheppard

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So the Small Town Romance blog was kind enough to include my Night In The Triangle on its "Best of 2011" list. The site is curated by guitarist, Yair Yona - an elegant player himself.

http://en.smalltownromanceblog.com/yair-yonas-fav-albums-of-2011-2/

Also, Aaron Sheppard's debut, Leverage (pictured above) is finished and will be available soon as a CDr on Psychic Arts. It's mood best fits into the melancholy lineage of French progressive guitar records like those by Pinhas and Michel Moulinie - which is to say it's great. I'm dropping off copies at Aquarius this week. Look for it there and at his live shows. Limited to 50 copies.