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| April 3, 2006 |
| Managed to finish the Jesse Sykes record on time. I think its her best! Nicolai Dunger lent his voice to a number...off soon to Portland for the next Decemberists record. Producing it with Chris Walla. And looking forward to making a 7 inch with Sufjan Stevens in May as well. Playing a couple of shows with Laura Veirs in France next week. More soon! |
| March 18, 2006 |
| Check out the feature on Tucker in the new issue of No Depression magazine... |
| February 25, 2006 |
| New Jesse Sykes record underway. Completed at the end of March. Dropping this Fall on Barsuk. |
| February 16, 2006 |
| Mudhoneys Under a Billion Suns comes out March 7th on Subpop. A bunch of hot Flora trax on there! Also, I did a remix of "Where is the Future?" off the new album which for starters is being offered to those who pre-order the record through Subpop Mixed Terry Lee Hale's new album "Shotgun Pillowcase" this week. |
| January 21, 2006 |
| Howdy. New Transmissionary Six is done: Comes out on Glitterhouse and Film Guerrero in August. Sparky stuff. Johanna Kunin's debut full length is done. Strong, haunting, original stuff. I think you can hear three tracks at her My Space page and another at her booking agents page. Ron Miles and Eyvind Kang came to town to play some incredible parts Mr. Frisell wrote for the record of his with Matt Chamberlain, Viktor Krauss, Lee Townsend and myself. Working title: Friz-Chamber. Kang said the stuff sounded "bold, dirty and unsafe". Here's hoping he's right... Argentinian songstress Gabriela was here recording her next album which we're mixing this week. Sun City Girl Alan Bishop stopped in to have his Radio Algeria album assembled for Sublime Frequencies and to assemble a new SCG release as well. Dude from Nickel Creek (Chris Thile) was in doing a track with Bill Frisell for a Joni Mitchell tribute record that Nonesuch is putting out. There are some hot-t-t tracks on there from Bjork and Prince. New Mount Analog tracks slowly emerging from the womb... |
| November 14, 2005 |
| By popular demand, foxy Flora shirts are now available through the Film Guerrero website. |
| November 4, 2005 |
| Yesterday was dramatic, tomorrow will be ok. Back from 6 weeks of playing music every night with dear friends. Time to crawl back in the hole. Wrapping up the new Downpilot and getting dangerously close to the final stitches in Johanna's... The Long Winters EP "Ultimatum" is out now on Barsuk. I am really proud of this work. Check out Commander Thinks Aloud. Lots of good things brewing... Lastly, I'm feeling pregnant with a healthy, new Mount Analog baby. Gonna dig in shortly! |
| August 28, 2005 |
| Wanderlust: Its time to get out of the recording caves and onto the road >>> behind the drums. I'll be jumping on planes, trains and into vans with Laura Veirs and the Tortured Souls in support of her new one "Year of Meteors" that came out Tuesday on Nonesuch. A couple of weeks on the East coast of the US with Sufjan Stevens and then over to Europa for 4.5 weeks. Stop by and say hey if you live in or near any of these places. You've got to check out the fantastic video for Laura's song Galaxies directed by the amazing folks at Terri Timely. Well things have stayed busy around here. Mr. Jim WhITe came up for some tinkering, the Mudhoney tracks are all mixed and Mike Dumovich's record is done at long last. Ive always felt New Orleans is the heart and soul of this country. It's incomprehensible what's going on down there and to try to imagine our country without it...or with it 20 feet under water. Please keep this city and these people close in your thoughts and actions. We need this place more than we know. The timing is sad and strange, but Nettwerk chose today to at last put up a promotional video of assembled footage from the making of Erin Mckeown's "We Will Become Like Birds" in New Orleans in December of last year. |
| July 5, 2005 |
| Fun times here at casa de Flora. Mudhoney has been here for a few days doing 5 new songs for their next LP on Subpop. One is for a childrens record and the song is called "I Like to Make Noise and Break Things". An instant childrens classic.
In the tradition of hosting many of the worlds great drummers this Summer, I started a record with Death Cab for Cutie's Jason McGerr...he's playing piano, finger-picking guitars and writing really good songs, sheesh Also underway is the debut from one of Seattle's new secret weapons, songwriter/pianist Johanna Kunin. We're roping in many of our faves for this one: Steb Mo, Karl Blau, Matt Chamberlain, Keith Lowe, Eyvind Kang, Lori Goldston... I had the immense pleasure of recording Viktor Krauss on the Frisell/Chamberlain project that is underway. Viktor blew my mind in every way with the big bass AND the little bass. |
| June 1, 2005 |
| This is an incredible time for organizing magnetic particles, so pardon me while i gush for a moment. This week Flora was visited by one of our all-time favorite musicians on the planet, Brian Blade. You know him for his drumming with Emmylou, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Lanois, Willie Nelson, Joe Henry or his instrumental records on Blue Note...but he's here to make a record of his songs, songs he sings and wrote on the guitar. This guy is simply a force of nature as a musician and an individual. Pops Staples, I'd like you to meet Elvin Jones. More as it develops... Laura Veirs' new one "Year of Meteors" is all wrapped up and awaiting it's August release on Nonesuch. I couldnt be more chuffed about knowing and working with Laura, Steve and Karl. I have found the perfect foils. Speaking of foils, Erin McKeown's new record We Will Become Like Birds that we made in New Orleans this Winter is in and will be dropping hard on June 28th(Nettwerk). You can hear the water, here! Speaking of New Orleans, I'll meet you there for the Tape Op Conference from June 10-12. Come hang out below sea level and exchange ideas about all things recording, knobs, faders, warm, metal boxes with sexy lights, vibrating diaphragms (microphones, silly!) and moving coils with myself, Dave Fridmann, Jon Brion, Greg Calbi, Mitch Easter, Chris Walla, Rupert Neve, Richard Buckner, Steve Fisk, Bob Weston, Ethan Allen, Steve Albini, Larry Crane, Craig Schumacher, Tony Visconti, Emily Lazar, George Massenburg, Jim Dickinson, Cosmo Matassa and stuff. We'll stay up all night and then go to the Mississippi when the sun comes up with Dixies in hand...and if we're lucky - we can go see Johnny V. lay it down and lift us up. |
| April 18, 2005 |
| Mount Analog is featured in the current issue of this unusual web magazine called The Galactica, worth a peek...and Electronic Musician has a feature in the April issue about the making of Mount Analogs "New Skin"...more news soon |
| February 24, 2005 |
| The last several weeks have found Laura Veirs and her Tortured Souls holed up at the new Flora recording her new one. Days filled with soldering hearts, galaxies, feedback bossa, rafts for one into the sun, snakes and corn-do, colored wind, brakish bright water, olivine eyes, skylarks, strapping and deranged sailors, fish without eyes, homing pigeons and of course lamplight. Dropping this Fall on Nonesuch. Made possible by LV herself, Karl Blau, Steve Moore, T. Martine and Eyvind Kang.
Today at Flora we were tracking some of the soundtrack for the new brainchild of theater visionary Robert Wilson and Hal Willner. The artists are Joanna Newsom, Bill Frisell, Eyvind Kang, Doug Weiselman and Ralph Carney. Its a continuous track of an intergalactic fantasy folk orchestra. |
| February 1, 2005 |
| I'm excited to report that Erin Mckeown's new record is officially done. It's a unique one from an incredibly original artist made up of extraordinary songwriting, Sebastian Steinberg (Neil Finn, Soul Coughing, Jon Brion, Lisa Germano, Beth Orton...), Juana Molina (my favorite "new" artist - check out her Segundo record asap!), Steve Moore (Laura Veirs, Jesse Sykes, Skerik etc.), Matt Chamberlain (hmmm, where to begin?) and Ms. Mckeown herself. Made in New Orleans and Seattle, always by water. It's slated for a June release on Nettwerk Records. |
| January 24, 2005 |
| This time of year, its nice to be reminded that the endless days you spend in recording bunkers often amount to music that people hear and enjoy. Jesse Sykes' record was on year end "best of" lists from all over including the New York Times and Magnet. Wire magazine has Broken Hearted Dragonflies on their Best of 2004 list. Mylab was amongst the New Yorker and Amazons Best of 2004 selections. Laura Veirs "Carbon Glacier" was released this Fall by Nonesuch, that's a record I'm really proud of. 2004 was the year I got to work with long time favorite of mine, Jim White. My field recordings from Mali finally got released and have really managed to make a life for themselves out there. Transmissionary Six's "Get Down" was another highlight of last year, one of the last done at what is now the "old" Flora. Eyvind Kang's Virginal Co-ordinates was chosen by CMJ as one of the 20 best of 2004. Finally coughed out "New Skin", the latest Mount Analog record...and there was plenty more. Not to mention forthcoming records I'm really excited about that are mostly or completely done from Erin Mckeown, the Long Winters, the Walkabouts, Bill Frisell & Matt Chamberlain, Heather Greene, Ela Lamblin etc. The biggest reward is getting to work with completely original badass's, which is what I get to do most days. |
| December 29, 2004 |
| Hey Seattle folks, come out on New Years Eve to hear Varmint...a band we promise will only happen once: Danny Barnes, Wayne Horvitz, Robin Holcomb, T. Martine, Steve Moore, Tim Young and Don McGreevy. Playing your favorites from the last 60 years or so. At the Rainbow - 10pm till...... |
| November 20, 2004 |
| December will find me in New Orleans at Piety Street Studios working on a record of extraordinary new songs with Miss Erin McKeown. If you don't already know about her, it's worth your time to investigate. This'll be a good one. They say something else happens when you record below sea level...and being a few blocks from the Mississippi can't hurt. Transmissionary Six has a fresh, new one on the consummate Film Guerrero label. It's been said "the best cooking is slow and low as is Transmissionary Six's third album Get Down, which seems crafted out of early morning rebirths and smoldering campfires, anxious desire singed by cold experience, fierce hope deferred gently, and states of grace found suddenly." Give it a taste... Looks like Songlines now has an MP3 of Mount Analog doing Nick Drake's "River Man" with Jesse Sykes singing from the new Drake tribute record. |
| October 25, 2004 |
| Starting November 9th, you can find the new Eyvind Kang/Tucker Martine record "Orchestra Dim Bridges" through finer music outlets such as Forced Exposure. A new Walkabouts record was born a few weeks ago. One room, two blazing electric guitars, three drums, a bass, various keyboards and a few vocals. Such a blast to make a mostly live rock record. Seems like ages since I last did that...plus, I was introduced to my new favorite piece of gear: the Sherman Filterbank. The new Flora is starting to look like a studio...just in time for the Long Winters to come back in November. The christening of the new studio was an all nighter with Mr. Jim White which resulted in a cover of Bill Withers "Use Me Up" for an upcoming compilation the folks at Hear Music are putting out in January. In a Flora first, the new disc Music From the O.C. Vol.3 has a Long Winters Christmas song along with newbies from Ron Sexsmith, The Eels, The Ravonettes, Low etc. You try mustering up the holiday spirit in June! Bloodshot just released a tribute to the great Wanda Jackson called Hard Headed Woman which includes a version of Jesse Sykes doing Weary Blues From Waiting that we made during the making of Oh, My Girl. Lots of great tracks on here. Neko Case, Trailer Bride, Laura Cantrell, Wayne Hancock all contribute goodies. There are a couple of Flora produced tracks on 2 new releases by Mudhoney's Steve Turner. One is an EP released only in Spain and the other is a Full Length available everywhere. Also tracked a bunch of new stuff for Bill Frisell including a couple days worth of rolling tape with Matt Chamberlain which is slated for future mutilation...all the more reason to stay tuned*&^%$@! In closing, please don't accept any excuse from yourself or your friends for not voting on November 2nd. |
| September 9, 2004 |
| Flora is moving., more detailed update soonly! In the meantime, this Saturday (the 11th) on Conversations from the World Cafe there will be a story about some of the various T. Martine projects of late. Check their site for stations in your area that carry it. |
| June 24, 2004 |
| What's new here, let's see...Laura Veirs' Carbon Glacier has found the perfect home in Nonesuch Records. It will be released in the US on August 24th. Look for her in your town soonly. On the new Nick Drake tribute record, Mount Analog contributes a version of River Man with Jesse Sykes singing, Miss Veirs on guitar, TM on drums/perc and Kang on all strings. More on this at the Songlines Records site. Speaking of Eyvind Kang, the Kang/Martine record "Orchestra Dim Bridges" is in the can and scheduled for a late October release. Wonderfully strange - watch the Conduit page for audio samples shortly. |
| May 25, 2004 |
| Hey everybody - come on down to New Orleans this weekend for the 3rd annual Tape Op Conference. Hang out and kick around recording ideas with folks like Jon Brion, Dave Fridmann, Michael Brauer, Ian MacKaye, George Massenburg, Jim Dickinson, Tony Visconti, Joe Chicarelli, Allen Toussaint, Oz Fritz, Steve Albini, Mitch Easter and on and on....wow! And the Rebirth Brass Band will be kicking it all off on Friday with Calexico, Vic Chesnutt et al playing in the evenings. |
| May 6, 2004 |
| Howdy. We're excited to announce that the new Mount Analog record "New Skin" will be released on June 21st by the likes of FilmGuerrero. Purveyors of some of our favorite sides. More info here. Check out the new Jim WHitE record called "Drill A Hole In That Substrate And Tell Me What You See". There's a T. Martine produced track on there as well as some gems skippered by Joe Henry. Some folks like Aimee Mann, Chocolate Genius, The Sadies and others pitched in, too. Mojo: "This album is a big wet dream of loss and isolation, sex and the search for grace. The songs that aren't set late at night, in a motel room that doubles as a jail, take place in the rain on some desolate highway, which might be the path of righteousness but goes nowhere. The phone booth to God is out of order, the radio plays nothing but scripture or static, and the girl in his bed doesn't want to redeem him but needs a ride to the Greyhound station." It comes out June 8th in the US. |
| April 18, 2004 |
| The Sun City Girls label Sublime Frequencies will release 2 discs of my field recordings on July 1st. The first is Bush Taxi Mali, which I recorded throughout Mali in 1998. Lots of Ngonis, street sounds, singing, animals, Dogon children and wedding feedback. The 2nd is Broken Hearted Dragonflies which is an assault of the insect sounds of Southeast Asia, recorded in Burma, Laos and Thailand in 1999. This release has new liner notes that Hakim Bey wrote for it.. Tracker came to town to collaborate on some tracks they are working on as a soundtrack to Craig Thompson's brilliant graphic novel Blankets. The record will be released in July by Top Shelf Comix and filmGuerrero. |
| April 1, 2004 |
| Hey Ya...down here in Napa Valley mixing the Bill Frisell Village Vanguard shows from December. We're mixing at this amazing studio in the woods of Forestville (outside of SF). I just learned that Tom Waits did his last few records here - and those sound phenomenal. Apparently, Tom opted not to use any of the 8 beautiful rooms in favor of recording out in the run down shed. More ghosts I guess. That room is now a live chamber we're using for reverb. Back home soon to do a new Transmissionary Six record. No complaints here. |
| March 17, 2004 |
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Here at Flora, we've been hard at work on a great sounding new record from the Long Winters for Barsuk. We'll be finishing it up in July as they hit the road for the next several months with Lambchop and the Pernice Brothers. Try to catch them, they put on a helluva show. The new Laura Veirs record "Carbon Glacier" came out Feb. 23rd in Europe via Bella Union. Uncut magazine has calls it the album of the month (*****) and has a nice feature on it in their March issue. Fancy Party Cakes! |
| February 3, 2004 |
| There's an interview in the great new web magazine Fear of Speed here. Today marks the official completion of Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter's new record "Oh, My Girl". It's scheduled for a late Spring release on Barsuk. You'll like this. Steve Turner came in with his guns a blazin' to track several songs for his upcoming record on Roslyn Recordings and a Spanish EP. A lot of us know Steve as a member of Mudhoney but this stuff is different and this stuff is for real. He's heading over the pond to do some tracks at Toe Rag - legendary recording hole of the White Stripes. These sessions marked the christening of Flora's new isolation booth that appeared over the holidays. Steve Moore and I packed it up and headed over to Litho for a day in early January to track the core of his debut record as a leader. With our dream band in tow, we got all the drums, piano and upright bass tracks in one day. Matt Chamberlain and Todd Sickafoose made our jobs easy. You may know Steve's playing from records by Laura Veirs, Jesse Sykes or Skerik, but you'll soon know him from his own. Finally these magnificent songs of his have a cozy resting place. To be continued... The Mylab disc was released this week which will be marked by a CD release show at The Triple Door in Seattle. This live incarnation will include Eyvind Kang, Michael Shrieve, Skerik, Timothy Young, Keith Lowe, Andy Roth, Dave Carter, Robin Holcomb, Tucker Martine, Wayne Horvitz and "Super Special Guests"! It's an early show so don't dilly dally. |
| January 1, 2004 |
| I was fortunate to spend a week in New York recording Bill Frisell live at the Village Vanguard with Tony Scherr and Kenny Wolleson for a 2004 release on Nonesuch. New York this time of year is something else. Additionally, Bill's Intercontinentals record was just nominated for a Grammy. Dern, now I have to figure out what I'm gonna wear to the Outkast party... Also spent a week in Pensacola, Florida at the home and studio of Jim White. Turpentine he calls it . We started a record of some of Jim's stranger songs(is that possible?!) as produced by he and I and as sung by his long time friend Linda Delgado. His garage is a satisfying entanglement of yard sale suitcase amplifiers, dictaphones, bells, intermittent organs, 25 cent microphones, dusty guitars and banjos...and much more. Keep an eye on the reveries page for a photo or 2 from that excursion. Speaking of Mr. White, check out this new film called Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus". It's documentary style film which goes in search of the underbelly of the American South with Jim White as the South's ambassador. A collage of stories and testimonies, almost invariably of sudden death, sin or redemption...Heaven or Hell, with no middle ground. The Handsome Family, Trailor Bride, Johnny Dowd and 16 Horsepower are also in there. Snuck a little more time in on the Kang/Martine record...it's becoming clearer. |
| September 16, 2003 |
| Tucker produced a song for the upcoming Jim White record on Luaka Bop. An honor and a pleasure. The mixing took place last week in Los Angeles with the exceptional Ryan Freeland at the knobs. A handful of the albums other tracks were produced by Joe Henry. In December, Tucker goes to New York to record 4 consecutive nights of Bill Frisell live at the Village Vanguard with Kenny Wollesen and Tony Scherr for Nonesuch Records. |
| September 9, 2003 |
| a while back, James Joyce said "Mistakes are the portals of discovery” |
| August 22, 2003 |
| Long time, no update...but not for a lack of activity: A few excerpts from the not yet released Mount Analog record "New Skin" as well as a few classics are available in the MP3 section. Look for the link at the top of this page. Downpilot's "Leaving Not Arriving" came out this month on Blue Disguise. Features TM wearing the captain's hat and playing a few drums. Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter are back from Europe and just stopped in to continue massaging their new one into place. They're raising the proverbial bar. We borrowed Greg Readling from Tift Merritt's band for some chrome and steel. There are still a couple of new gems to track but we're over the hump and right on schedule for that Spring 04 release on Barsuk. The new Laura Veirs record is done. "Carbon Glacier" it's called...and it's the most fully realized Veirs disc to date. The new Sanford Arms record, "The Twilight Era" just got mastered and picks up where the last one left off. Watch their website for release details. Tucker spent much of July working on the debut record from NY based songwiter Heather Greene. More on this soon... The Eyvind Kang/Tucker Martine duo record is shaping up. Not an ordinary document. All instruments/sounds by Kang/Martine at Flora. To be released by Conduit Records. Speaking of Kang, we finally got our hands on "Virginal Co-ordinates" which is the disc assembled from some of the shows Eyvind did in Bologna, Italy with Mike Patton, Tucker Martine, Michael White, Timothy Young, Evan Schiller and a 26 piece group based in Bologna. Epic, majestic stuff.....imagine if the Polyphonic Spree were ambient. Marc Olsen's new record "Brighter When" was released this month by Barbara Mitchell's new Roslyn Recordings. It was recorded by Marc's brother on his farm in Southern Oregon and brought up to Tucker for the final mix at Flora. Jon Hyde's got a new Ep out called "Blair". It was mixed by TM. Track it down at Racket Music. The new Mount Analog record won't be released till 2004 but that hasn't stopped some folks at the BBC 3 with good taste from playing it on their shows...man, they play a seriously great range of music. And I think you can listen in if you want. |
| June 17, 2003 |
| The new Mount Analog record, NEW SKIN - is finally in the can! Stay tuned for release details....in the meantime go to the Albums page Laura Veirs new record is well under way. LV, Karl Blau, Steve Moore, Tucker, melodicas, piano, sub bass, black lines on the backs of our hands, jangle percussion, nylon strings, carbon glaciers, vibraphonette, pump organ, level locs, silvertones and casios got us started. |
| April 10, 2003 |
| On April 17th at 11AM Laura Veirs and band (Karl Blau, Tucker Martine and Steve Moore) will be taking that quasi-Appalachian sound to Los Angeles and will play live on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. You can listen live or if you're too late, I think they archive all shows online, too. Also May 2 with the Dirty Three at the Showbox in Seattle - this time with Eyvind Kang in the band. A week or so ago we started recording the new Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter record. This batch of songs is possibly even better and after all that touring, these guys are playing their collective asses off. Hey, that Bill Frisell record Intercontinentals is now out on Nonesuch. Real soon there will be some changes to this site - mainly in that it will be much easier to update the other pages. They will all be revised and updated. Look for audio and all new photos! |
| February 21, 2003 |
| SXSW alert: Laura Veirs - Tucker, Karl Blau and Steve Moore are playing friday night , March 13th in Austin, TX. at Friends on the Bella Union showcase. Keep up with her European and West Coast dates at her site. Wayne Horvitz's 4 + 1 Ensemble is playing a rare live show on March 6th at the University of Washington. The group is Wayne, Tucker, Julian Priester, Eyvind Kang and Reggie Watts. More info on the show here. A beautiful record of improvised duets between alto saxophone legend Daniel Carter and Rueben Radding came out this week on Aum Fidelity. One writer had this to say of it: "This is one of the most brilliantly understated documents ever to emerge from the bubbling cauldron of today's New York free improv scene." It's called "Luminescence". Recorded by Tucker at FLORA when the pair were passing through. Tucker began a collaboration with musical contraption maker / instrument inventor wiz Ela Lamblin. Basically, Ela brought a few truckloads of his creations over to FLORA and the two werent heard from for 5 days. More details as it progresses. The two hope to find time to complete the record by late Spring. It promises to be strange and lovely. Another FLORA production just out - Grace Hearn and Michael Savage's "Messy Blue Ending" is available through their site. |
| January 26, 2003 |
| Laura Veirs new record, "Troubled by the Fire" will finally be released on March 4th (US) on Bella Union! The CD release show is on March 8th at the Tractor in Seattle with Jesse Sykes playing, too. On Feb. 8th - come on down to the Sunset in Seattle and see Laura Veirs and her Tortured Souls (Karl Blau, T. Martine, Steve Moore). It's a great bill: Steve Fisk opening with his Optigan/mellotron fiesta and the Black Cat Orchestra will top it all off . Steve's website is worth a visit, too - he's always producing something great - Nirvana, Pell Mell, Low and on. |
| December 30, 2002 |
| Christmas in Nashville - not exactly white but serene nonetheless. Bill Frisell spent a day at Flora smearing all kinds of cool stuff on new Mount Analog tracks as well as Tuckers field recordings from Mali 1999. Absolutely sublime. Look for Bill's Flora recorded tracks on the brand new release of John Zorn's "Masada Guitars" with Marc Ribot and Tim Sparks on Tzadik. Tracked a solo cello record for Lori Goldston (of Black Cat Orchestra, Nirvana, David Byrne renown). She played live to the Passion of Joan of Arc film from 1928. Lori has been performing to this for years and it's exciting to get to produce a recorded translation of it. It was recorded in the cathedral at the Good Shepards Center in Seattle. The final result will have a few electro-acoustic,processed moments weaved about. Hopefully completed in March 03. The Down Pilot record is done - Roger Seibel just mastered it at SAE. It came out great - look for a Summer 2003 release. Started a new Sanford Arms album for Pattern 25.....and got to mix a new record for Jon Hyde at Avast |
| November 1, 2002 |
| The Mount Analog show in Olympia was great. Thanks to all for the healthy and enthusiastic turnout. The night was made even better when Mark from Negativland gave us mass props afterwards! He's a loooongtime inspiration. We plan to record that score soon. Headed out to Trillium Lane Studios on Bainbridge Island to record and mix the new Bobby Previte record in 3 days. His band "Bump" is Steve Swallow, Curtis Fowlkes, Marty Ehrlich and Wayne Horvitz. I got to pick Swallow's brain for Jimmy Giuffre stories! The Mylab record (Tucker and Wayne Horvitz plus tons of guests) is wrapped up and will come out in February. The Tart record is done , it rocks hard and is testosterone free....but not for sissies. A couple of extra special projects are in the works but we're withholding details so as not to jinx their realization - check in often for bean spillage. |
| October 15, 2002 |
| Tucker mixed Marc Olsen's new record this week. It's scheduled for a June 2003 release on Rosalyn/Burn Burn Burn. Also mixed a track for New York based violinist Jenny Scheinman who was in town playing in Bill Frisell's new Quintet. Jenny has been playing this last year with some pretty good folks like Marc Ribot, Aretha Frankiln, Norah Jones (Oh-my-gawd!), Cecil Taylor and so on. Keep yours ears out for her. Beloved Laura Veirs' new album "Troubled By the Fire" has found a warm and loving home at Bella Union Records in London. Simon Raymonde of the Cocteau Twins co-founded the label. His enthusiasm for her record matches our own and for this we are grateful. Look for a March 2003 release...and world domination to follow soon there after. Recorded and mixed a couple of songs with Veda Hille of Vancouver, BC and Robin Holcomb for an upcoming Nick Drake tribute album. Did some more work on the Tart LP. |
| September 17, 2002 |
| Mount Analog will perform their scores again for the depression-era propaganda films "The Plow That Broke The Plains" and "The River" at the Capitol Theater in Olympia, WA. as part of the Olympia Film Festival. October 19th at 8:30 sharp. Also, come see the band on October 13th at Seattle's Jewel Box Theater inside the Rendezvouz on 2nd Ave. Bunch of good shows around the NW with Veirs coming up real soonly including one at the Crocodile with Jesse Sykes and Mudhoney's Steve Turner on Sat. October 5th....keep an eye here for all the dates. Recently at Flora, Tucker produced several tracks for a Nick Drake tribute record that is being compiled by Songlines Records in Vancouver, BC. The musicians include Mike Dumovich, Aiko Shimada, Bill Horist and Sam Mickens. Also in progress for this is a version of Nick's "River Man" by Mount Analog with Jesse Sykes singing and Laura Veirs picking. Just finished mixing the new Bill Frisell record at San Francisco's Different Fur and there is still nothing quite like the sound of 1/2 inch 2 track. This project is not yet named but will be released by Nonesuch in late Winter/Early Spring 2003. We wish we could share with you his drawings from these sessions but they aren't fit for public consumption. In other Bill news: he was just at Flora for a day of recording guitar versions of Masada tunes for an upcoming Tzadik release which includes Marc Ribot. Bill is slinging a mean nylon string axe these days. Work continues this week on his collaboration with Petra Haden and he comes in next week for a few days of recording with slide/finger picking country-blues wizard Kelly Joe Phelps and Lee Townsend. These tracks will be on Kelly Joe's upcoming Rykodisc release "Wide Years and Blasting Caps". |
| August 20, 2002 |
| The Flora made EP from Mike Dumovich is now available in a limited edition handmade package through Beep Repaired Records. This stuff reminds us all of why music has chosen us. You can listen to a cut at their site. the Jesse Sykes and the SweetHereafter record "Reckless Burning", was released this week in Europe. It is in the very able hands of the folks at Fargo Records whose roster includes Richard Buckner, Ryan Adams, Chris Whitley and the Handsome Family. Tucker mixed a couple of tracks by Austrian multimedia artist Andre Heller in collaboration with the Walkabouts. Come to the Bumbershoot on August 31st to hear two exceptional songwriters: Danny Barnes (Bad Livers) and Laura Veirs supported by Steb Mo and Tucker. Keep your eyes on Laura's site for other NW dates with this lineup plus Karl Blau or Eyvind Kang. In progress at Flora: the kick ass ladies of Tart are stopping in to make their first electric full length |
| August 10, 2002 |
| On Friday, August 16th, come see Hughscore at the Moore Theater in Seattle featuring Hugh Hopper (Soft Machine), Fred Chalenor, Tucker Martine, Steve Moore and Elaine DeFalco. Show starts at 8:30. The vibe and sound of this room are something special. |
| July 19, 2002 |
| Bill Frisell's new album "The Willies" is out now on Nonesuch. Here is a link to a feature on him in the Seattle Times that includes of shot from these sessions at Flora. |
| July 12, 2002 |
| The new issue of Tape Op has an interview with Tucker. Their website also offers a busy and useful message board where folks exchange ideas about recording processes. This week, work resumes on a collaborative record between Wayne Horvitz and Tucker Martine...called Mylab. This record will be an all around guest fest including Frisell, Danny Barnes, Robin Holcomb, Eyvind Kang, Doug Weiselman, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Reggie Watts, Dave Carter and a few other exciting possibilities yet to be confirmed. This will be released by Terminus Records in Atlanta. which was founded by an old friend, Jeff Bransford and his brother. The same folks that released Layng Martine III's great Slang record. A live version of that project is playing on Friday, June 21st. The Funky Joint Presents MYLAB : featuring Wayne Horvitz , Bobby Previte, Doug Weiselman, Tucker Martine + guests Reggie Watts, Eyvind Kang, Timothy Young, Danny Barnes, Keith Lowe, Robin Holcomb, and Dave Carter Larkspur featuring - Reggie Watts, PK, Kevin Sawka. Also DJ Saxton - (Soundtribe Sector 9) The new CD from Robin Holcomb, The Big Time, comes out on Tuesday, June 18th on Nonesuch Records. Recorded by Tucker. Anyone out there who doesn't know her work might ought to look into it. “Robin Holcomb has created a new American regionalism, spun from many threads--country, rock, minimalism, Civil War songs, Baptist hymns, Appalachian folk tunes, even the polytonal music of Charles Ives. The music that results is as elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful.” The New York Times More work this week on the record of Seattle's great musical secret Mike Dumovich. We just finished tracking yet another Bill Frisell record at Litho in Seattle. This time around it's Sidiki Camara (Mali) , Vinicius Cantuaria (Brasil), Christos Govetas (Greece), Greg Leisz (LA) and Jenny Scheinman (Bay Area). Mixing in SF in September....probably released early 2003 on Nonesuch. Tucker will be drumming with Laura Veirs on a whole bunch of dates in the coming months. Her new CD "Troubled by the Fire" is a special piece of work and has inspired Eyvind Kang, Tucker and Steve Moore to assemble behind Laura to try to do the music justice. Watch her website for specfic dates and release info. |
| June 10, 2002 |
| The new issue of Tape Op has an interview with Tucker. Their website also offers a busy and useful message board where folks exchange ideas about recording processes. This week, work resumes on a collaborative record between Wayne Horvitz and Tucker Martine...called Mylab. This record will be an all around guest fest including Frisell, Danny Barnes, Robin Holcomb, Eyvind Kang, Doug Weiselman, Bobby Previte, Skerik, Reggie Watts, Dave Carter and a few other exciting possibilities yet to be confirmed. This will be released by Terminus Records in Atlanta. which was founded by an old friend, Jeff Bransford and his brother. The same folks that released Layng Martine III's great Slang record. A live version of that project is playing on Friday, June 21st. The Funky Joint Presents MYLAB : featuring Wayne Horvitz , Bobby Previte, Doug Weiselman, Tucker Martine + guests Reggie Watts, Eyvind Kang, Timothy Young, Danny Barnes, Keith Lowe, Robin Holcomb, and Dave Carter Larkspur featuring - Reggie Watts, PK, Kevin Sawka. Also DJ Saxton - (Soundtribe Sector 9) The new CD from Robin Holcomb, The Big Time, comes out on Tuesday, June 18th on Nonesuch Records. Recorded by Tucker. Anyone out there who doesn't know her work might ought to look into it. “Robin Holcomb has created a new American regionalism, spun from many threads--country, rock, minimalism, Civil War songs, Baptist hymns, Appalachian folk tunes, even the polytonal music of Charles Ives. The music that results is as elegantly simple as a Shaker Quilt, and no less beautiful.” The New York Times More work this week on the record of Seattle's great musical secret Mike Dumovich. We just finished tracking yet another Bill Frisell record at Litho in Seattle. This time around it's Sidiki Camara (Mali) , Vinicius Cantuaria (Brasil), Christos Govetas (Greece), Greg Leisz (LA) and Jenny Scheinman (Bay Area). Mixing in SF in September....probably released early 2003 on Nonesuch. Tucker will be drumming with Laura Veirs on a whole bunch of dates in the coming months. Her new CD "Troubled by the Fire" is a special piece of work and has inspired Eyvind Kang, Tucker and Steve Moore to assemble behind Laura to try to do the music justice. Watch her website for specfic dates and release info. |
| May 10, 2002 |
| Bill Frisell's new record "The Willies" was recorded at Flora and will be released in June on Nonesuch. New Mount Analog music will premiere in a new work by the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group on May 31st, June 1 and 2,8 and 9. See their site for details. |
| April 25, 2002 |
| Props go out to The Stranger for highlighting Seattle area producers this week and helping us try to figure out what it is that producers actually do....
Paul Austin is on board to provide some cushy thickener to the May 15th show with his roomate's bass.
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| April 3, 2002 |
| Mount Analog is playing on May 15th at the JBL Theater located inside EMP. The band will be performing a new score for two beautiful Depression-era documentaries about man’s desire to conquer nature, these two works of propaganda from the Roosevelt years capture the progressive optimism of the time. An hours worth of all new music from "the log". Show is at 8pm sharp. Click here for more information on this show. Howdy. Mac (my brother, the Webmasta) and I try not to use this space to simply rave about amazing music we hear or see, but I have to make an exception for a band I saw at SXSW in Austin. I'm talking about The Polyphonic Spree. They have to be seen to be believed...all 27 of them in their white church gowns, the choir singing joyously about the sun amongst all the symphonic pop horns, timpani and guitars. Imagine the Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin era if they were reared on cathartic church music, mix in a little Sun Ra, a little The Band. It feels goofy trying to talk about it. -TM The new Orbiter CD "Sparks on a String" comes out on May 3rd on Loveless Records. Harris Thurmond (Hammerbox) and Fiia McGann are back with a full band record. Tucker produced. If you like grooving AND rocking hard, you should investigate this matter further. The celebrate their CD release party on Friday, May 5th at the Sit and Spin in SeaTown. The Helsinki based Giant Robot has a new Cd out called "Superweekend" on Parlophone/EMI. The first run includes a limited edition run of a 2nd disc with Mount Analog's "I am Not Human" remix. These guys are actually #12 on the Finish Radio Mafia charts this week. Ahh Flora, the hit-making machine. Tucker recorded sessions this week with Bill Frisell and Petra Haden together. Also sessions for NYC based accordian genius Guy Klucevsek. Guy's work with folks like Kronos Quartet, Laurie Anderson, Anthony Braxton, Dave Douglas, Frisell, Zorn etc. has helped establish him as the most bad-ass modern accordianist. |
| March 24, 2002 |
| Jon Hyde's Flora produced song "Hope Chest" is featured on the new Hear Music compilation called "Waking". It's in fine company amongst new tracks from Leonard Cohen, David Byrne, Sam Phillips, Ryan Adams, Rufus Wainwright, Joe Strummer and a bunch more. Lots of folks have been writing us about a release date for Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter's "Reckless Burning". It will be officialy released on April 19th by the fine folks at Burn, Burn, Burn records. Join them that night at the Tractor Tavern to celebrate it's release and be sure to head down to the Crocodile in Seattle April 3rd where they will share the bill with the amazing Giant Sand. The disc is available now from Miles of Music online.....on their site they write "Jesse Sykes’ singing style is so alluringly languid that it inspires the imagination. We hear aspects of Tarnation and a young Marianne Faithful in her music, while Hannah Levin, in the Stranger, claims that the disc "suggests Cat Power’s reigned sadness and the inherent strength of country icons like Emmylou Harris and LucindaWilliams." No matter how you describe it, this darkly atmospheric debut stands as a compelling work. Sykes’ band, led by ex-Whiskeytowner Phil Wandscher on guitar, provides an appropriately twangy noir soundtrack for these elegantly mournful songs.".....The album is#1 this week on KEXP's Variety, Americana and Northwest charts. Check out Jesse's site for more info on their tour dates with The Knitters. Tune into KEXP online Saturday at 8pm for a live set from Transmissionary Six featuring Terri Moeller, Paul Austin (ex-Willard Grant Conspiracy), Jon Askew (Tracker et al.) Anne Marie Ruljancich, Kevin Suggs, Tucker and probably more. This will be archived soon thereafter on the stations site. The Zony Mash Live disc is out now on Liquid City Records and features way extended verions of Zony favorites.The first track is 17 minutes long. |
| February 13, 2002 |
| R.I.P. Waylon Jennings A Flora of activity: new Laura Veirs record in progress with Steve Moore, Bill Frisell, Tucker, Fred Chalenor, Eyvind Kang....the usual suspects Tracking for Weary, An EP for 3 Storey Head is being mastered, Doug Wieselman layed down some clarinet and guitar on a new Mount Analog track, the Zony Mash Live disc was mastered on Friday by Steve Turnidge at Ultraviolet...... |
| February 1, 2002 |
| Tonight at the Rainier Tower in Seattle, Tucker Martine, Reggie Watts and Jeramy Koepping (of Voyager One) will play around 7pm.....in the room up top that is decorated as a Swiss village. Should be surreal at the very least! January Eighteen Two Thousand and Two The Transmissionary Six disc is out available for your consumption. |
| January 1, 2002 |
| On Friday, January 11th, Tucker Martine and Eyvind Kang will perform as a duo at the Experience Music Project as part of Spaceboat TV's "Ultracolonialismus" extravaganza. Also on hand will be Reggie Watts, Skerik, Timothy Young, Kevin Goldman and a truckload of other weirdos. This will be webcast live from EMP's site. Indiewire calls it "A finely tuned multi-media party at Seattle's infamous EMP, where the bands play melodic sets between a solid assortment of international underground films and psychedelic projections." But what do they know? Friends of the random summer usually rode bicycles and solved mysteries. Now they sat in the library with stacks of old records around them. They listened on a gramaphone. most of the records stored the sound of people speaking. some the sound of birds singing. This library was the saddest place. The friends went outside. Yesterday had been dramatic, but today was going to be ok. Here is to good health and a positive 2002. |
| December 7, 2001 |
| On Tuesday, December 11, Eyvind Kang and Tucker will play at Consolidated works in Seattle around 9pm. Improvised viola and misc. ambient processing. |
| November 12, 2001 |
| The Flora is enchanted in welcoming the honorable Paul Austin (Willard Grant Conspiracy) and Terri Moeller (Walkabouts) playing the wonderful songs western of hope. Please refer to them as Transmissionary Six. The EP will be finished very soon and available through their website. The sound of this dream is cloudy. Thank you and OK! |
| September 30, 2001 |
| The new CD from The Four Plus One Ensemble (Wayne Horvitz, Julian Priester, Tucker Martine, Eyvind Kang and Reggie Watts) is out now on AVANT. Its called "From a Window" and picks up where the last record left off. The group recorded this just after returning from a month long tour in Europe (2000) where its chemistry and "new electro-acoustic chamber music" morphed into an other worldly beast. You can hear some samples here. Try the title track, #6 "From a Window" for a good example of the live processing at work. The speaker on the left side is the 4 acosutic instruments and the right side is all the processing (plus 1). The Four Plus One Ensemble plays on November 9th at the Tractor in Seattle and on November 10th at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver, BC. For info on tickets to the Vancouver show, call 604-257-5111 |
| September 25, 2001 |
| Tucker has composed and produced the score for Engine Anthem by the Crispin Spaeth Dance Group to be performed at On The Boards in Seattle from October 19-21st. Contributers to this score include Amy Denio, Matt Cameron (Soundgarden), Wayne Horvitz and Suzie Kozawa. Tucker will be on KEXP at noon on October 18th to discuss the process of cutting and pasting the other artists sounds with his own to make one seamless sound score. They offer live webcasts at their site. For ticket info click here. |
| September 16, 2001 |
| The Sanford Arms album "Too Loud For the Snowman" comes out Sept. 18 on Pattern 25 Records. There's a little Flaming Lips, Sparklehorse, Grandaddy-ish vibe in there but click here to read some of the reviews for a better description. We'll be putting up a few tracks from that record soon, when the audio section is relaunched. In the mean time, this record is really worth checking out. The band will play on October 5th at The Tractor to celebrate the discs release. |
| September 14, 2001 |
| By now, you probably all know where to give blood or make even a small donation, but here is a link to the Red Cross in case you need any of those questions answered. |
| August 1, 2001 |
| X-RAY mixes are almost complete, sounding a bit like Los Lobos wrestling Arto Lindsay. Also just finished mixes for the new Wayne Horvitz piano record on Songlines. This is the follow up to his gorgeous American Bandstand CD...but we cant call it that anymore because Dick Clark has actually filed a lawsuit (honest!). We mixed this record in stereo AND in 5.0 DSD which was new for me. I was a bit sceptical going into it but now I want to be able to pan everything to the left rear if necessary. Its pretty amazing to be able to play with imaging on that level. I did a live to DAT session with trumpeter Tony Grasso's group yesterday and dudes can play. I used my new Royer and Coles ribbon mics on the horns and ended up with a great old jazz club sound...smooth and open. It was scheduled as a demo session but is going to be released as an album now because of how great it turned out. The world will be hearing a lot more from this guy. A few weeks back i took part in an event at Consolidated Works that had 3 sound artists in Seattle improvising live with 3 in New York over the internet with live video feeds of each location. It was hard to tell what was coming from where for a while but we hit a few nice passages. Monday banjoist extraordinaire Danny Barnes and fiddlist Cliff Self are coming into town to start tracking a new project. We tracked basics a couple of weeks ago for a new Orbiter record. Stay tuned here for updates.- TM |
| June 20, 2001 |
| The folks at Spaceboat TV have posted some mangled video excerpts from the Mount Analog show at Consolidated works in March. They chose a tune thats been axed from circulation but its still fun to watch! Go to the bottom left hand corner of their site for this.
Fred Chalenor did a huge job playing upright with the band at last weeks Tractor show. Once youve had a bass in there, its hard to imagine turning back..
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| June 11, 2001 |
| Jesse and Phils CD is mixed and getting mastered in a couple of weeks. Last night at the Crocodile, Howe Gelb opened his set by blasting the 1st track from it and playing along with it in his brilliant, twisted, desert music kind of way. What a nice way to hear your mixes outside of the studio for the first time! |
| June 10, 2001 |
| Started tracking with a hella cool band called DownPilot this week. Our plan is to do 4 or so days of recording every few months until an album is complete. Things are off to a great start. Great material, great singing, great players whos stuff sounds good when they show up AND they are into exploiting the studio as an instrument. Recorded the drums in the living room at Flora.....mmmmmmmmmm...tasty! - TM |
| May 13, 2001 |
| Tucker will perform in duet with violinist Eyvind Kang at the Seattle Improvised Music Festival on June 28th at I-Spy in Seattle. Tucker will be playing a big mess of electronics which will be used to manipulate the violin signal....creating new and visiting old worlds. Also on the evenings bill is the Nels Cline trio with Wally Shoup and Toshi Makihara. 9PM |
| May 10, 2001 |
| Mount Analog is playing Saturday, June 2nd at the Tractor Tavern in Seattle along with Sanford Arms. |
| May 7, 2001 |
| Tucker is producing and engineering a new record for Jesse Sykes and Phil Wandscher of Whiskeytown. The tracks are down and mixing starts May 28th. Haunting, beautiful stuff. |
| April 22, 2001 |
| Mount Analog is ecstatic to have Keith Lowe joining them on upright bass this Friday at the EMP show! Some of y'all know Keith from his low end duties with Fiona Apple, Zony Mash, David Sylvian and such. Check out Keiths site for some interplanetary adventures and more about him. |
| April 20, 2001 |
| We've just been alerted to a nomination for a SAMIE award for productions in 2000. |
| April 11, 2001 |
| Bill Frisell and the Willies mixes are in and sounding great! When listening back to one of the mixes, Bill said "it sounds like an ice cream truck". I couldnt have said it more eloquently myself. We had a great time at Different Fur in San Francisco. We even went to the Oxygen Bar on a break and bought 20 minutes worth of air each. Look for an early Spring 2002 release on Nonesuch Records. - TM Tucker is working on new music for a segment of a Crispin Spaeth Dance Group piece to be performed in the Fall... The Robin Holcomb record is all tracked and to be mixed in May. Robin showed up with amazing songs, an amazing voice, amazing musicians and some great ideas...another Nonesuch release for later in the year. |
| April 10, 2001 |
| This just in: Mount Analog will open for John Cale (Velvet Underground, Brian Eno...) at Seattles Experience Music Project on Friday April 27th. We'll provide times and ticket pricing as we find out. A new Mount Analog track called "Paint" was used by experimental film maker Reed O' Bierne for his new work titled "Get to Go" "Lights Up the River" from Mount Analogs self-titled debut CD appears in the opening of a new film from Subliminal Media called "Alex the Great" |
| March 20, 2001 |
| Mount Analog will play in Seattle at Sit-n-Spin on April 19th. Also on the bill is Willow who will be celebrating the release of her T. Martine produced CD. |
| March 15, 2001 |
| The Supersonics swept the Lakers. |
| March 11, 2001 |
| Check out the February issue of EQ magazine. Its out and featuring Flora Ave Studio! |
| March 3, 2001 |
| Mount Analog will be playing at Consolidated Works in Seattle on March 28th as part of the Sublimina series. This great and unusual space usually yields some great ,unusual shows. We hope you can stop by. This performace will be broadcasted live over the Internet from the ConWorks web site. |
| January 23, 2001 |
| In March, Bill Frisell and the Willies along with Lee Townsend will return to Flora to finish what they started. Then down to San Francisco in April where the record will be mixed with Tucker at Different Fur. The record will be released by Nonesuch probably near the end of the year. |
| January 23, 2001 |
| In March, Bill Frisell and the Willies along with Lee Townsend will return to Flora to finish what they started. Then down to San Francisco in April where the record will be mixed with Tucker at Different Fur. The record will be released by Nonesuch probably near the end of the year. |
| January 15, 2001 |
| Alrighty folks, the Laura Veirs CD is finished and available from her via her website. I gotta say, this one came out great and Im proud to have been a part of it. Some folks hear traces of Gillian Welch...maybe so, but this is one of those records where all the elements just came together in the right way at the right time. Nice playing by Danny Barnes, Eyvind Kang, Jon Hyde and several others. Check it! - Tucker |
| January 13, 2001 |
| Tucker has been, and will continue to spend most of the month of January at Seattle's Studio Litho recording new records for Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz and Zony Mash (acoustic) and Danny Barnes of the Bad Livers. additionally...Jack Endino has just launched the Northwest Studio Web, a great resource for learning more about recording environments around these here parts. This is a good place to see Flora's equiptment list and other studio geek stuff. |
| January 12, 2001 |
| Tune in to hear singer/songwriter and fellow Mount Analog member Jon Hyde playing songs off his new Flora produced record, Yellow Light, live on KCMU in Seattle on January 13, 6pm PST. Among the band are Tucker, Bruce Wirth, and Caben Buswell, If you are outside of Seattle you can also listen live at 6pm from KCMU.org or by clicking here for Real Player users or here for Windows Media Player users. |
| January 7, 2001 |
| Tucker will spend the month of February in his home town of Nashville recording a new record for Sarah Siskind. They will hole up at the vibey Alex The Great for tracking. Bill Frisell and Jennifer Kimball are amongst the cast of players. You probably have to get it through her website. |
| January 6, 2001 |
| So, Tucker is back and in the studio. He brought with him some amazing photographs, keep your eye on the Reveries page for a slide show coming soon. |
| December 9, 2000 |
| Tucker is now on an excursion through Laos, Burma, and Thailand for most of December. He's got a dat deck and stereo mic in hand (at least he did when he left), so maybe he'll bless us with some racket from the eastern lands upon return on the 24th. I will be posting whatever I can on this site for all to see, so stay tuned. (He is with his wife, Apple).
Here is a photo I just received from him. |
| December 1, 2000 |
| The Wayne Horvitz CD "American Bandstand" that Tucker produced with Wayne, is featured this month at the Studio Litho website. |
| November 26, 2000 |
| I have added an interview with Tucker by Scott Colburn at Gravelvoice. This is going to be published in Tape-Op magazine in the near future. Many thanks to Scott for allowing the sneak-preview. |
| November 21, 2000 |
| Mount Analog is playing at I-Spy in Seattle on January 29th, 2001 as part of the Silk2k series |
| November 16, 2000 |
| Unisphere is chipping away at their debut release. The group asks all of its stalkers to just cool it until the record is complete. |
| November 6, 2000 |
| Tucker has been producing records for Sanford Arms, Willow,Laura Veirs, Lincoln Briney and X-Ray over the last couple of months. Also in progress is a new record with Mack Starks who led Nashville's Farmer Not So John. |
| November 1, 2000 |
| We just got a copy of the Bill Frisell/Dale Bruning CD "Reunion" which Tucker recorded and mixed at Flora. Its got a cool cover that Gary Larson drew for this project. |
| October 27, 2000 |
| The new Jon Hyde disc produced by Tucker at Flora has also just arrived and is looking go-od! The CD release party at Seattles Tractor Tavern will feature many Mount Analog guests. Come celebrate its release on 11/30/00. |
| October 24, 2000 |
| Tucker recorded the Bill Frisell tracks and produced Gary Heffern for a tribute to legendary songwriter/artist Mickey Newbury. The CD is called Frisco Mabel Joy and was put together by the folks at No Depression magazine. Mickey has always taken a collage sort of approach to assembling his records and this tribute is true to that aesthetic. This CD includes tracks from Victoria Williams,Mark Olson,Chuck Prophet,Kris Kristofferson, Walkabouts,Bob Neuwirth, Robin Holcomb and Dave Alvin.
Tucker and his brother Layng are The International Bankers. Check out "The Hunt for Bin Laden" on the new Infrasound Collective Compilation "Owasso Night Atlas".
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| September 22, 2000 |
| The 4 + 1 Ensemble just recorded a new CD for Avant in Japan. The sessions went great. The group is Wayne Horvitz, Tucker Martine, Julian Priester, Eyvind Kang and Reggie Watts with a guest appearance from Skerik. We are expecting it to be a Spring 2001 release. |
| September 11, 2000 |
| Mount Analog will perform with Climax Golden Twins and Bill Horist at the O.K. Hotel in Seattle on Sept. 28. |
| May 25, 2000 |
| Hey everybody - come on down to New Orleans this weekend for the 3rd annual Tape Op Conference. Hang out and kick around recording ideas with folks like Jon Brion, Dave Fridmann, Michael Brauer, Ian MacKaye, George Massenburg, jim Dickinson, Tony Visconti, Joe Chicarelli, Allen Toussant, Oz Fritz and on and on....wow! And the Rebirth Brass Band will be kicking it all off on Friday with Calexico, Vic Chesnutt et al playing in the evenings. |
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