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Middle Eight

I don’t like making predictions. What I will say is this… I started work on a lot of good music last year. It has to come out eventually doesn’t it? At the moment, I am producing records for songwriter and bandleader Paulie Pesh, augmented folk-pop outfit Miniature Houses (featuring Michael Wysong and Lili De La [...]

Schlarb Family Plays Steely Dan (Xmas 2011)

To make a long story short, we were supposed to do this last year. I got sick and spent some time in the hospital and it never came together. Thankfully, 2011 has been better in every imaginable way and I set a date to start recording the weekend after Thanksgiving. Danny Miller and Tabor Allen [...]

Stephen King on Twitter

I started reading Stephen King‘s new time travel epic, 11/22/63, last week. So far, I am enjoying it immensely. I haven’t broken the spine on a King novel since high school and I don’t read much fiction but the subject matter caught my attention. Lately, my reading has unintentionally congregated around cults of personality: Vincent [...]

La Belle et la Bête

On Monday, September 5th, I will be playing electric guitar as a member of Le Petit Ensemble Mélodique. Together, we will be performing an original live score to Jean Cocteau‘s classic film, La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast). The music for the ensemble has been written by Lili De La Mora and [...]

Collecting Spirits

In mid-July 2011, I started producing a new album for prolific singer/songwriter/composer Paulie Pesh. We spent the first four days tracking inside of Downey First Presbyterian. The 84-year-old sanctuary, with its vaulted ceilings, and sun-filled, stained glass windows was perfect for tracking rhythm section, strings, and brass. The environment, the music, and the people involved [...]