Just received the beautiful master from Mr. Rafter Roberts. Co-ordinating Grady McFerrin’s beautiful artwork with the talented hands of Alaska!. Ghost Stories are almost ready to be told.
With the welcome demise of the Sounds Are Active myspace page and the more painful shuttering of the BBS I have started to create a framework for two important things: family life and making music. I still enjoy talking with anyone about music and I am always hopeful that the music I love or have [...]

When the dust settled we had traveled up and down the California coast four times: twice by car, twice by plane. We recorded in a church on top of a hill in San Francisco and in the darkness of an industrial warehouse in Carson. We collaborated with artists from Argentina, Italy and Spain. We [...]

By 2001, I was starting to take Sounds Are Active seriously. We had changed the name (from the awful Mantis Music), started talking with Glen about putting out Soul-Junk and received the first of many logos for the label. I think it may have been Pete Deeble’s idea: assemble some of the most interesting, [...]

Recorded over the course of a few months, Moth Nor Rust was the first release by Sounds Are Active (at that time, 1999, called Mantis Music). We pressed and sold almost 200 copies of this album on CD-R’s. I had to burn each individual track because I didn’t have a CD burner on my computer [...]