right now i am finishing up two tracks for my new album, "for a love my grace" and "inasmuch/nonetheless." for these tracks i managed to acquire the musical services of a few friends: dave pulliam graciously offered his studio and engineering expertise, mike ronne played some drums, and jacob arnold, who plays music with dave and mike in their portland-based band cabinessence offered his ears for mixing. nate lumbard, a fantastic multi instrumentalist and all-around-rad-dude played the clarinet. he used to tour with jolie holland as her guitar player. susan riley played the cello (i used to be in a band a few years ago with nate and susan called oz st. fossils. oz st. fossils is headed up by kitchen syncopator and master composer felix manx. felix and i have not recorded together yet for this project but we have plans to: i am going to cover one of his songs and record it with him in his basement). i was also very fortunate to have john moen, from portland's hometown heroes the decemberists, on drums and bass. on "for a love my grace" john plays this cool, plunky, late 60's style bass arrangement. check it out here on my myspace page.
i only have a few more songs to record before the album is done. i think a am going to record more with dave and the cabinessence boys, and if things go my way, i will have cabinessence in their entirety as my band on a couple songs. i am also planning on doing some recording with bob schwenkler in olympia. he's worked with a lot of my friends, including kickball and love menu. he's also offered to help me out with my distribution problems by distributing my cd's for me through bicycle records.
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