The release date for the new album is 2010-06-15. It will be available in three formats:
• CD – from conventional and online retailers, via Burnside Distribution
• mp3 – from the usual download stores (iTunes, amazon etc.) as well as from our own ListeningLounge.
• HD FLAC – this album really sounds great in high definition (24/88.2). You can buy and download audiophile files from HDTracks.com and we will also sell a special double CD package that contains the files in FLAC form. This HD FLAC package will be a very limited run and will only be available from our website and at our concerts.
You can find more info about the release on the album page.
Thursdsay Morning I rode the Mariachi Bullitt to have breakfast with Jon. I use a New York-sized chain to lock it up. :-) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Check out the index as he has phtographed quite a few cities around the world, inlcuding Shanghai, Beijing, Las Vegas, Rome. Check out the Pantheon here – since it is a flash site, you’ll have to navigate to photograph number 3 yourself. Some fine armchair travel! ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I watched a few TED talks this week. This one, by Sam Harris, is quite good. Some of what he is saying here echoes what Ken Wilber has been talking about for some time. Flatland is wrong, some opinions are of higher value than others. My opinion on what’s wrong with your car is so worthless compared to the opinion of a car mechanic!
Other talks I watched this week: a short talk about roundabouts and a new traffic sign: New Traffic Sign: Take Turns. Here is a screenshot I made on my phone while watching the talk: A beautiful and heartfelt talk by Robert Gupta, violinist with the LA Philharmonic: Music is medicine, music is sanity. After his talk, Gupta plays his own transcription of the prelude from Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1! And The Danger of Science Denial. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• And, to balance the seriousness, check out this captivating hippo (((thanks Guy!)))!
In turn, all the black holes found so far in our universe—from the microscopic to the supermassive—may be doorways into alternate realities.
Every black hole has a white hole side…. •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
There is a sentence in the April edition of Wallpaper Magazine, that really pisses me off:
…the mass rape of East Prussian women and girls by Soviet soldiers extracting revenge for the crimes committed by Germany in Russia.
Of course this was written by a man, and what a complete and utter moron he must be. There is no excuse for rape and to claim that it was revenge is such a stupid statement that it makes the blood boil.
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Been working with an Arabic scale called Maqam Nakriz. The F is sharp and the B and E are flat: D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C, D
Note the big three half-tone step between the Eb and the F#. Nice scale, very evocative. Here is the first music sketch using that scale, recorded at the dining table with my iPhone and the original Blue Mikey:
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Leonardo da Vinci was born today, in 1452.
April 15, 1452: It’s the Renaissance, Man! 1452: Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest multitalented artists in our history, is born in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci. Painter, sculptor, anatomist, architect, engineer, geologist: The labels don’t even begin to describe him.
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Nice Tim Prebble remix of a classical music piece by New Zealand composer John Psathas. More info here.
Grey Morning, soft light. Old tree stump carvings on Acequia Madre: Pink blossoms, white skulls, adobe wall: I don’t tire of this chimney. I have passed it, sometimes several times a week, for over twenty years. While there is always a thrill is seeing something new, experiencing a place for the first time, I do cherish visiting these familiar places over and over again. Walking home after a long night out, leaning on each other. The one on the right seems to be the drunkest. Anfänger! I have no idea what the point of this is, not that there needs to be one. Protecting the tree from cellular or Wi-Fi radiation? This is Santa Fe, after all. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Thinking of a career in music, are you? Take a good look at this graphic first – I found it here. It shows how much you have to sell to earn minimum wage – $1,160 per month. Yep, very difficult in today’s digital world. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• We updated our Under the Rose webpage, after I noticed that the charity Rahim had picked folded at the end of December. He left it up to me and I picked the International Red Cross, which has an Iraq program on its donation page.
Video is just about better than film now. Check this out, shot at 800ASA with two 100W light bulbs… Beautiful!
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