Added the new project, HUGHES to bandcamp - It is now up for free download.
7/30/13
5/13/13
4/22/13
12/10/12
11/26/12
Brooklyn Vegan showed some love for the new album last week.
I re-mastered and uploaded my whole discography (beginning in 2005) on the Bandcamp page, I've been wanting to do this for a long time just to show the progression of styles into what SIF has now become. Feel free to explore and download it all for free.
2007
Recorded in Audacity, sprinkled heavily with samples sourced from pornography, exorcisms, family videos, evangelists, my cat and more. This album and Haircuts were recorded around the same time - so it has a lot of the same lo-fi noise glaze from Douglas Raber that was in Haircuts. Doug also plays trombone in a few songs and features his son Sebastian on triangle throughout the record. This release is best broken into fourths: one quarter noise, a quarter folk satire, quarter ambient, and quarter just plain WTF. This album explores more into noise-based territory and is easily influenced by bands like XiuXiu with tracks like DammDoo and Calloused Penis. This self titled explores just as much folk satire with songs like "the first time you have sex" and "Raab to Columbia" but still contains some key ambient tracks that were originally performed live first and then recorded such as: Quilts, Pheremones and 2 Months.
2006
This is why we cant have nice things is more of an experimental electronica release, with lots of synthesizers, drum machines, melodicism, and acoustic guitar. A lot of samples recorded from my shitty Sprint phone, Glen Miller, broken turntables, voicemails, evangelists, and self help videos. Besides the first two tracks this album stays in more of an experimental nature with uncertain pop tendencies vulnerable to be abandoned at any minute.
Recorded in Audacity, sprinkled heavily with samples sourced from pornography, exorcisms, family videos, evangelists, my cat and more. This album and Haircuts were recorded around the same time - so it has a lot of the same lo-fi noise glaze from Douglas Raber that was in Haircuts. Doug also plays trombone in a few songs and features his son Sebastian on triangle throughout the record. This release is best broken into fourths: one quarter noise, a quarter folk satire, quarter ambient, and quarter just plain WTF. This album explores more into noise-based territory and is easily influenced by bands like XiuXiu with tracks like DammDoo and Calloused Penis. This self titled explores just as much folk satire with songs like "the first time you have sex" and "Raab to Columbia" but still contains some key ambient tracks that were originally performed live first and then recorded such as: Quilts, Pheremones and 2 Months.
This is why we cant have nice things is more of an experimental electronica release, with lots of synthesizers, drum machines, melodicism, and acoustic guitar. A lot of samples recorded from my shitty Sprint phone, Glen Miller, broken turntables, voicemails, evangelists, and self help videos. Besides the first two tracks this album stays in more of an experimental nature with uncertain pop tendencies vulnerable to be abandoned at any minute.
2005
Recorded all on a friends 4-track, had no idea what I was doing at the time, learning as I go. Very Vulnerable album with a lot more lyricism and prose than on any other release. Experimental, and all over the place - similar to the 2007 self titled album. Occcasionally melodic but mostly deconstructing soundscapes broken up by nursing home noise tracks, hardcore, folk-pop,Yamaha drum loops and maniacal fits of prose as fast as they can come out of my mouth. Very vulnerable album.
Recorded all on a friends 4-track, had no idea what I was doing at the time, learning as I go. Very Vulnerable album with a lot more lyricism and prose than on any other release. Experimental, and all over the place - similar to the 2007 self titled album. Occcasionally melodic but mostly deconstructing soundscapes broken up by nursing home noise tracks, hardcore, folk-pop,Yamaha drum loops and maniacal fits of prose as fast as they can come out of my mouth. Very vulnerable album.
11/18/12
11/11/12
10/30/12
Swim Ignorant Fire has been added to the Endless Field roster and was interviewed about the new album, Weddings & Funerals.
I will be doing a small weekend tour with my friends in Handsome Tyrants
Here is the schedule thus far:
Fri. 7th - St. Louis @ Mush Maus w/ Erik Hall
Sat. 8th - BloNo @ Marilyn Mansion w/ Hastas
Sun. 9th Chicago @ The Whip w/ Golden Birthday & Jimmy Whispers
I will be doing a small weekend tour with my friends in Handsome Tyrants
Here is the schedule thus far:
Fri. 7th - St. Louis @ Mush Maus w/ Erik Hall
Sat. 8th - BloNo @ Marilyn Mansion w/ Hastas
Sun. 9th Chicago @ The Whip w/ Golden Birthday & Jimmy Whispers
8/8/12
4/12/12
11/22/11
New Review of Last Days from Sound Colour Vibration
Weddings & Funerals is slowly coming to completion, Here's a preview of whats to come in 201234:
11/1/11
10/25/11
10/3/11
VEYOU - Carcass in the Mist Review
"Half machines and half atmosphere,
the pair capture most of what’s right with experimental music in the
time it takes most folks to decide they’ll scrap their set." - AnimalPSI
9/29/11
Final Tweaks on the upcoming Archaic Smile 7" are in progress; while custom artwork by Pete Bialecki are now being printed..
Here is a sneak peak at how things are molding:
The new VEYOU is now available through Pilgrim Talk
mp3 can be found there.
8/27/11
8/24/11
7/21/11
The Archaic Smile
I will be playing all new material set for the upcoming EP, Weddings & Funerals on July 25th in between bands at the new venue, Ultra Lounge.
A new recording project has been in embryo over the last few months and is finally coming together;
all source material coming from this release has been stemmed from a mushroom induced collaboration of skin on a kitchen countertop. More and More max patches have been built in processing these sounds to get an oddly amusing turnout and the project has been appropriately titled, The Archaic Smile.
More details coming soon......
A new recording project has been in embryo over the last few months and is finally coming together;
all source material coming from this release has been stemmed from a mushroom induced collaboration of skin on a kitchen countertop. More and More max patches have been built in processing these sounds to get an oddly amusing turnout and the project has been appropriately titled, The Archaic Smile.
More details coming soon......
5/20/11
5/1/11
Carcass in the Mist
New Veyou Tape is now available through Pilgrim Talk
Veyou is a duo collaboration between myself and Nick Hoffman (Pilgrim Talk / Scissor Death) and this tape commemorates our only live performance at Metal Shaker, which was last winter while I was on tour with Boar.
The bar and room itself becomes an accompanying instrument along with this desolate and dynamic performance: bathroom door creaks, winter coughs, and glass/bar chatter - It really pulls you into to not only focus on the music but the activity inside the room.
audio samples and more info available at pilgrimtalk.com
50 copies - silkscreened covers by NH
$6 ppd US
Veyou is a duo collaboration between myself and Nick Hoffman (Pilgrim Talk / Scissor Death) and this tape commemorates our only live performance at Metal Shaker, which was last winter while I was on tour with Boar.
The bar and room itself becomes an accompanying instrument along with this desolate and dynamic performance: bathroom door creaks, winter coughs, and glass/bar chatter - It really pulls you into to not only focus on the music but the activity inside the room.
audio samples and more info available at pilgrimtalk.com
50 copies - silkscreened covers by NH
$6 ppd US
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