Aram Shelton Trevor Healy Rooz 8-27-2007

Played a long open set with the guitarist Trevor Healy last night at Rooz Cafe, a spot on Park blvd in Oakland. I met Trevor a few months back when the Pink Canoes played at the Luggage Store, he'd recently moved out this way from New York. We finally had a chance to get together to play last month at his practice space in San Francisco. I really liked what I heard - experimentation balanced with patience. We played for about an hour at Rooz this night, which is a newer space in Oakland - we took our time building different sections and allowed things to materialize. The acoustics of the room - a very live room - made us hold back a bit, but overall I was real happy with the music. I think Trevor was even able to record it to his minidisc but I haven't been able to hear it yet.

Pink Canoes KFJC 8-18-2007

Went down to Los Altos, Ca on a sunny Saturday afternoon. It's only about an hour's drive from Oakland going over the San Mateo bridge. I rode down with Noah and Travis - Noah had just flown back in from New York the night before. We met Zach at the radio station at Foothill Community College. He showed up in his new ride - a pristine 1981 Benz Sedan that he just picked up. Very nice bio-diesel. It was really a gorgeous afternoon with the golden hills that are bountiful this time of year. So, instead of enjoying that, we went inside of a radio station to play some music.
KFJC is out of range to hear up in Oakland, but from the posters I saw on their walls, I wish it was - lots of interesting music dating back a few decades. Bay area radio has a long way to go - KALX needs to pick it up!
We set up all our equipment in a triangular shaped room surrounded by music and played for about an hour on the radio. They're signal kept going out before and after we played, but for some reason the tower kept the power going for our set.

The music turned out real well - with a good range of activity - drones, noisy, active, energy. Turned out that me and my processing are a little dominant in the recording that went out in the airwaves and there's a crazy polarity issue too. check it out:

I made this Flash Music Player at MyFlashFetish.com.