"MOSTLY IMPROVISED" MUSIC FROM CHICAGO

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7/28/11

ASY - Western Movement

Recorded to cassette tape with a Panasonic 'Mini Cassette Recorder' on July 25 at the Chateau. All sounds made live on acoustic guitar. Preparations include: skewer stick, cigarette lighter.

Western Movement

Andrew Scott Young - prepared acoustic guitar

6/23/11

Tiger Hatchery Summer Tour Recordings


Tiger Hatchery went on tour just now (May & June) and I recorded seven of our shows with the zoom H4. Here they are:

SEATTLE, WA
one
two
three

OAKLAND, CA
one
two (w/Aram Shelton)
three

TEMPE, AZ
one
two

ATLANTA, GA
one

NEW HAVEN, CT
one (incomplete)

DETROIT, MI
one
two
three

CINCINNATI, OH
one
two

TIGER HATCHERY:
Mike Forbes - sax
Ben Billington - drums
Andrew Scott Young - bass

Forbes/Young Duet @ Enemy


These are jams that made up the FYD set at Enemy in Chicago on Thursday, June 16, 2011. We were just coming off a month long tour with Tiger Hatchery but still hadn't played as a duet for nearly a year. Now that Mike's out of Chicago again this might stand as the only new FYD material for another year! Last jam features Jacob Heule (of Ettrick) on drum set! All tracks recorded with the zoom H4. Recording's a little over-driven but I think it sounds pretty cool.

Forbes/Young Duet w/Jacob Heule @ Enemy

Mike Forbes - sax
Andrew Scott Young - double bass
Jacob Heule - drums

Track 1

Track 2

Track 3

Track 4

5/2/11

ASY - Insect Whistle

This track was recorded in March with the zoom h4. It's me trying more new things with a mixer, electric bass, and casio keyboard. More beats. VERY different stuff from the ASY most of you know and tolerate.

DANCE! NOW!

ASY - Insect Whistle

3/19/11

ASY - Warm White Light

This is a jam I made late at night on March 17, 2011. All sounds made by mixer feedback and electric guitar, recorded with the zoom H4, and mixed on my computer. BEATS? you decide.

Warm White Light

3/8/11

HEAT DEATH

Heath Death began as a guitar duo with Ryley Walker and Jay Caston. After their first and only performance (which was at the Mopery), Ryley and Mike Forbes began using the name for several different configurations of a group with J Guy Laughlin. And now J Guy decided to adopt the name for a quartet with Ryley, Jeff Host, and me. So here's the new Heat Death:

Track 1

Track 2

Recorded at the Chateau on 2/28/11 with the zoom h4.

Ryley Walker - guitar
Jeff Host - guitar
Andrew Scott Young - bass
J Guy Laughlin - drums

3/6/11

ASY - Tour Solo Set

Last month, Ben Billington (Quicksails) and I went on a short tour around the midwest/eastcoast. I recorded five nights of the eight and I think this is the one that turned out best. The set I played each night of this tour was made up of three short pieces. All the sounds are made on "prepared" acoustic bass. The preparations involved electric toothbrushes, drumsticks, and pie plates. Here they are:

ASY - live at the Red Room in Baltimore, MD

track 1

track 2

track 3

1/26/11

Wyoming w/J Guy & Ben Billington

These were jams recorded on the 21st of January, right after Ben and I got back from another rehearsal. Ryley, Ben, and I had already sort of wound down from doing some jams before J Guy came over. After his arrival though with Ben on some minimal percussion and J Guy manning the drums, we got a second wind and recorded the results:

Wyoming w/J Guy & Ben Billington

Part One

Part Two

Ryley Walker - electric guitar
Andrew Scott Young - double bass
Ben Billington - percussion
J Guy Laughlin - drumset

1/25/11

Ben Billington/Andrew Scott Young/Jeff Host

Me and Ben jammed the other day and later Host came over to do the same. Recorded @ The Chateau on January 18th or so on the ZoomH4 digital recorder.

Ben Billington - drums
Jeff Host - electric guitar
Andrew Scott Young - electric guitar

Billington/Young 1

Billington/Young 2

Billington/Young 3

Billington/Host/Young

1/23/11

3 Pieces for 7 Acoustic Guitars

On Friday, January 21 this performance was broadcast on WHPK's Pure Hype show. There were three "compositions" for 7 acoustic guitars.

One

Two

Three

These people played guitar:

Ryley Walker
Jeff Host
Brian Sulpizio
Nathan Pruitt
Aaron Zarzutzki
J Guy Laughlin
Andrew Scott Young

And it was awesome.

1/21/11

WYOMING

WYOMING - 9 ZONES WITH BRIAN SULPIZIO

So Ryley and I were out wandering one day. Well, I should make it clear that Ryley was wandering and I was wondering. But whilst on our way we both happened upon Brian J. Sulpizio. He asked us where we were going and when we hesitated to give him our reply (because under the circumstances neither of us were particularly interested in going anywhere) he proceeded with great haste to convince us to travel with him on a mysterious quest. So then caught without any excuse, preparation, or supplies, save the guitars on our backs, we reluctantly began our journey into the zones.

Audio documentation made with the Zoom H4 digital recorder at the Chateau on January 18, 2011.


Wyoming:
Ryley Walker - guitar
Andrew Scott Young - guitar, bass

featuring:
Brian J. Sulpizio - drums & shit