The Peace and Love EP

1. The Ecuador Three - Easy (Thus Do All)
2. The Ecuador Three - Gideon
3. The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs
4. The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how the band did its thing)

An easier way

Goodbye blogspot, hello tumblr

Seeing infinity

I'm not a Sasha Frere-Jones fan (due to tripe like his "Paler Shade of White" nonsense), but this really resonated:

Russell’s recording sessions were a departure from the average hit-making process: they were closer in principle to jazz than to pop or dance. Musicians received brief instructions, rehearsed equally briefly, and then played for as long as felt right. Tapes from these sessions were then edited and recombined to make multiple records, a practice common to Jamaican pop forms like dub reggae. Russell often mixed songs more than ten times, highlighting different instruments each time, seeing infinity in an inch of tape.

(re: Arthur Russell)

Wanted: Musicians (Dublin area)

I'm starting a band to play originals (and covers that I can pass of as originals) and need

• a drummer
• a bassist
• a keyboard player

If you're able to sing and/or write songs, it'd be a huge plus. Here are some tunes:

The Ecuador Three - Hey (or how the band did its thing)
The Ecuador Three - Easy (Thus Do All)
The Ecuador Three - Gideon
The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs
The Ecuador Three - Dublinism

Prog Prog Prog Prog

Prog Rock Britannia - An Observation in Three Movements (part one of three)

Pretty self-explanatory, really

Helm's Deep y'all

16 year olds write songs, 16 year olds forget about songs, 26 year old man digs up songs he wrote when 16, finally records album, thinks wistfully about how things have changed, chorus til fade... by Rob Matthews and His Mate Hamish.

Helm's Deep (102mb zip)

Handshake Drugs/Marquee Moon

Now with added cornet! (by me, not by that guy)

The Ecuador Three - Handshake Drugs