The Mistleturds are back this holiday season, and our new song is packed with loads of Christmas-spirited stupidity!
“No Elf on the Shelf” was a family and friends effort, and we had a lot of fun making it. Just like our last song, it’s loud, fast, silly and shitty. Enjoy!
You can listen on Bandcamp or YouTube! If you’d like to download on Bandcamp – name your price. Money from all sales go to Be The Match, which matches patients with donors for life-saving blood stem cell transplants.
A set of poems I wrote, called “Holy Human Waters” will be part of this really intriguing show. If you are in Tokyo, please try to make it. You can read the poems there, of course, but they will also be part of the live music and dance. Japanese butoh, music, photography and poetry – what more could you want?
This may surprise some people, but I’m a country music fan. Maybe that came from living in Texas for seven years.
Well, last winter I was going through a rough interpersonal time, and out of that came my first country song. I wrote the lyrics and then recorded the whole thing in my crap voice. It took almost a year to find a real singer and turn it into something good. To my great fortune and honor, that singer was able to bring his whole amazing band in on the project.
I hope you enjoy Rivulets, by Language of the Birds.
You can listen to the song here!
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Thoughts of shadowy geopolitics, troll farms and unnecessary war gave rise to a poem. That poem then became the lyrics to this dark song — featuring guitar by Signal Box and Pia’s voice, which brings the piece a special kind of desperate, nihilistic beauty.
You can listen to the song here.
To read the original poem, go here!
Yes, I release a lot of unconventional work. But this one might just take the cake.
The first track of Great Blue Heron incorporates a live performance by Nathan Anspaugh, featuring my words. Musician Sheonator Pseak is on the hurdy gurdy. The second track is a remix, taken in a different and wintery direction by Mark R. Heath. I also want to credit Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche’s great book In Love with the World, from which selections are partially used.
Close your eyes, inhabit a heron, and let these sounds take you to hitherto unexplored places.
You can listen to the songs on Bandcamp here!
To read the original piece, go here.
Lost in a State 