Saturday January 16th @ 3PM PST

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BAY AREA BANDS Kirsty Evans —  Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 9:09 AM

The Lost Songs of Otto Mobile (Brave Scarecrow Records)
Supposedly inspired by a dream visit from singer Matt Lundquist’s great-great-grand-uncle Otto, this rollicking tribute to the old days is classic Americana. Boozy, twangy, and often rather funny — this is what country sounded like before it went pop, when it still had the blues.
At Simple Pleasures (3434 Balboa St., San Francisco) on January 4. 8 p.m., free
At Freight & Salvage (2020 Addison St., Berkeley) on January 7. 8 p.m., $14.50, $15.50

Sat 01/09/10 Tucson, AZ
Solar Culture

Sun 01/10/10 San Diego, CA
Bar Pink

Mon 01/11/10 Echo Park, CA
Echo Curio

Wed 01/13/10 Fresno, CA
Tokyo Gardens

Thurs 01/14/10 San Francisco, CA
Cafe Du Nord

All shows with Dominique Leone.
Follow me on twitter for updates during the tour: @trazmick

I’m excited about this trip because:
a.) I’ve never been to Arizona.
b.) I’m taking my new Messenger electric upright bass.
c.) I’m listening to some of Dominique Leone’s music right now and its damn good.
d.) Average temperature of destinations: 70°C!

Spinnerty – “Feels Like Rain” (feat. Elliott Peck and Czar Absolute)

Our track, Feel Like Rain, we did with Spinnerty is gettin some love right now on the internets. Blogs blahblahblahscience and hype machine in particular. Thanks everyone.

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At some point last year, someone suggested to me: “check out this guy Spinnerty,” including a link to “Sweet Soul.” I instantly dug the vibe, it reminded me some of Adriana Evans’ songs from the early 1990s or a track that would have gotten some love at Nickies BBQ in the Haight. I should have already known this was out of the Bay but for whatever reason, I thought it was from Seattle. I also couldn’t quite figure out who Elliott Peck was but I’m assuming it’s the female singer on here…the fact that she’s named “Elliott” is both strange and cool.

It wasn’t until I was actually on Haight, at the Groove Merchant, listening to Spinnerty’s latest 45, “Feels Like Rain” that I discovered: duh, Spinnerty, 1) isn’t a group. It’s a guy and 2) he’s currently living in the Bay (though he’s originally from the Midwest).

As much as I liked “Sweet Soul,” I really, really, really loved “Feels Like Rain.” I credit those sweeping vocals looped up in the background but this is so easy to throw onto single-song repeat and just keep playing it over and over. Peck is back, this time credited as “EP” and joining her is rapper Czar Absolute who drops two small verses. The song works better with vocals but there’s nothing wrong with flipping the instrumental on as a lovely bit of background.

Labels: 45s, hip-hop, new music, soul/funk

http://soul-sides.com/2009/07/spinnerty-feel-sweet-soul.html

[Nice to get some press, especially from the venerable music journalist, Oliver Wang. The Feels Like Rain EP dropped a few months before the Sweet Soul EP. And poor Elliott, no one ever spells her name right...haha.]

DRT YRT – Sounds From Unknown Animals

Recorded over 4th of July 2009 in Mendocino, CA
By Martin & Connor
Vocals on “First Morning” by Elliott.
Mixed in San Francisco the following week.
8 Songs, 23.6 Minutes, 33.3MB, 192kbps MP3s

Tracklisting:
01 First Morning 3:43
02 On What 4:48
03 A Barn That Speaks 2:15
04 DRT Tape 1:34
05 Fantasy 3:28
06 Quinoa 2:22
07 Danger Diamonds 3:15
08 Leaving Here 2:13

Enjoy! What an experience it was making this music!

Similar to the first DRT YRT album, the artwork is a collage of photographs from the sessions in Mendocino. Martin took all the pictures this time around with his Canon DSLR and fixed focus lens.  Currently we’re mixing the music…we are almost finished.  I’m going to try and post the link to download the album this weekend.

We’re kicking around the title Sounds From Unknown Animals. Saturday night there was a loud animal on the property that was making some very strange noises, kind of like a long cough but with a lot of force.  Its hard to explain.  Now we were a little scared, but it was nothing like this.  Martin was up on the property a few weeks prior and heard the same thing while sitting on the roof.  I was trying to turn off all the lights in the barn at the end of the night and kept hearing the noise and got a little freaked out when everyone ran back inside leaving me out there alone with the animal. So thats the inspiration for the title of the album.

Commitment-wise (see: unemployment) its looking like we will have some free time this Fall, so DRT YRT record #3 could be right around the corner.

We’ve come along way on our next record and I really hope to have it finished by the end of the year (?).  Right now we thinking about making the entire album in mp3 format available for free.  We don’t have the money right now to press cds or vinyl or anything.  Elliott wants some vinyl pressed, but I think that we should put it out there first and see where it goes. Speaking of free mp3s, I’m going to be posting the mp3s from, Breath and Pages our first album from 2007 here soon, so stay up!  I’m gonna post some other zips of stuff we’ve worked on as well in the near future.

Finally, I’ve got to get the site of Trazmick Recordings (trazmickrecordings.com) up and functioning so peeps can order physical copies of the catalog (cd, 45s, etc.). The label has been mired in internet purgatory for too long now.  Blame it on the recession.