I wanted to share the website of a graphic artist who has been doing a lot of great work both commercially but also as a result of the evolving music community that we are seeing all around us.
Eskmo is a project of producer, Brendan Angelides, based out of San Francisco who has been doing some incredible things with the power of music production and bringing around some music that serves to speak to a generation ready to usher in a new yet ancient way of life.
Delving and Dealing with the dubstep sound that has had a rise and seems like a fall out over the past 5years considering the growing numbers of people around the globe tuning into it.
The topic is to try to overrstand, through participation and observation, the flows and cycles of a 'sound' and how it can attracts 'scenes' of people who support them as well as draw away people from it.
"Bass waves rather than high frequency sounds. Bass permeates through your body, binding you to the music, allowing you to become part of its rhythm and soul" - Random youtube guy
Last Friday I received a last minute call to open for Chris Berry and Panjea at the Kinetic Playground in Chicago. I was very excited as Panjea is an amazing group from Africa which often features Michael Kang from the String Cheese Incident.
The Fabian Guerra Jr. Benefit show was one of the most amazing musical/ emotional experiences of my life. I cried for the first time ever on stage. This happened during a duet between our vocalists Dana Okon and Kelly Kruse, the tune was written after our ex manager and dear friend Fabian was killed in a car accident in June.
Jammin’ on the Wolf was amazing!!!! There's nothing like being on the road with your band for a few days, camping, and tubing down a river. We used my Eden rig as the back line all weekend and everyone loved that deep thumpidy thump.
It’s been a great week. I spent the 4th of July weekend with my favorite people; my family. We BBQ’d all weekend and caught the fireworks over Fox Lake IL.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
