Album #: 97 Recording Dates: 2016 – 2018 Release Date: 2019 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Keep Your Kool is another strong collection of improvisational songs from the Café Royd studio. Nerves are on tap as tales of circus tragedy, primate boxing, insomnia, landlords and so much more haunt this fun set of tracks. Three Track Sampler Track 01 – Circus Girl …
Album #: 96 Recording Dates: May, 2018 Release Date: 2019 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: In keeping with tradition, Farm Jam 8 took place in May 2018. Farm Jam VIII is Ba presents highlights from this event. I was not in attendance for this multi-day event but do appear on a studio track also included in the collection. No Track Sampler …
Album #: 95 Recording Dates: 2015 – 2018 Release Date: 2018 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: The new Café Royd studio got settled and our pace of jamming picked up. All this new Sheep Fiends raw material necessitated a lot of mixing work which Brian C. and I both took on with gusto. This increased activity led to a very strong …
Album #: 93 Recording Dates: 2016 Release Date: 2017 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: This Sheep Fiends release is mostly comprised of improv material from late 2016 and early 2017, right around the time I was trying to buy a house and move an hour closer to my job. I only appear on a few tracks here, upon which my performance …
Album #: 92 Recording Dates: May 2016 Release Date: 2017 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: You know the story by now. It’s Farm Jam! For a sixth consecutive year we braved the horrors of Ohio in quest of Pennsylvania solitude. Well, solitude with access to ice cream and Budweiser. Tracks are less about the drive and farm this time around, and …
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Album #: 91 Recording Dates: 2011 – 2015 Release Date: 2016 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: The first five farm jams events resulted in a huge collection of recordings. We realized each farm jam had a few tracks we were fond of that did not make it on the official album. So that’s the rabbit hole that led to this collection …
Album #: 90 Recording Dates: 2015 – 2016 Release Date: 2016 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: I was largely MIA from the Sheep Fiends in 2015 as Brian began getting the Cafe Royd sessions underway. I had a horrific commute to work and wasn’t up to a few more hours on the weekends. So I just play on a few tracks …
Album #: 89 Recording Dates: 2015 Release Date: 2016 Catalog: SF ScratchNotes: Once we started going out to Pennsylvania every year for a weekend of farm rocking it just kept going. Here is a collection of the best recordings from the fifth annual edition of Farm Jam – Varm Jam! Three Track Sampler Track 06 – Shoshanna (Sheep Fiends) – So …
