Years ago, I found these old home-cut 78′s among my grandfather’s records. There were three of them, containing a number of songs performed by my great-grandparents, Agnes and Peter Mullen. I thought they had been lost or destroyed, but I found them! They’re pretty beat up, but I was able to transcribe ‘em thanks to my trusty (and slowly dying) Califone portable record player. Still very noisy, but they are, as far as I know, the only recordings of my great-grandfather – who it turns out was quite the piano player!
Listening to these reminds me of the scene in Touch of Evil when Orson Welles pays Marlene Dietrich a visit and reminisces about her pianola…
When labels like Editions RZ and Tochnit Aleph keep putting great stuff out,
I must reach for my wallet. Sometimes it’s nice to not have to get up and flip a record.
Playing some shows this week w/ Stefano Pilia, who is visiting from Italy!
For this hometown show, I’ll be playing w/ Kumo no Kumo in a special quartet version with Scott Reber, Cybele Collins, and Sakiko Mori. The show will start “on time”
My new album of solo music, Accidental Guitars, is out now on REL records. very happy w/ the way it came out – nicely silk-screened covers w/ inserts and pressed on heavy vinyl. you can buy a copy from me, direct from the label, or at any one of REL’s distributors – mimaroglu music sales, forced exposure, and boomkat will have their copies later this week…You can listen to it here and visit the label here
You can also buy the record from me, just click on the Available Releases
