[listen] I put together a 9-piece rock/orchestral band in 2009 and we are just about to release our first EP.

Here are three pieces from our first EP, which has about ten songs. After over a decade of doing nothing with my music and compositions, I finally got off my ass and put together a nine piece band. The process has been taxing, and I am lucky to have made it this far.

E.g., I know very little about recording, production and live sound methodology. Over the past 2 years I have learned quite a bit in a trial by fire, but mostly about how to get these things done and how to function as a band. If this music doesn't make your ears bleed, feel free to ask me anything. From the very beginning there was a lot of stuff I wish someone had told me about managing a band like this. Perhaps our process can help others.

Young Gods / Hikikomori

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KJZuabzeG8

The Fold / Ballad of Jon Frum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGMZFv9Lf8

Mistakes Are Fair (part I)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUrgyds18vs

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Credits

James Bailey: drums, percussion

Rachel Emmons: violin, viola, cello

Eve Gross: vocals, piano, Hammond organ, marimba, percussion

Andrew Hekman: Rhodes piano, guitar, e-bow, percussion, glockenspiel, vibraphone

Monica Hui Hekman: vocals

Steven Hilferty: bass guitar

Seth Lutske: cello

Chris Meng: lap steel, guitar, synth/noise, percussion, saxophone, flute, banjo, horn, marimba

Jimmy Olivo (me): vocals, piano, marimba, percussion, guitar, e-bow, melotron, bass guitar

Jonathan Piper: tuba

Note

I posted these on Friday but deleted the post because I'd somehow messed up the YouTube uploads.