Friday, January 30, 2009

Y La Bamba tonight in Seattle

Tonight my band Y La Bamba will be playing at the High Dive in Seattle. The show is for the Origami Ghosts CD release. We will also be joined by Webelos and Serendipity Music. Origami Ghosts are a unique band who play catchy well thought out early 90's sounding indie rock with a hint of Eastern influence. Great band and good people. Serndipity Music is Cellist Serena Tideman who can be found touring with Mum and Rasputina. Her songs are really beautiful. I'm really excited to be playing with everyone tonight and to see all my Seattle friends. The show starts and 9pm and we are on first so be sure to get there early. Also call me if you want to hang out as we will be in Seattle at 5pm messing around.





And then tomorrow we will be at Backspace an all ages venue in downtown Portland. Again we go on first and the show starts at 9pm.



Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of my favorite piano players. I never really got into the Yellow Magic Orchestra much. Kind of the Danny Elfman of Japan. I'm sure it was cool in its day. I absolutely love his newer compositions. Here is a video of Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence from the album 1996

Also really wish I could have been here:

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

My goals

So I have decided that my goal surrounding this blog besides sharing music info with you will be to share mainly synchronicities throughout my days, dreams, and anything else interesting I may come across. I will try as hard as I can not to babble or waste your time. Every story I tell you will be completely truthful unless I warn you otherwise.

Synchronicity #1

So sometimes the only reason I leave my house is so that I might run into someone who might give me a job. I imagine someone running after me shouting my name. "David Kyle, David Kyle, wait I have a job for you." Sometimes that is all you can do is to imagine and send your hopes out to the world and wait for it to call your name. And you better be paying attention because you might miss the cues. I really believe these connections exist in our everyday lives and most of us just haven't learned to focus our attention.
Today I went to get a burrito at La Bonita and heard my name being called in the distance. I turned around and it was my friend Tamara running after me to see if I was willing to work for her. The answer was "yes" and now I have a way to pay rent. Thanks

Don't worry my stories will get more interesting.
This is a lie.

Monday, January 26, 2009

My First Blog

Welcome to my blog. This is something I never thought I would do, but its time to catch up with the future age. This page is here to keep you updated on my music, art, stories, and things that inspire me. Bare with me as this will take some getting used to for me.

So this is where I start.
I am unemployed reaching my final week of getting state unemployment. I have no job prospects whatsoever. Each job I apply for I am met with a line out the door of other people applying; some friends and some strangers. I never thought I would live somewhere that you have to fight for a minimum wage job. I've thought about calling it quits with music and art and moving on and just trying to lead a normal life. But all of you who know me know that that could never happen. Music and art is who I am and even if I tried I could never turn my back on that.

I am making the best music of my life and I am still not satisfied. I am way to critical of everything I do. Your psyche is a continuum of parallels and I am my own worst enemy.

The album is getting very close to being finished. I am working on finishing vocals and drum parts and then getting some other musicians in to polish it up. What I plan to do with the record I am not exactly sure. I have about 9 tracks so far for the album which will be called
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The Sun is a Microscope" The track listing thus far is this:

Worlds Tiniest Rainbow
Logical Collapse
Seconds Moving Faster
Horses on a Train
Ratasplat
These Hours
King of the Mountain
Remember to Breathe
Hope

I will be looking for artist to collaborate with for CD design, shirts, and stickers. So if you are interested send me an email.

I have plans of releasing my last album "Notes on Paper" on Gypsypop records based out of Oakland, California. Gypsypop www.gypsypoprecords.com is ran by a friend Cohen who put out the Y la Bamba record "Alida St." recorded by Luz Elena Mendoza. For those of you who don't know, I play guitar for Y La Bamba and we are currently recording a full length album this Feb. The album is being produced by Chris Funk of the Decemberists.

Ok I believe this is all for my first blog. I don't want to overwhelm anyone. I will leave you with this.

Adam Pierce of Mice Parade, one of my favorite musicians, Drums off with Doug Scharin of the infamous June of 44. This gets me really excited about music! Okay embedding has been disabled, but here is the link. Drum off Magic Enjoy!!