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| February, 2008 | Well, 2007 was another year of broken promises. I promised more updates last year, and instead I did less. I guess I could promise the same again, but who would believe me now? Last year did end with a bang, in the form of Tarentel's trip to Spain for the Tanned Tin Festival. In March we are going to Amsterdam to perform and visit with the good people at VPRO. I'm very excited to announce that my solo record Light In The West is going to be re-issued by Digitalis later this year. I rehauled the record for this edition, mercilessly trashing a couple of tracks from the first version and brazenly adding two new ones. After that it got polished up by Drucifer, who did a mastering job that was, well, masterful. The first 100 copies that go out will include a pressed leaf that I've collected. That's right, I've been collecting leaves, pressing them, and readying them for you. If you'd like to pre-order Light In The West, you can do so here. More updates to follow (yeah, right), but for now, hugs and kisses.

| May, 2007 | It's been a busy year people. The monstrous 4 LP release from Tarentel, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun, is OUT. I feel relieved. Also hot off the presses is a 7" release on the UK's Type Records, Home Ruckus: Double-Sided Air. You guessed it, this is part two in what looks to be an infinite series of home-based recordings. We (meaning Tarentel) just got back from the Bottled Smoke Festival in LA, which was hosted by our buddies, Digitalis Recordings. Tons of noise bands, lots of epic sounds, and heaps of independent music love. It was so exciting and encouraging to see everyone out there and to meet so many kind people. I think noise and drone musicians must be the nicest people in the music world.

| March, 2007 | All kinds of releasing going on these days. First, the last two volumes of Tarentel's 4-LP release are out, done, finished. All available at Tarentel.com or at The Music Fellowship. Also, nearly two years in the making, the brain child of Die Elektrischen and the youngest sibling in Dielectric's All-Stars trilogy, RE: Record, from the Dielectric Field Recording All-Stars, is out. A very interesting field recording-based record. I contributed the sounds of creeks, turntables, fishing boats, a few kitchen appliances, a tomato, and a squeaking red ball to this record, so... a little something different! Coming up in May is the Bottling Smoke Festival in Los Angeles, the first major festival hosted by our good friends at Digitalis Recordings. If you're anywhere near Southern California this May 25-27, try to make it.

| January, 2007 | I'm not even kidding anymore. I'm seriously considering pretending that 2006 didn't happen because that was quick, I mean really quick. I promise more updates this year. A couple of exciting items: On January 25th, Tarentel is playing a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The show is part of a retrospective of Werner Herzog's films. This particular evening is a double feature consisting of Herzog's Nosferatu, followed by the original, silent, black and white version by F.W. Murnau. We are honored to have been asked to do a live soundtrack for Murnau's version. Lots of scary vampire-like stuff. The Music Fellowship has released the first two LPs in Tarentel's new, 4-LP release, Ghetto Beats On The Surface Of The Sun. Comprised of studio and home recordings from September '04 to April '05, it's literally a ton of music. Beautiful cover art abounds, and as usual, it's limited edition! The other 2 LPs will be released later this year.

| August, 2006 | OK, seriously people. This is the year of the absolute high-speed fast-forward flying by of time. Brief summary news reporting: 1. Live Edits: Natoma, from Tarentel. Simultaneously our most acoustic and most noisy record to date. Available via Root Strata. 2. New mp3s coming soon for purposes of listening. 3. New press page coming soon for purposes of reading the comments of other people. 4. Early September show with Tarentel at Bowery Ballroom. 5. Thank you. (It's better to have 5 points. More standard.)

| June, 2006 | Holy hell people, I blinked again and now it's June! I've been very busy with many boring things, and am now leaving for the land of British people for three weeks. I will update more when I return, but in the meantime... Some reviews have been coming in for Light In The West. Read what people have to say at foxy digitalis, dead angel, and smother. Live Edits: Natoma is out and available through Root Strata. This is the latest from Tarentel, and it chronicles our last show at the venerable and legendary 964 Natoma before the hell-gods of industry shut it down. Reviews have also been coming in for Xavier and I will post links when I get back from Britannia. But suffice it to say that most of those reviews compare us to either traffic jams or ship horns. I like it!

| March, 2006 | Whoa! 2006 started like two days ago, and now it's March. What the hell?! In the news: Xavier! Part minimalist, part wall of sound, part pre-dawn dream - the first record from Santo Subito is out! It can be obtained through Accretions Records or by sending me an email. If you like bass clarinet, violin, homemade horns, piano, electronics - or more specifically, all of those things at once! - then check it out.

| December, 2005 | Holy merde! I got reviewed in French! Thank you Constantin DuBois, though I have no clue what you said. If you'd like to read the "chronique," just clique le link to Millefeuille si'il vous plait, you know. And if anyone can send me a good translation of it, I'll send you a copy of le CD. Merci! First thing in 2006 will be the release of Xavier, the first record from Santo Subito, a group I've started with my friend Steve Dye. Steve plays bass clarinet and several homemade horns with names like "The Vestigial Organ," "The Bass Flubaphone," "The Clairaphone," and other assorted strange names for his creations. I play violin and piano. Each CD features a hand-made cover. We recorded this record (just coincidentally) on the day the pope died last April, and it's finally ready to go.

| October, 2005 | I've finished an EP of solo work, called Light in the West. Layers of violin, harmonium, field recordings and other anonymous sounds, recorded mostly outside in the Marin Headlands, and some at home. You can almost hear the cold! Anyway if you want a copy, send me an email and we can negotiate a price. I promise I'll be reasonable. I'll be playing a show in El Paso on November 26th with my friend Caley O'Dwyer. I'm working on writing music to a bunch of his poems, and then he's gonna read em and I'm gonna play the music and we're just gonna see how that turns out. It's what's commonly referred to as a cross-disciplinary experiment, but we're gonna stick with "setting poems to music." A whole new batch of mp3s are on the page called mp3s.

| September, 2005 | It's been a busy summer. Lots of recording and playing and listening to sounds in the woods in the middle of the night. Home Ruckus is out, in all its beautiful and very limited edition splendor. Each cover and LP label is hand-painted and hand-printed. Available via Root Strata or Aquarius Records. Come to L.A. in October - I'll be playing on the 1st at the MoCA. In November there will be a show at an undisclosed location in El Paso, TX. Things are getting weird!

| May, 2005 | Ghost Weight is out! And available at Tarentel.com. Home Ruckus is next. Keep an eye on the Root Strata web site.

| April, 2005 | A little late announcing this, but I co-wrote a piece of music with cellist Zoe Keating that was featured in Frozen Angels, a documentary which explores the social and scientific repercussions of high-end reproductive technology, and which was featured at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It will also screen at Toronto HotDocs and the Nyon Festival International de Cinema. Paper White and Big Black Square are out and can be acquired via mail order at Tarentel.com. Rumor has it that Ghost Weight will finally be coming out on Acuarela, though the release date is not set in stone. Home Ruckus, the latest Tarentel opus, will be released next month on Root Strata. This will be a 12" LP, and features all home-recorded material, including some loops and contact mic work from me. Last, I'm currently working on a few projects: a collaboration with bass clarinetist Steven Dye, a collaboration with J.C. Ledesma, and a solo record, all of which I hope will be out by the end of the summer.

| February, 2005 | Paper White and Big Black Square are out and can be acquired via mail order at Tarentel.com. The official release date is in March, but they're available now! There are a few new performances listed on the shows page.

| December, 2004 | Anthony Bonet, a good friend, lead singer of the brilliant band A Night of Serious Drinking, and erstwhile booker at the Bottom of the Hill, has suffered an aneurysm and has been in the hospital for quite some time. There are many people, myself included, who are dreadfully worried for him. There will be a benefit show at the Bottom of the Hill on December 16th, at which I will be joining Laughingstock for a portion of their set. Also playing are American Music Club and Etienne De Rocher. Please come out and help support Anthony. We Move Through Weather has been out for a month! It's available directly from Tarentel, or you can get it through Temporary Residence or Aquarius Records, among others. Look for three EP releases in approximately March of 2004: Paper Whiteand Big Black Square will be released by Temporary Residence, and Ghost Weight will be released by Acuarela Discos.

| September, 2004 | 1. Another small piece of my writing was published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Click here: An Open Letter to Hummingbirds 2. In early November, We Move Through Weather, the new opus from Tarentel, will be released in both CD and 2LP formats. Both are equally beautiful and feature lots of nice art in the inserts. I'm very proud of this record. You can pre-order it now at Temporary Residence. After November 2, it will be available everywhere. 3. Early next year, there will be 3 more CDEPs by Tarentel, all the fruit of our sessions last January: Ghost Weight will be released by Acuarela Discos in Spain; Paper Whiteand Big Black Square will be released by Temporary Residence.

| July 12, 04 | Neurot Recordings has just released Various Artists, Volume 1 a double CD/DVD compilation. Tarentel and filmmaker Paul Clipson contributed to this compilation in the form of a piece called Put It On the Ground. I played with Tarentel on this piece and also did the recording. It's available for just 10 bucks on the Neurot website, or at Amazon.com. Last month, I read my Open Letter to Penguins on a new-ish public radio show called Public Radio Weekend. This piece was previously published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and it was the kind people at McSweeney's who arranged for the reading. You can hear a webcast of it by clicking here.