Okay, so this one is a little different!

Martian Favela Funk, New Weird Brazilian Peanut Butter Conspiracy…or something. You Decide!

My buddy featherbeard is a man about town, and upon playing me a progression he came up with on his ukulele, I suggested we make a tune out of it…here it is. This was a truly magical day of recording. All these amazing musicians graciously dropped by the studio to lace the track…and in one day it was done.

enjoy?

haha

gabe

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Vocals and Ukulele: featherbeard
Guitar: Josh Lopez and Marcel Camargo
Keys: Aaron Arntz
Vibes: Nick Mancini
Bass and Programming: Gabe Noel
Drums and Perc: Just About Everyone
Women’s Choir: Miss KK, Chloe Park, Michelle Miskovich, Anna Simpson, Azalia Snail, Rachel Bar-Gadda, and Holland Greco

Lyrics by featherbeard
Music by featherbeard and Gabe Noel
Recorded by KamranV and John Gillilan in the Bedrock Room @ Bedrock Studios
Mastered by John Wood
Produced by Gabe Noel

artwork courtesy of Allison Grant.

lyrics:

vosotros
This is the third in a series of five songs – released weekly – culminating in an upcoming EP entitled vosotros presents: Rhoda.

(week two) (week one)

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As part of the Rhoda series, I wanted to reach out to friends from varying musical backgrounds. This particular song features a long time collaborator and friend of vosotros- Mike Gao. I have learned so much from Mike…he is so creative, using the computer like an instrument. We began sending tracks back and forth, adding and subtracting elements, boiling down ideas until the final product emerged. The trio of drums featured throughout the song are called batá, ceremonial instruments of the Lukumí, recorded in 2007 during the Quiet Orchestra sessions. I hope you enjoy I thought There’d be Lions (First Follower).

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written, recorded, and produced by Mike Gao and Gabe Noel. masteted by john wood.

This is the second in a series of five songs – released weekly – culminating in an upcoming EP entitled vosotros presents: Rhoda.

(week one)

back in the DJ room

Willoughby

Mia Doi Todd (with Michel Gondry on drums & Gabe Noel on bass)

Ja Prawn (the band formerly known as Everybody)

Shoulda  (Charles Altura, Jody Giachello, Zach Harmon, Gabe Noel)

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About a month ago, John gave me an album entitled Follow The Music: A Commemorative Sampler of Elektra’s Pre-Rock Era. Essentially a collection of folk music, I quickly became enamored with a number of different elements of these recordings. The intentional: the simple forms of the songs, the directness of the lyrical meaning. As well as the elements inherent of the time period in which they were recorded: The fuzzy, consonant-shy vocal sonority, the time constraints of recording vinyl, the hiss and scratch of vintage technology. Using all these elements as criterion for the composition, I began. This simple song encapsulates an entire relationship in three and one half minutes, and features one of Los Angeles’ most creative musicians, Mia Doi Todd.

I hope you enjoy “New Farmer”.

gabe

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vosotros

Mia Doi Todd- Vocals
Rob Hardt- Flutes
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson- Viola
Marcel Camargo- Guitar
Larry Goldings- Celeste
Nat Mcintosh- Tuba
Gabe Noel- Programing

written, recorded, and mixed by Gabe Noel. mastered by Nate Wood.

artwork courtesy of Allison Grant.

This is the first in a series of five songs – released weekly – culminating in an upcoming EP entitled vosotros presents: Rhoda.

1. Mooey Moobau – All Murmur Of Our Mothers’ Waters // Live Bloody Live  (link)
2. Headlight (link)
3. Mooey Moobau (link)
4. Restarvant (link)

All Murmur Of Our Mothers’ Waters // Live Bloody Live is available now.  The physical release is limited to 81 handmade, numbered copies.  Order now from the vosotros shop.

Or buy it digitally from:  Amazon :: iTunes :: Waxpoetics

“Trap Door” from All Murmur Of Our Mothers’ Waters // Live Bloody Live (vos008, 2010)

Stop.

These two albums are like nothing else you’ve heard.

They are overflowing with poetry and pathological stuttering.

They are laden with natural speech rhythms and melodies, intuitively blurted by some of L.A.’s avant-jazz heavyweights.

They are the sound of the 21st century finally breaking its leash. They were made by someone named Mooey Moobau, whose real name is Joseph Tepperman.

He has a day job doing experiments on speech.

He once published a serious research paper about automatic sarcasm detection.

He hears abstract sequences of phonetic sounds come to him like whispers from Old English spirits.

He sings his live shows to these sounds as he realtime cassette edits them, rocking the pause button.

He also plays trombone like Eric Dolphy played clarinet: verbally.

He’s done this verbose tromboning with lots of different people from L.A. – most often Killsonic.

And it is mostly Killsonic who back up Mooey Moobau’s jagged live shows.

And it was also mostly they who accompanied him on his first album.

And All Murmur Of Our Mothers’ Waters is the title of that album.

And that title refers to the place we are in before we are born, insofar as it is a place.

It came out in 2008, and is included here as Disc 1.

Live Bloody Live is its companion piece, Disc 2.

It is a live album among live albums, and it is not really a live album at all.

It was recorded all over Los Angeles over 2 years, at 12 venues on 16 dates, with 19 musicians.

It sounds like violas.

Like violas that bleed all over pianos.

Like bloodied pianos that, with their many keys, aren’t too different from sputtering computers.

Like computers that sputter and bubble until they start to sound like a gang of epileptic drummers.

Like epileptic drummers who exhaust themselves trying to breathe under layers and layers of applause.

It is as ambitious as it is disorienting.

It is a document of a truly shameless performer.

It is what you have been missing, whether you’ve seen Mooey Moobau live or not.

Says Mooey Moobau:

i made the new mooey moobau album by cutting up recordings of all of my live shows so far. or almost all of them. from the last 2 years.

it is called “Live Bloody Live” and my friends at Vosotros are putting it out an…d it sounds like a big messy birthday cake, with maraschino cherries and three kinds of frosting and rum and pieces of raw cacao baked into it. truly rewriting the songs from scratch. every possible instrument, every possible arrangement – all at once.

almost all 18 or so people who played on it will be there for this show. we are going to replicate the cutting-up i did with a computer at home, but live! in front of an audience! with iPods and CD players and even cassettes. imagine the massive roving mists of delay and orchestrated glitch possible…

my dreamy electronics friend Headlight will also play a set, and so will an excellent band i have only just recently heard for the first: they are called Restavrant. with a ‘v’, like in ancient rome.

Come celebrate the release of Mooey Moobau’s “Live Bloody Live” – a live mashup album recorded all over Los Angeles over 2 years, at 12 venues on 16 dates, with 19 musicians. Most of those musicians will be performing live with Mooey Moobau. At this show. On this night.

A historical moment at a historical monument.

Also performing: Restavrant & Headlight (with DJ sets by vosotros)

This Saturday – Feb 20th @ HM 157 (3110 N Broadway 90031)

$5. Doors at 8. Music at 9. Cash bar.

http://www.myspace.com/mooeymoobau
http://www.myspace.com/restaurantmusic
http://www.myspace.com/inheadlights

http://www.myspace.com/hm157

Free with Facebook RSVP

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=301252057607

L.A. RECORD’s Valentine’s mixtape is so bursting with love we had to make it a box set. Each volume is like another relationship, and each new love comes in different parts as R&B, pop, folk, rock, and experimental. Some of it’s funny and cheesy, but it’s all an emotional rollercoaster—a celebration of heartbreak, sex, and the love of your dreams.

VOLUME 1
Sounds Like A Movie – These Palms
They Marry – Mi & L’Au
Wetter – Julian Shah-Taylor
To The Moon – Fort King
Valentines Mix 1 – The Pity Party
Tonight (Back To My Place) – Learning Music
Innuendos – howardAmb
Light Lost – Seasons
Modern Lust – Veil Veil Vanish
If I Get You That Surgery – Random Patterns
The Cat Scratches – Forest Of Tongue
I Fell – Sandra Sarra
Cheer Up Blue – Generous Alzir

Download Volumes 1, 2, and 3 HERE.