vosotros: music for you-all

Thank you to everyone who made it out to LAND on Thursday!! To ring in the leap year, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of our residency in Little Tokyo and the release of our third album as a label - vosotros presents: the lazy susan.

The lazy susan was a year long collaborative effort, and features 32 musicians on 12 songs written by bassist Gabe Noel. The album introduces music by Noelsson Schmoelsson, Someone’s Piano, First Good Feeling, PB&J …and g, masunday, Saltar, My Moon Boots, The Carrot and Stick, Touhy, ump-off Pause Tape, How Long It Takes To Know, and Our Song.

Order the physical CD direct from vosotros!! Each album is handmade for you-all. Includes custom letterpressed packaging and a beautiful 28-page booklet with photos and lyrics. The album comes in 100% recycled, non-plastic packaging and is wrapped in biodegradable wood cellulose. Can you taste that piano?

On the digital front, we are excited to announce a partnership with one of our favorite Chicago labels, Thrill Jockey Records. They’ve built their own digital download store, offering high quality, DRM-free albums from a select group of independent labels. Visit FINA to see our catalog.

The Lazy Susan is also available from these fine digital retailers: Amazon | eMusic | iTunes

In other news, vosotros was recently featured on the Creative Commons blog.

Y en más otras noticias, LAZY SUSAN LISTENING PARTY at FOUND GALLERY in Silver Lake …. March 23rd … details at foundla.com.

And special thanks to Charles Altura, Aaron Arntz, Sam Barsh, Gene Coye, and PONG for playing on Thursday … kap kun krap…

[streaming at last.fm and iMeem]

And suddenly, it’s the end of January … and our 12th consecutive monthly residency at LAND in Little Tokyo. Come celebrate this Thursday! We have an amazing lineup of bands this month …

And be sure to visit lazy susan’s podcast - we’ve recently posted free downloads from Circus Minor, Readers, Tales of Banyan, and Restaurant.

We just posted two new free songs on lazy susan’s podcast - a track by Circus Minor (who played at LAND in December) and Tales of Banyan - a new project from Marcel Camargo, the lead singer of Saltar. Marcel will be performing next Thursday at our show in Little Tokyo alongside menage a moi, Readers, Restuarant, and at the speed of need.

Enjoy the rain - and the mountains while they last…

Visit the lazy susan podcast for a free download from Readers - part of the Community Pool Tapes project. We are very excited for them to perform at this month’s show at LAND in Little Tokyo… not to be missed. Stay tuned for details.

New podcast songs coming soon from Circus Minor, Restaurant, and more…

lazy susan volume 11 - free download available now:

website | podcast

(welcome to the ocho)

I almost went the way of Sonny Bono on Monday … having not skied in over 10 years, I figured that going down the steep side of the mountain would be a fine way to get reacquainted. I don’t remember much leading up to the wipe out - and miracuously I wasn’t hurt. But a ski patrol safety man came flying down the mountain towards me … and he was white in the face. Apparently in his 11 years on the job, he had never seen anything like it. I was just that good.

Currently in Colorado … and as long as I don’t get snowed in, I’ll be back just in time for vosotros #11, tomorrow night in Little Tokyo. What better way to close out this holiday season than music from Circus Minor, LeTron, and WE THE BEST. ¡Feliz Naviotros!

•TONITE!!! HOUR OF THE SHIPWRECK AT MIDNIGHT. (THANKS TO LYLA FOR THE COLORFUL FLYER!)

•Susan is ssssoooo lazy! But that won’t stop us from releasing the highly anticipated (i think) Lazy Susan Compilation! Most recently featuring Local MC Mestizo, The Lazy Susan is sure to be an eargasm!!!! stay woke!
• Finally, Vosotros would like to recognize composer/visionary Karlheinz Stockhausen, who passed last week…A pioneer of classical music & especially electronic media, his influence stretches far and wide- from Boulez to Aphex Twin…and Vosotros. He shall be missed.

see the unseen.

g

•I’m currently in Indianapolis blogging from the famed Amerisuites hotel…a solid hit last night with guitar wizard Fareed Haque (see six thirty) at the Jazz Kitchen, and today we hit the road again to Yellow Springs, Ohio to rock Peaches Grill…Fareed is an incredible musician and great guy, and it’s always nice to feel that midwest love even if only for a weekend.————————–> www.fareed.com
•But I won’t be in LA for very long either. Thursday I set out again with reedist Adrián Terrazas-González (The Mars Volta) and drummer Gene Coye (My Moon Boots, Masunday) for a series of shows around Mexico. Adrián’s music is seemingly melange of electric improvised music and mexican folk songs.
check him out.——————–>www.myspace.com/adrianterrazasgonzalez
•Touhy has gone the way of Saltar, and somehow been misplaced on the northside of Chicago. When I get back to Chi on Sunday, Ill check the bathroom at Irvings. stay tuned…

g