Brendan Murray- Music Blog

Two shows this weekend with the mighty Brown Wing Overdrive from Brooklyn, doing a mini-tour of the Northeast in advance of their new cd out on Tzadik in September.

Albany Sonic Arts Collective Presents:
Brown Wing Overdrive and Brendan Murray
Saturday, July 12, 2008

8:00pm
Upstate Artists Guild
247 Lark St.
Albany, NY

If ever there were a flyer that illustrated “the differences between Boston and New York”, that might be it.

Kidding, kidding.

Sunday July, 13 2008 8pm
Brown Wing Overdrive(NYC),
Neckhold(Australia)
Ouest (Howie Stelzer, Jay Sullivan, Brendan Murray)
Freida Abtan (Montreal)

791 Tremont Street (South End) off of Mass Ave. Piano Factory, Boston, Massachusetts 02118
Cost : $8

Hope to see you!

At last, my Chimeras Synthesis BC16 has arrived!  So far it’s totally fun and LOUD!

Sunday, June 8th Middle East Upstairs 472 Mass. Ave Cambridge, MA 18+ $9

Major Stars
Bear in Heaven
Magic People
Paper Summer

Second outing this year for Paper Summer, the minimal/psych/ jam trio I am in with my friends Chokdee and Sam.  I play guitar and drums.  Should be a fun night.  MP3s soon.

First off, I am feeling better and regret having to cancel the show at Dartmouth. I had to stay healthy. I hope to visit Dartmouth in the fall. Thanks to Newton and Howie for being so cool about everything. Chest cold= bad.

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything about other music and other things.

In no order:

Why it took me so long to buy Kesto by Pan Sonic I will never know. It’s pretty incomparable. I would like to check out the new DVD KUVAPUTKI, but I don’t have a giant video projector and sound system to match. Anyone who would like to go in on renting a fancy A/V room to watch it should get in touch.

I am STOKED that Emil Amos from Grails is the new OM drummer. Can’t wait to see/hear the new version of the group.

Root Strata’s blog is mighty fine: http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/. Included in there somewhere is a newly updated (to me) Alan Licht Minimalism List that had me running for the blogs last night. I did okay. Any mention of the incredible Roberto Cacciapaglia LP Sei Nota in Logica is news. I need a real copy of that. That’s the kind of record you dream about.

COMMERCE CORNER:

My offer stands: if anyone (including the guy who released it, who vanished a long time ago) has an actual copy of my Animation CDR from 2002 that they will be willing to part with, please let me know. I’ll pay you money and send you new music. It’s the only thing I don’t have in my archives, and it makes me feel weird.

Conversely, I am desperate for mp3s or cdrs or even an LP of Michael Snow’s Musics for Piano, Whistling, Microphone and Tape Recorder. I’d be interested in trading for the cds as well, but I know that is expensive. Let’s talk.

Hey, what other records are like Jean-Claude Vainner’s L’Enfant Assassin des Mouches? I bet the answer is no. Something has to be close, though.

I also have a feeling I NEED the Baudouin Oosterlynck box set.

I won’t be playing in Dartmouth tonight due to illness. The show will proceed. Howie will play solo and it will be great.

Commonwealth is available directly from 23Five and is also available from Forced Exposure and Mimaroglu Music Sales. Creaig Dunton has written a review for Brainwashed, which includes sound samples.

I’m playing solo at Dartmouth College on May 4th (this Sunday), with some friends from Austraila and some Dartmouth students. Here’s the details:

Brendan Murray
Will Guthrie/Newton Armstrong/Howard Stelzer trio
and other great music!

6pm, Sunday May 4, Faulkner Recital Hall, Hopkins Center, Hanover NH. Reception to follow, I think…

I’m honored to be a guest on Rare Frequency this week Thursday at 7pm EST, which is Susanna Bolle’s excellent radio show on WZBC.  Susanna also interviewed me for the Boston Phoenix last week.

Rare Frequency can be heard locally here in Boston at 90.3FM and all over the internet here.  I’ll do a live set, talk about the new record, play some Paper Summer recordings that are in progress and maybe even play some favorite tracks. Susanna let me do that last time, and I know she regrets it.

Commonwealth is on it’s way.  23Five has posted a discussion Randy and I had about the record on their site.  If you managed to pick up a copy at last week’s Wolf Eyes show (and thanks if you did), let me know what you think!

Thursday April 3rd Middle East Club (upstairs) 472 Mass. Ave Cambridge, MA 18+ $9

Wolf Eyes
Howard Stelzer
Quits
Brendan Murray

I’ll be playing the first set at 9:15pm SHARP. Come early.

Tuesday 4/15 Middle East Upstairs 472 Mass. Ave Cambridge, MA 18+ $8

Mystery Palace (fr. MN),
Keith Fullerton Whitman
Hands & Knees
Paper Summer

I play drums and guitar in the rock band Paper Summer. This is our first show in nearly two years.

Wed April 16 Twisted Village 12B Eliot St. Cambridge MA 8ish?
Jed Speare/Asher/Brendan Murray

Our first outing as a trio. We will be we working with translations of the earliest recorded material known to exist, recently discovered from 1860. Read about the material here.

At all of these shows, I will have copies of Commonwealth, my new solo record, which will also be available from distributors very soon.

The phrase “American maverick” can get thrown around a lot, but I think it actually fits William Basinski. He’s been doing what he does longer than most people who do it and played all kinds of music everywhere and has reached that point that all artists hope to reach but never admit to: his music has become an inevitable comparison.  How many times have heard someone say “It’s kinda like William Basinski” in relation to someone else’s work? Exactly.

I’m not saying anything new here, of course.

As an Emusic nerd, I was excited to discover that Billy’s entire catalog is available there now.  Consider yourself lucky when your downloads roll over and dive in.

seriously, LOOK at this list.

http://wmbr.org/www/cr_red