You may have noticed that nifty download store picture/link in the upper right, and some of you might have already even clicked on it. If you haven’t already go ahead and check it out, and possibly buy some albums. They’re all super high quality, and darn good if I do say so myself. There’s a lot of content, I’m in the process of uploading the 10th album right now.
Also, some time soon I am going to be transferring all the old Shulaka tapes from 1995 – 1999 and posting them as well.
On this beautiful Christmas Eve I am writing you to announce the release of a project that I am incredibly proud of, The Children of Mu – Sessions 2011.
The Children of Mu is a Fusion Improv project I put together with some of the best and most creative musicians in the area. Think electric period Miles Davis mixed with Faust and Sun Ra. I had A LOT of fun playing drums on this, and finally for those of you who know me most for my drumming have full 3 hours worth of it here. You can click the image on the left to download the MP3 version for free or donate if you like, or you can get the flac or just about any other file version in my brand new DOWNLOAD STORE and see the complete session notes and credits.
This is the first recording released under my real name. I’m not sure why I decided to use this one, but maybe it was because I feel like this particular EP basically came straight from a particular stressful week at work which I translated directly and frantic and chaotic music, hints it’s title “Work”
The instrumentation is only drums and synth, with recorder on one track. The synth used was a Yamaha TX81z. Every track was started with the drums and then I went back and improvised all the other tracks afterwards. Basically solo improvisation.
The patches I created on the synth were trying to emulate free jazz sax, horn electric piano and bass tones. Obviously since the TX81z is a 4 operator FM synth, realism was NOT my goal, but rather to create somewhat strange and warped versions of these instruments.
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Be sure to go check out my new album “Coruja” available for purchase on Amazon, iTunes, eMusic etc… I worked really hard on this one, and it is definitely a percussion lover’s album. Later an actual CD will be available as well. Since Amazon doesn’t allow back covers, you can download it here or at least look at it to see the notes.
A partial list of equipment used: Custom made 6 piece drum kit with concert toms, surdo, caixa, agogo, repinique, tamborim, cuica, Paiste cymbals, tan tan, pandeiro, 6″ Chinese gong, wood block, Kawai K1 II synthesizer, Casio CZ-3000 synthesizer, Yamaha TX81Z Synthesizer, Korg MS-2000 Synthesizer, acoustic guitar, floppy drive, Pro Tools Free for OS9, Cubase SX, Cubase SE, Audacity, Ecasound, Sure SM57, Behringer C-2, OHS OM450, Tascam M-164, and a buch of other stuff I’m forgetting about.
Or download it for free here!
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This is definitely the most avantgarde and one of the most twisted abstract recordings I have ever taken part in.
This was one of my bands when I was living in South Florida/Miami from 1996 to 2000 and was the last recording I made before I left.
Anti-Pope actually started out as just being called “Pope” and we were a two piece band consisting of myself on drums and Dan Hosker (Holy Terrors, Harry Pussy) on guitar. We played several very intense improvised shows in the somewhat hostile Miami music scene of the late 90s accumulating Henry Rajan on bass and Gerard Klauder on electronics and basically causing chaos wherever we went.
The music scene in the late 90s of Miami was an interesting and somewhat hostile, scary place. There were a lot of unpredictable people going anywhere from somewhat, to very insane at any given moment. I’m not talking about every now and then having a little too much to drink, I’m talking about true psychopathic and outright dangerous behavior. You never knew what was going to happen. Tables could fly, There was riotous drunken behavior that often erupted in to violent frenzies, and unfortunately Gerard was often at the center of these frenzies, or at least partially responsible for them getting started. However, I cannot profess innocence at all in this period either.
We recorded this album at Gerard’s house in January of 2000. Dan and Henry and I improvised all day and Gerard recorded it. Then he cut it to a million pieces and put together a pretty incredible album from it a few months later.
This is still one of the craziest sounding albums I’ve ever been on and really think it holds up rather well.
Gerard ended up taking his own life a few years ago, and despite he crazy episodes, really deep down was a good hearted person. Rest in peace old crazy friend.
Download the zip here, or stream below.
Recorded in January of 2000 by Gerard Klauder in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Drums, keyboards, alto saxophone, salad bowl – Justin Wierbonski
Guitars, keyboards, rattling wrenches, sticks, beer cans and keys – Dan Hosker
Upright and 5 string bass, banging and clarinet – Henry Rajan
Mixing, cuts and production by Gerard Klauder.
This is an album recorded by me and saxophonist, Jeremy Powell in 2007. It was recorded on Easter Sunday and the first time Jeremy and I had ever played together. I met him at a local jam session and thought he playing was incredible and asked him if he wanted to come over and record some improvised music. This is what happened.
This is free and intense music of only acoustic drums and soprano saxophone. I really think we captured some great performances here and if you are a fan of the free music genre, you should like this album.
It was recorded with two Sennheiser MD421s going straight to standard cassette tape. Everything was recorded live and the recording is practically unedited.
Justin Robert Wierbonski – Drums
Jeremy Powell – Saxophone
Download the full album MP3 format in a zip
Download full album art by Jeremy Powell
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This is the first batch of extremely limited release of floppy singles I am releasing. There are three different singles all with original hand made cardboard sleeves. Each single has a self-contained song, which means you do not need any type of player to play the song, they will play right off of the floppy disc on any windows based computer (Linux works with Wine installed) with a floppy drive. Each song is in .ogg format and each floppy has a self-contained ogg player. On each disc you’ll find a click-able script that opens the player, plays the song and then closes when it’s done. It installs nothing on your computer.
On each floppy is a link to download all three floppy single songs in high quality format plus one bonus song which make up the entire 4 song EP. None of the three floppy single songs are available anywhere else to download or purchase.
I have not decided how many I will actually make, but each one will be labeled “first copy, second copy, etc…” but it will be very limited.
Single one is a drumless melodic staticy noise/ambient piece with a chill vibe
Single two is moody chilled out and creepy with drums and synth
Single three is Latin rhythms and percussion mixed with metallic sequences
One single is $8 within the USA which includes free shipping, if you would like all 3, it is $20.
International buyers is $16 for one and $40 for all 3.
If you are ordering a single floppy, be sure to specify which single you want: 1, 2 or 3 in the “note to seller” field in paypal. Unless you are one of the first 3 buyers, your single will not look like the ones above, but will be similar in design.
US buyers all three singles $20
Any of you that know me personally, know that a long time ago I used to record really strange music under the name Shulaka. Well in late 2007 I returned to form and recorded an album’s worth of classic Christmas songs Shulaka style.
I sent it in CD format only to family and close friends but now I’m putting it on the interweb for you to get your Christmas freak on!
It features nearly all the timeless Christmas hits you remember like, “Frosty The Snowman” “little Drummer Boy” “Jingle Bells” and more!
The concept behind 1986 was to make an oldschool space ambient album using pure synthesizer. 1986 was created using only a Casio CZ-3000 and recorded totally live with no overdubs directly to hard disk using the Ecasound command-line recording software for Linux. No added fx were used, all was done within the CZ. The success of this album was also what inspired me to create the Mothman Z3000 software synth which emulates the CZ-3000. Dowload it here!
This was the first truly “Ambient” album I made. Much of it was recorded while I was living in the small town Englewood, FL. I spent a lot of time riding my bike on a small beach island called Manasota Key, where the album got its name. The music is all instrumental, no drums, very melancholy and at times almost psychedelic. Instruments used were mostly guitar, bass and synths.
Manasota has been featured on many Ambient sites as top 10 of 2007 as well as made CD Baby’s Editor’s Picks for several months in a row. It is commercially available on iTunes, CD Baby, Tradebit, and retail stores around the world.
If you enjoy this page and wish to help support my music or anything else I do on this page, feel free to donate! Any amount helps!
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