SUN CITY GIRLS INFO
Can you believe it?! Majora's very first CD release EVER is none
other than The Sun City Girls' "Valentines From Matahari" (which is
available right now). This is an honor, indeed! In addition,
"Bright Surroundings, Dark Beginnings" will be available on CD
soon, with vinyl reissues of both releases, to boot!
Keep your ears open for "Box of Chameleons", the massive triple CD
set from the Girls, which will ship in two weeks.
"Juggernaut", the video with soundtrack by Sun City Girls, is now
available on VHS (for your listening AND viewing pleasure). Watch
it, live it.
The Japan Overseas CD "Land of the Rising" is fully available, as
is Charles Gocher's first solo project "Pint Sized Spartacus".
GRAVELVOICE WEB PAGE
I've logged many, many hours renovating the Gravelvoice Web Page,
which features a new and improved Sun City Girls page which now
includes all releases in LP, CD, and cassette. I'm still filling
in the holes on the more obscure releases and compilation tracks,
but everything is in pretty good shape right now and I'm rather
pleased with it. I plan to update it often, both informationally
and sound-wise.
STUDIO WISE
Edits on another Girls soundtrack CD, called Dulce, has begun.
I recently began recording Rick Bishop's solo CD for Revenant,
which features mostly solo guitar pieces to make you laugh, cry,
and kiss your guitar teacher goodbye.
Alan Bishop (alias Alvarius B) was in last week to edit his second
solo effort - a double gatefold vinyl release of vocal and guitar
pieces. There is talk about a month-and-a-half long studio lockout
in December to record new Sun City Girls material, so when the
chills of winter are coursing through your bones just know that
Mother Nature had nothing to do with it: it's merely the
vibrational holocaust oozing forth from the mythical Gravelvoice
lair of geniosity.
But let's move on, shall we?
The Climax Golden Twins are in the middle of a studio lock-out to
finish their next project, which we like to call "Locations", which
features... uh... "location recordings" mixed and segued into an
alternate reality which might not quite resemble home. The Twins
have also completed a soundtrack for another Don Fels instalation
which is reflective of Don's stay in Italy. The background piece
consists of location recordings made by Don in Italy and Sicily,
the tapes of which were poured over ever so gently, extracting the
finest, most succulent of moments, which were then passionately
caressed until molded into a fine Italian pasta (ahem).
Another volume of Victrola favorites has been completed, as well.
This one is titled "Victrola Favorites Volume 4 - Alvarius B's
Picks" which features 78s from Burma.
Climax Golden Twins and Swell drummer John Vallier was in to begin
laying tracks for a solo project of his own. John is such a great
drummer you could eat him with a spoon.
The Bali Girls' demo is completely finished and is currently being
shopped to interested parties. The Balis will be playing North By
Northwest again this year, and are expecting even larger crowds
than last year.
As always, if you don't want to be on my list, the removal
procedure is so simple:
Just return this mail to me.
That's it.
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