Spring
Hi. It’s nice outside.
We’re playing a show at the end of May at Silent Barn in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Details coming soon!
In the meantime, come hang out with us on Twitter and listen to this beat:
Updates
Happy 2013, everybody. Have you shifted into a new plane of consciousness? No? Maybe? Just cause you don’t feel it doesn’t mean it’s not there?
- We’re rehearsing with a five-piece band, and hoping to play some shows in a couple months. It could be really great, so we want to do it right.
- The EP was mastered by Joe Lambert. He’s good. It sounds really good. I worked on it almost all year, so for it to be finished is that feeling of, “YES!! WE DID IT! Now what?”
- I’m writing the first album in between all this. How do you pick 12 songs? What you leave off shapes the thing as much as what you choose. My favorite albums feel like self-contained worlds, but we all contain a lot of worlds inside us. Shutting the other ones off is tough to do, but necessary to some extent. I want to express something that comes from the insanely beautiful area around Western Pennsylvania, where I grew up; trying to reconcile that aesthetic with my space/future obsession is a challenge. I have 120 Corbu songs on my hard drive to choose from.
- We got big on Instagram - 1200 followers in a couple months. Will we have 10,000 followers by next year? Weird. Click on the “Cell phone pictures” tab on the right to have a look, or just go here: @corbu_____ on Instagram
- I’m making little mini-videos for some of the songs. Here’s Believe the Lie:
-Jonathan
EP Update
Mixed side 2 of the We Are Sound EP this weekend with Jake Aron at Dr Wu in Williamsburg. Turns out Jake is Jamie Lidell’s bass player, aside from all of his other heroics I was aware of. Hard to make it sound bad with this guy at the board.
I’m tempted to put a clip up from Believe the Lie, but might as well wait til you can hear the whole thing, right? Now I have to start thinking about the video. Something about telling a story only using lights.
Rings
About a year ago I collaborated with Frank & Tony on a dance track / wrote and sang vocals over it. I wanted to play it live in a Corbu set, so I started making a Corbu version of it. It’s on the single, out now on vinyl and soon digitally.
Post reblogged from neon hallway with 1 note
Fields & Flowers
Free download. I wrote this in the cold, thinking of this time of year.
A new demo made on my phone, touched up on the computer.
Experiments with occult geometry.
I’m playing this tomorrow, along with a few other Beatles songs, for an event benefitting 2E (twice-exceptional) kids. Twice-exceptional means a person tests exceptionally high in intelligence, and also has something like ADD or autism that would traditionally be considered a “learning disability.” These kids sometimes get kicked aside and have their confidence shattered in school, because a “sit down, shut up and watch 6 hours of lectures a day” approach doesn’t work for them.
The narrative of historical figures like Einstein, who was kicked out of school because he couldn’t pay attention, suggests that more than a few of our civilization’s biggest contributors were 2E.
Anyway, I never really knew the lyrics to the song before now. Wow.
Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream
It is not dying
It is not dying
Lay down all thought, surrender to the void
It is shining
It is shining
That you may see the meaning of within
It is being
It is being
That love is all and love is everyone
It is knowing
It is knowing
That ignorance and hate may mourn the dead
It is believing
It is believing
But listen to the color of your dreams
It is not leaving
It is not leaving
So play the game “Existence” to the end
Of the beginning
Of the beginning
Of the beginning…
“Surrender to the void - it is shining”??
Sometimes the late 60s feel like the distant future.
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