the Notes and Scratches

vj on still life in brown

Sat, 17 May 2008 10:50:33 -0600

vj said:

The beer never moved but your mustache twitched provocatively.

Jeanine Mailloux on In the Meantime

Fri, 12 Jan 2007 20:09:07 -0600

Jeanine Mailloux said:

When will you come to AZ? Specifically, Tucson? Phoenix would work. Anika we love you and you have more family and friends than you know in AZ!

VJ on City of Egg Timers

Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:22:22 -0600

VJ said:

Still my favorite song…

Leff Turner on bringmayflowers — My Finest Words

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:07:20 -0600

Leff Turner said:

2 things:

I hope that pie was vegan!
I had a dream last night that we won some award. We were all sitting in the audience of this award show and I was next to Larry David…I don’t think he appreciated our music for some reason. Next thing I know, we decided to leave the show and go get something to drink instead…priorities always firmly in place.

Eli on this is so sweet

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:33:06 -0600

Eli said:

no pants!!

Kirk on this is so sweet

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:38:04 -0600

Kirk said:

wait. nuh? wait. NUH? WAIT? NUH???????

Courtney K on little snip

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:32:44 -0600

Courtney K said:

I’m lovin’ this little clip; it sounds great!

Blake G on Thank You and Happy Holidays!

Wed, 03 May 2006 10:11:09 -0600

Blake G said:

I Like it AAALot
WakenBlake
www.UNDERSOUND.com
dont forget to sign your band up on the site, just follow the directions after you sign up as a member of the USound, and load a pic, a bio and a mp3 and all of 757 will have acess to you before you come around the mountain. We have been getting bands from all over the U.S.

dustin monk on 2005 Top Ten

Mon, 01 May 2006 21:09:42 -0600

dustin monk said:

woo-hoo! you mentioned raymond carver in describing song. you are truly my hero.

a lynn on Beginnings and Endings

Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:38:41 -0600

a lynn said:

we heart you josh!
we can’t wait to play with you guys and "some by sea" in march. seriously, we’re all tingly and stuff.
i’ll see you guys on saturday!

Vdog on We’re an American Band

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:38 -0600

Vdog said:

"Drum So-lo!!!!!!"

Baron on Uh-Oh is out! Now! In Color!

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 21:01:17 -0600

Baron said:

Great work on the cover by Mike! That is quite possibly one of the most gorgeous and sweet covers I have seen in a long time.

Baron on Songs from Uh-Oh

Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:57:45 -0600

Baron said:

No worries, Artist pages always look so much better with a good image on it =)

And I’m thrilled that you think it looks good ^_^

kerdog on We’re an American Band

Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:48:24 -0600

kerdog said:

Who is that hot drummer? He rips!!!!

josh on Record Release Show

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:19:54 -0600

josh said:

Hey Chris,
yeah, we’re real excited about the show too. Thanks for the invite, the whole evening should be a blast. And don’t you worry about VJ, you never know where that guy is gonna turn up!

josh on Highlife

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:20:26 -0600

josh said:

thanks Mark, I’d actually forgotten that my first introduction to highlife was through you!

I love the idea of music as a renewable resource and Dr. Collins’ recordings of Local Dimension, found here, are great. I particularly dug Sogtar [2.6mb] [mp3], the nylon stringed guitars and how the harmonica takes the intricate lead.

I hope you are also well my friend.

chris on Record Release Show

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 05:33:53 -0600

chris said:

whats up amigo, chris from the attic recordings. i’m diggin the sight man. sorry to hear about the departure of vj, thats a hell of a loss. as always, i’m looking forward to playin with you guys on saturday. until then.

Mark on Highlife

Sat, 10 Dec 2005 21:43:40 -0600

Mark said:

Hi Josh,

Check out Dr. John Collins—he’s a great scholar and conduit into all West African popular music (which is surely one of the finest examples of a true popular music, as opposed to commercial music), including highlife and all of its antecedents and musicological cousins. I studied with him in Accra; he’s an amazing person.
http://www.scientific-af….org/scholars/jcollins/
http://afropop.org/community/contributors.php?ID=5

Dr. Collins and Dr. Nketia are a huge presence in Ghanaian ethnomusicology. Collins has ties to one of the SUNY schools, I think, and both Collins and Nketia should have literature somehow related to UCLA, which still profits from the broad vision of Charles Seeger. I know that Dr. Collins used to have at least a dozen manuscripts that he refused to publish unless he could find a publisher from Ghana—which might seem strangely obstinate unless viewed in the light of his theory about music and culture being renewable resources for developing nations that are in danger of being warped by the wide gravitational field of post-colonial history.

The guitar style you’re hearing might be something called the palmwine style:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/mus…arartists_vintage.shtml

Hope you’re well,

Mark

M. on Uh-Oh is out! Now! In Color!

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 09:27:04 -0600

M. said:

Great work! I love the tracks you provided and the album cover is amazing. Do you ever plan on coming down to the Raleigh/Chapel Hill area? Hope so. I’m posting something on my blog about the Notes and Scratches with links to your track samples. I’m listening to the Clockmakers Daughter as I write and will be heading over to the store to purchase Uh-Oh. Thanks.

josh on Songs from Uh-Oh

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 19:34:11 -0600

josh said:

Thanks y’all, and thanks Baron for throwing the pic on last.fm. (Baron, last-standing is really nicely designed!).

Our dear old friend Mike Piontek drew all the art for the record and the band and Tense Forms silkscreened it onto these nice cardboard sleeves. Here’s a scan of the cover. The discs have the above owl on them and should be back from the plant this week. Soon!

thanks everyone!

Simone on Songs from Uh-Oh

Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:29:42 -0600

Simone said:

That sounds really great.

Baron on Songs from Uh-Oh

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:31:57 -0600

Baron said:

Nice site. I heard about you guys through 3hive, and I quite like your music. Love the album cover too, by the way.

Good luck with everything :)

[Also, I was going to upload a last.fm image for you guys - is it alright to use the album cover, or the press shot from the post before?

Frank on Songs from Uh-Oh

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 06:09:54 -0600

Frank said:

That owl owns!