acoustaclaw records

new quidnunk — sanemagogna

kellen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:58:40 +0000

if there is such a thing as a form for quidnunk, this may well be a return to it. hearkening back to the old “best of [time period]” cd-r’s, sanemagogna’s eleven songs/fragments were recorded simply and given just enough space (hopefully) to convey an idea. the intent was to capture the songs as close to their conception as possible, while the feelings behind them were still fresh and the ideas not quite fully formed. it’s a process that allows little regard for fidelity or perfection (check the drums for example, no idea how to play those), but no one was looking for those things in a quidnunk record anyway.

download it here.

vote for the winner of the “i would die 4 u” throwdown

kellen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:54:16 +0000

the second cover throwdown is now posted.

check it out and vote for your favorites. voting closes feb12.

quidnunk’s greatest hit

kellen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:35:36 +0000

quidnunk – blue screwdriver

cover throwdown 2 — who’s in?

kellen — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:20:42 +0000

so the voting has closed on the first cover throwdown and curtis williams’ “witchcraft” seems to have left the judges spellbound, capturing 41% of the vote. in addition to the fame/honor that comes with the victory, curtis also got to choose the slate of nominees for the next throwdown. his picks are…

1. Prince – I Would Die 4 U (know it was in the Last mix, but I really love it, and will probably end up recording it anyways even if we dont pick it)

2. The Clash – Rock The Casbah (it was hard picking just one Clash tune, but I think this one could really go in all kinds of crazy directions)

3. David Bowie – Suffragette City (even harder to pick just one tune, probably my favorite artist of all time. I figured this would really be fun to lay down)

so vote for the song you’d most like to cover / hear covered. and if you plan to participate, leave a note below saying you are down.

once it appears there is a majority opinion, we’ll get a note out to the participants with the decision and a deadline.

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vote for the winner of the first cover throwdown

kellen — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:06:24 +0000

in late september, alex (the idles) challenged all of his music making friends to a cover song throwdown. a slate of three songs was suggested, votes were cast and frank sinatra’s “witchcraft” was selected as the subject of the inaugural throwdown. halloween was set as the deadline for submissions and in the end, seven (including the challenger) arose to the challenge. you’ll find their covers below, listed in order of receipt.

give them a listen, then help us crown a winner by voting for your favorite.

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the idles’ red line ep arrives

kellen — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:40:59 +0000

released exclusively on acoustaclaw records this week, the red line ep is the follow up to the idles’ 2006 debut plants, insects and women — an album acclaimed director and music aficionado brendan lawler lists among his favorite of all time. from the cover of minimalist composer michael nyman’s “memorial” that opens the album to the refrain of “…take a step on the red line and find a seat with your friends” that closes it, we can pretty much guarantee you’ll find the journey to be among the most pleasant you’ve ever associated with the red line.

download the red line ep for free right here.

quidnunk releases dinner bell ep

kellen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:34:07 +0000

the 4 tracks of dinner bell were culled from a collection of 15 or so nearly finished recordings that were originally intended to make up quidnunk’s third album. the album never made it past sequencing though; it was postponed indefinitely, as was quidnunk who elected to put away his guitar for as long as it took to forget how to play it, hoping to erase the tendencies that had become ingrained from an entire year spent playing nothing but silver jews songs.

a couple of those shelved songs appeared in new forms that year on the mystery squid album flight of can beer, but the rest have remained tucked away on a forgotten hard drive until now. post a 2-plus year hiatus, quidunk has begun writing new material for what will be his third full length album. but, not wanting to abandon those unreleased recordings completely, he chose a few of his favorites to release as a digital-only ep through acoustaclaw records. minus some dusting off, you’ll find the songs more or less how quidnunk left them back in 2007.

download dinner bell for free right here.

the idles’ plants, insects and women now available on acoustaclaw records

kellen — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:29:56 +0000

plants, insects and women is the debut album from the idles, the recording name of washington dc songwriter alex solecki, whose previous projects include mystery squid and dialectric. originally self-released in 2006, the album is now being made available digitally for the first time through acoustaclaw records.

download the full album for free right here.

acoustaclaw records offers free download of mystery squid’s flight of can beer

kellen — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:17:42 +0000

flight of can beer began with the idea of the idles and quidnunk recording new versions of their favorite songs from the other’s solo project under the mystery squid moniker. that concept was expanded once recording began though, and the final product includes both new versions of previously released songs by the idles and quidnunk and previously unreleased demos that had been floating around, as well as a few brand new songs. the track list alternates between the two songwriters, beginning with a quidnunk song and ending with one from the idles.

download the full album for free and hear some of the original versions of the songs right here.

acoustaclaw records reissues quidnunk’s galumphing guitars

kellen — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:21:15 +0000

as with another evening primrose, this digital re-release is the first time galumphing guitars has been made widely available, with just over two dozen physical albums originally released in late 2006.

the majority of galumphing guitars was written during the recording of another evening primrose and recorded just after that album was finished, though a few of the songs on the album were holdovers from several unreleased collections a few years prior (tracks 3, 4, 5 and 11) that were too good to leave that way. “peebles” and “i’m about to eat some rice” are thus far the only released tracks from the very first quidunk project; dozens of recordings of instrumental music accompanied by a frequently incoherent synthetic narrator via textaloud. and while the quidnunk version of “untitled” is a new one, the song had also been around for several years… appearing previously on the mystery squid ep anomally and then again on the full length cursed fig tree.

so galumphing guitars is something of a goulash, composed of various synthetic and analog elements from various points in time stewed together into a single, satisfying whole.

download the full album for free right here.