DTTR goes Etsy

Caleb started an Etsy for our CDR's and soon to be released... Tapes!!

Check us out!

Asian Mae, Hobgoblin & Thunderbow At Mayo street arts this Saturday!!

Thunderbow is Adinah Barrnett of Batshelter playing her own creation... The Thunderbow

Asian Mae is me. 1/2 of Big Blood with alot of guitars singing and some drums.

Hobgoblin has fellas from Clown School Dropouts, Harpswell Sound and bunch of other bands.

They are rumored to have smoke and bubble machines...

videos.... an experiment

this is a darkly lit video of "Hole in One" From the Sahara Club/Space Gallery Cdr release. We were playing a show in Northampton at Danimal's King St. Manor...and our friend Danimal made this video. Thanks dude!

Listening to Records Part II

Soooo here's a new 7" of our old band Cerberus Shoal from waaaaaay back in 2003-2004 era when we were doing a theatrical performance of An Ongoing Ding...a response/continuation of the first "Ding". They were both poems written by a sharp cookie named Karl Greenwald. 

We sent the song to Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls and Alvarius B. He liked it and agreed to put out a collaborative record with us(Cerberus Shoal). It's called The Vim and Vigour of Alvarius B and Cerberus Shoal.

This record is part of a series of 7"'s put out by Eternal Otter Records run by Panda Bandits Will & Alicia. They put on a show at Space Gallery to celebrate the release of these records.  All of the 7" in the series are really good. Get em' all. The Blaque Boose one is awesome!!

Caleb and I made this wierd helmet with C-shoal photos on the inside. Folks who came to the show at Space were supposed to listen to the 7" while wearing the helmet. some photos are below.

About Ding & An Ongoing Ding...Cerberus Shoal set the poem to music and... voila! Out came the first Ding. Listen here

I guess?. it's last FM and i still can't figure out bloggin' except to post links gracefully. 

Speaking of...anyone reading this that knows how to embed youtube in our blog HELP! PLease!

This record is part of a series of 7"'s put out by Eternal Otter Records run by Panda Bandits Will & Alicia.

Listening to Records...

and thinking... which leads to this...

This Wednesday....Big Blood + Br. Oak = Dark UrrrU

January 27th, 2010

S. Portland, ME

158 Pickett Street Bakery

Dark-UrrrU

(Big Blood meets S. Br. Oak meets Crass)

Uke Of Spaces Corners

(Belfastian Upliftedness)

Deep Egypt

8pm $5 sugg.

Bro Oak is here

You can get Psychic Sun Shine from dontrustheruin records and from Tomentosa records

Time Lag is also distributing our friend Br. OAK

Caleb is currently mixing  Brom "Garm" Garmin's LP at our house. I am listening to it.
This will be our first vinyl release.
Dontrustheruin released a  "Garm" CD titled  Zeros back in the Early days of Big Blood

so it only seems fitting that we release our first LP with him.

Vic Chesnutt and me

Vic Chesnutt died on Christmas. Among many odd and inspiring songs, he wrote a great song off of his first album "Little" about Isadora Duncan.

 I saw him  in 2001 in Austin at SXSW.

Cerberus Shoal was booked to play the TRL label showcase for 45 minutes after a disturbing Oxbow performance. We had just finished our set. We were feeling raw and weird. (South by Southwest is comparable to a meat market for musicians.) 

I saw that Vic was playing right then at the Billiard Room a few blocks away. I cut out of the Cafe and ran like hell.  That night was chaos. People everywhere looking like Steven Tyler and Lita Ford.  Ike Turner was playing a comeback show next door. Lee Scratch Perry was on stage down the street. Wesley Willis was performing in some boardroom # 404. When I finally got to the venue, I convinced the bouncer that I was supposed to be there. He let me in.

  Climbing the stairs I was blown away by the scene in front of me. The bar couldn't be any more  different from where we had just played. Everything was gleaming gold and green. The bar was an enormous island in the middle of a vast sea of heads. About a dozen active pool tables were scattered throughout the venue. Vic wasn't on stage yet. I proudly celebrated my luck with a rare beer and pushed my way to the front of the stage.  Tina Chesnutt, Vic's wife, brought him onstage.  I could have touched him--not that I would ever touch a person while performing!

  A blonde cocktail waitress brought him a beer --per his request and got pissed when he didn't pay her. He hadn't a dime on him and neither did Tina. The Waitress left the stage yelling something about her manager! 

 It was a funny opening to what blurred into a dreamy show. Just Vic and his guitar for the first few songs, then he was joined by two other musicians who harmonized beautifully. His voice was like a powerful buzz saw cutting through the din of the bar. So much character and foul mouthed commentary emanating from such a seemingly fragile frame. My memory of the performance itself is watery and gleaming. It was like being galvanized. The complete environment surrounding me with color and sound. At it's center was this giant personality who played for months on repeat in my room, now singing songs right in front of me. I had fallen hard for "Little" and a handful of songs off "About to Choke" used as a soundtrack for many of dancer/writer/choreographer Buffy Miller's performances. 

  It was a life changing experience and a rare treat to escape from my bandmates and have such a magical experience.  It was in the cards for me that night to see Vic play and I will hold that memory for as long as I can.

"may your days be merry and bright" -Irving Berlin

My friend Tom explained that Irving Berlin wrote the song White Christmas while staying in Arizona during the holidays. We were sitting around our little tree singing christmas tunes and the words to that song in particular feel real. I love the idea of this man sitting in sweltering heat wishing for snow as I sit in arctic Maine also wishing for snow.

fall into winter

new images for a new season...

DTTR New release! Brother Oak 10/10/09

The final days of swimming in ice cold Maine water, (while it's actually sweltering outside) are over and we have been very verrry verrry busy! Amidst work, school, bills, pumpkins, recording, birthdays, camping, apple picking, dancing and dishes we here at  Dontrustheruin Records have come out with a gorgeous new  release.  Brother Oak is our brother in life and music. He shines...
 Fall is here! 

Last weekend we saw...

Below are photos from The Waterfall Arts Festival in Montville, Maine
12,000 Trees

What Cheer? Brigade rocked the RO HE GE  Barn and made us all shake our tail feathers

 Uke of Space County Corners crooned and bloomed--always with the most beautiful voices and sounds. They are my absolute favorite band to listen to --on record and live!

We played almost all new stuff and improvised alot

Daniel Higgs conjured and testified by the fire fumbling for light in the dark.

The shows were awesome and exhausting, the people we met and walked with and talked to ruled. 

Daniel Higgs

Thank you to our hosts Dan, Amy, Drew, Rose, Andy and Claire.

NO shows till October but planty of music coming out on Time lag, DTTR and more.

Below are photos from The Waterfall Arts Festival in Montville, Maine

Come see us play in Belfast, Maine 14 th & 16th or Portland on the 17th

Photos by Sita Magnuson     Conway Barn show, Western, Mass 

terribly exciting...three shows with Daniel Higgs

For those of you who don't know Daniel Higgs, he is the wordsmith and voice of Lungfish and The Pupils. His poetry and art have been published worldwide. Higgs is a visionary artist whose presence and performances inspire very strong reactions. I link the title of the blog..just click on it will ye!

First show August 14th...Friday Festivities ....BIG Big nite at RO HE GE  

12 Mill Ln Belfast,  Maine

Higgs & Echolepsy

Big Blood

Uke of Spacial Corners

Over a Cardboard Sea

What Cheer Brigade!

Starts at 7PM 

Sunday show at Waterfall Arts

RAIN OR SHINE!!!!

SUN AUG 16th

12-12:45pm Belfast Bay Fiddlers

1-1:45pm 12,000 Trees

2-2:45pm Perpetual E-Motion

3-3:45pm BIG BLOOD
4-4:45pm FRIGATE
5-6pm DANIEL HIGGS

@ WATERFALL ARTS KINGDOM FALLS
52 KINGDOM ROAD MONTVILLE MAINE 04941

time-lag records presents:

MONDAY, AUGUST 17th

• DANIEL HIGGS
• BILL NACE
• BIG BLOOD
• ASA IRONS

@ the apohadion, 107 hanover st., portland maine. 8pm. $5.00

Tapes Rule

Holy tapes that look and sound good! 

Our friends and compadres from Athens, Greece a.k.a.Reverse Mouth totally rule!! One member, Panagiotis runs a label here. He put a lovely tape version of our album The Grove about a year ago. I just love his taste in paper and print.

 We played two shows with Reverse Mouth two weeks ago at a barn in Conway, Mass withHorse Spirit Penetrates(love love love 'em), a solo performance from Human Adult Band which stole my heart, and Michael Jackson--michael thomas jackson that is. (I have to add a side note...I truly hate the formatting, messaging and pop up freak-out-ness of myspace. However the upside of that ruinous marketing tool is that we can all go to these band sites and hear what people are doing right now... and for that i am sort of thankful.)

i drew during almost all of the sets at the barn show.

 Thanks to Kieran for his superior hospitality, HSP's killer set, and bear hugginess. We stayed up waaaay to late--not being parents just music-cans, riding the crazy frenetic moshing energy of the night and taking cracks at lame contemporary singers while defending Sade, thanks to the late night crew.

The pawtucket show was more serious and somber. we wer lucky to play with Uke of spaces and lucky they played on our set. Soo many friends came out it was overwhelming and awesome. I forgot my camera or maybe i left it at home on purpose. Here's the scrawling diary like snapshots of our two day "tour".

 

maybe this link will make you laugh...click on it

DTTR's been busy...


we heart WFMU and WFMU hearts Big Blood here

our friend Patrick set up our home base at the archives where you can download alot of albums here

We are actually playing two shows out of town!!! One in Western Mass and another in Pawtucket, RI

go here for details

 

sun

New DTTR Releases that we loooove

Good to be home!

We are getting ready for a relaxing summer… hopefully…

Anyway… we just released 4 new albums two by us, Already Gone I & II and here's the deal on the other two...

dttr #015 Inspector 22 “The Waiting Grave”

  Inspector 22 is the brainchild of Todd Wesley Emmert.  Residing in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, “The Waiting Grave” is the follow up to IRNI which we released a little over a year ago. IRNI was one of our all time favorites… but we gotta say “The Waiting Grave” is even better. It kills. To hear somebody hit "it" on every song is just mind-blowing; needless to say we are big fans. 

The song ‘Cannibal’ could be an all time classic. Really you could say that about every song on this album. We can’t recommend it enough.

dttr#016  Accident Child – “Into the Gorge”

    Before we started doing the DTTR label we were both finding ourselves only listening to music of the past. For one, there’s so much great music that has come and gone, and truthfully it was getting harder and harder to relate to music happening today. So one of the greatest things for us to do is to release music we love, by people living today… peers, friends etc. “Into the Gorge” came to us through a CD trade and man were we hooked right from the beginning, We played this one over and over on our car rides this past summer.

Matt Norris is Accident Child. If you had to describe it, loner folk would be as good a term as any. Reminds us a bit of Tuli from The Fugs or King Darves. A real intimate listen. “Into the Gorge” plays out like a life story, from birth to present. Matt’s words sneak up on you and tell their story with a delivery akin to the masters. This one is a real gem!

All 4 new dontrustheruin releases can be ordered from

here, here, and here

In other news, we, Big Blood have finished up an album for Time-Lag called “Dead Songs”, another for the label Peasant Magik called “Operators and Things”, and a tape for Cabin Floor Esoterica called “Night Terrors in the Isle of Louis Hardin” all due out…. well who knows… but that’s the word!

Recommended listening – Exuma, Our Poor Neighbors, Garm, Brother Oak, Uke of Spaces, Radikal Satan, Kletka Red, Missy Elliott.

  

ohhhhh vacation and back

Already Gone I & II

Here's the newest news...

Updates for those of you looking forward to our new double disc ...we have finished printing the covers, inserts and extras. We've assembled and packed them all up and they look very nice if we do say so ourselves. 

WFMU wants Big Blood and our new cds on their new Free Music Archives  feature article. If you don't know about WFMU is a terrific station in New Jersey that has killer dj's and programs that you can download for free. Our new cds and the whole Big Blood catalogue will also be available for download through the Free Music Archives.  

Time Lag will be getting the hard copies by May 15th as well  as North East Indie and Tomentosa Records.