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Jerry's week

This is going to be a busy week for me. Vocal sessions will resume with Mr Duffy, up next is Ten Bel Air. This should be a pretty laid back affair. Rob can get in the zone when he has a belly full of warm food, and his players are scoring in his hockey pool (hopefully jj's arm won't make him upset). We'll probably use the same mic from This is Paradise. That Neumann TLM103 is a pretty sweet sounding mic, I must admit.

Other than that, I might be starting work on a new project with a mystery artist later in the week.
Might as well give you an update on JVR releases for 2006:
- the long-awaited ep from the Avenue should surface soon. All thats left is vocals, final overdubs, finishing mixes, and mastering. Springtime should see a dramatic increase in work for this. Definitely an album for the ages. It'll be worth the wait!
- the highly anticipated Frank Scornaienchi side project. Frank has been working with Jerry on his days off from the band, and the product has already garnered rave reviews from those who have been allowed to sample it. Filip Endula has been featured on a couple tracks adding instrumental overdubs where necessary.
- Speaking of Filip, he's been hard at work putting together pieces for a (hopefully) full-length album.
- Demos have been circulating via email for a new project featuring Robin Jones, Chris Morais, and Jason Nobrega. No word yet on whether Joe Pascal will re-enter the fold. Chris and Jason have been jamming together for some time now and sending mp3s over to Robin to figure out. Studio time has been booked for later on in the Spring.
- Production will begin on resurrecting the Porter Live at the Rivoli tapes to DVD status for a possible CD/DVD release on JVR.

Lots to look forward to, not to mention all of the post-humous releases Jerry talked about in his last post.

JVR Website

Update from Jerry Velvet:

"Preliminary work has begun on the new Jerry Velvet Records website. Realistic publishing date would be 6 months from now. I'll be recruiting some more staff to help with the design. I have also been busy as hell trying to sign artists, and getting together a backcatalogue of now-defunct projects. In addition, I am pleased as bacon to announce that among the albums to be available in our online store is a special compilation compiled by me personally of side projects, demos, live cuts, and one-off collaborations from each of the JVR artists. Filip Endula has been gathering together these songs, and scouring his numerous hard drives to unearth these gems. Lots to look forward to! Jerry Velvet."

Sounds exciting. Post script: Jerry neglected to mention that he is accepting demos from artists to either produce or release as is. To contact Jerry, please send an email to jerryvelvet (at) gmail.com

Glimpse

Milk Cat

Another venture in random internet searches. This from the depths of Flickr, the photo-sharing website. Well, I confess I found this through steve isaacs' blog (singer from panic channel)

anyway, I encourage everyone to explore the spontaneous possibilities of the internet. One thing I like doing is clicking "random article" on wikipedia.

Dinsdale?

I still resent you for not showing up at my intervention.

Day One

So, upon entering the world of "blogging" I can't help but feel that this is just an ego-inflation. As if I'm writing to all my fans around the world, or as if people really care what kind of coffee I had today (Sulawesi, by the way).

I also resent the word blog. Like the word podcast, this is a new word invented for something really old. A blog is a web journal. The internet began over a decade ago with people publishing their web journals. Now, all of a sudden, some writer for WIRED magazine calls it a BLOG (backwards abbreviation for weblog), and we're to believe this is some new technology! Fuckers. And podcasting. A podcast is a downloadable radio show, right? Since when was this something new? Someone put the word pod in there to make it sound like it's part of the ipod revolution. Now both of these stupid words are in the Oxford English Dictionary. Oh well.

Stay tuned for more fascinating insights from your man, Filip Endula