new songs & a show…

Hello to you dear friend,

I’m coming to you this morning after yet another night spent, not sleeping, but writing. Over the last few months I have been very busy working on a new project that I’m calling Välmart. Say it with a German or Austrian accent, feels good, right? Yes, I know. My buddies Nico and Ben are doing it with me and we’re slowly but surely piecing together four or five pieces of music that will eventually become songs that we hope to extend and fuck with live…

It’s been almost a year since Casket Salesmen has been active (I called it a hibernation, not a hiatus). But, we recently got together at the new studio in Chinatown and started working on new tunes, sorta. If you haven’t been keeping tabs we moved out of the Longhair Illuminati / Solunaris HQ in Corona, CA a little under a year ago. I relocated to Los Angeles, Nate and Ryan are still stuck in the IE… It’s taken us about 8 months to get into a new space, but we’re there, maaan.

At first Välmart was just using the space, but now I am happy to announce that my weeks are spent splitting time between Casket Salesmen and Välmart writing/jam sessions. We record everything we jam so we are taking notes and putting stuff together and these jams are slowly becoming ideas which might become songs soon.

I guess the only other thing of importance to announce is that Casket Salesmen will be doing a show (most likely our only show of 2009) on Sunday, September 27 @ Knitting Factory in Los Angeles as part of The Second Annual Longhair Illuminati Art & Music Festival. This will also be one of the last shows ever at Knitting Factory…well, the Knitting Factory as we know it today… I guess they are moving out of the Disneyland/Time Square section of Hollywood (ugh, I hate it down there)…

Not sure if we’re gonna do any old songs, but I’m pretty sure we will bum like 2 people out if we don’t so we probably will… But no promises, k? Word.

been listening to:
George Harrison
Black Keys
Rx Bandits
Bjork
The Mars Volta
Al Green
Wilco
The Exit
Talking Heads
King Crimson
Curtis Mayfield
Spoon
Fire Theft
Tortoise
Radiohead
Daft Punk
Eagles of Death Metal
Mastodon
Bob Dylan
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
The Bronx
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Glitch Mob
James Brown
Desert Sessions
Charles Mingus
Flight of the Conchords
The Fireman

been working day and night putting this festival together… what festival? check it – myspace.com/longhairfest