Un|Herd Archives 

Episode #16

March 22nd, 2010 

Moodring graced the studio with their upbeat noise and indie style funk. I wrote my own take on the band, and while browsing their label's website, I read a review almost identical to mine, confirming my perspective. 

"This a truly bizzare album. It’s dark yet not too heavy, it’s simple but then again has complex arrangements, it’s solid but each track is a master’s work. The many conflicts in Moodring’s albums, like many Rollerball albums, is what makes this band so special & this album to a delightful piece of work."

~ Small Town Romance

Enough Said... have a listen.

Un|Herd Archives 

Episode #17

April 5, 2010 

Abusive/Consumer, formerly Abusive Delay, possibly to be named simply Consumer, is a dynamic sonic artist and noise performer with a flavor for digital synthesis, sampling, rhythm and anti-blues. Formerly a free jazz drummer, even his drones become rhythmic. The fellow is enrolled at Evergreen College for the Fall, studying Sound Design. His extensive explorations of sound will surely reach new heights and I'm sure to track the progress as it goes. You would be advised to start here if you haven't already.

Alas we have arrived at Un | Herd Archive Episode number 13. This one includes two performances, the main show being that of an improvisational duet entitled, Deeds. And they are Brian Mumford on electric guitar and Un | Herd veteran, John Niekrasz on drums. The second portion of the show will be a 6 minute clip from one of my earliest programs featuring John again on drums and Seth Brown on Fender Rhodes piano, performing as Why I Must Be Careful. The prior goes back to November 23, 2009, and the latter goes back to November 24, 2008. I believe they were both debut performances; the prior was totally new and improvised; the latter was freshly composed. So please enjoy Deeds and Why I Must Be Careful.

Welcome to Un|Herd Archive episode #7.

I will be combining two programs and three performances: Sustentacula, Jean-Paul Jenkins, and False Entries. Sustentacula is David Rafn – designer, improviser, singer-songwriter -- performing acoustic guitar and prepared noisy things, from his new album on Rasbliutto Recordings. Jean-Paul Jenkins is he-who-plays-in-the-world, as an improviser or abstract composer, also on Rasbliutto Recordings, this time playing with guttural, fuzzed out bluesy electric guitar. The laterally mentioned performances were broadcast live, March 23^rd 2009.

For the 3^rd part of this show, we have Golden Retriever, which was a debut performance between Matt Carlson and Jonathan Sieloff, and was recorded March 2^nd, 2009. Carlson and Sieloff are each academically learned musicians who took to the Portland scene of improvisers and avante-garde composers. Golden Retriever demonstrates modal improvisation using electrified bass clarinet (Sieloff) and synthesizer keyboards (Carlson).

This program was produced and engineered by Sean Ongley.