Monkeyclaus» abel

City Saints – by We Are Star Children

abel — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:56:57 +0000

Check out the latest single by We Are Star Children, City Saints. Support Their effort to complete an album by downloading this single. And I think that you even get bonus material for your pre-release support !!

City Saints Download

Recorded at Monkeyclaus and produced by Abel Okugawa, City Saints tells the tale of crazy wisdom, Buddhist mischief and revelry. All proceeds go towards the release of We Are Star Children's new and upcoming album.

Make Your own iPhone App. to Sell your Merch !

abel — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:39:53 +0000

Create, launch, and manage your own custom iPhone application through MobBase.com

Custom design your iPhone app and share music, photos, videos, tweets, gig dates, ticket sales, merchandise and links to buy your music on iTunes with your fans. For as little as $.50 a day, MobBase gives you a mobile, interactive fan club, storefront, merchandise table, and more.

Your iPhone app is highly customizable and can have your unique image, look, and feel — you pick and choose the content you offer to fans, arrange the features however you like, upload background and button images, and select color themes. And, because MobBase is built on an advanced content management system, it’s easy to add, manage and update content and design in real-time, whenever the mood strikes.

No its not FREE , but it does sound FUN !

Click Here to get started

The Garage – Charlottesville’s Most Intimate Venue

abel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:30:17 +0000

I recently stumbled upon The Garage while it was open and running with music and art blaring out into the night. I think it is the coolest little spot in Charlottesville yet. Tiny because the actual size is about the size of one of the JPJ Arena's subwoofers . In the line of underground music venues like the long lived and lost , Pudhouse, The Garage is a seemingly Free music and art venue that is host to some most interesting original works coming out of C'ville life today.

Long live tiny music venues.

The Garage is an art space/concert venue/amateur film theater/
impromptu studio/potluck dining hall/etc located on 1st Street across from Lee Park in Charlottesville, Virginia.

On most Friday nights, you can find the Garage’s door wide open as we enjoy art openings/viewings of monthly exhibitions or concerts by local and regional bands that bring together large crowds in the stadium seating (aka: on the hill of the park) across the street. We’re also known to host an occasional film screening, dance party, art performance, potluck, or other creative gathering as requested (or hosted) by a community member.

Here at the Garage we value community, creativity, collaboration, and accessibility. We love the paradox of the Garage’s intimacy and yet strange publicness.

We are interested in what it means to be creating and facilitating art in a “public yet private” context. We are not exactly sure where the Garage is located within those realms, but we are inquisitively exploring the topic through various art projects and collaborative conversations.

You can get in touch with the Garage by contacting:
Kate Daughdrill: kate.daughdrill@gmail.com
Sam Bush: spb2n@virginia.edu

More Info at The Garage Website

Stencil – Time Lapse – Joe Iurato

abel — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:20:23 +0000

Joe Iurato has just completed his first large scale outdoor stencil. While I was at first glance disrupted by the insertion of colors, I must admit that the result is equal to his smaller greyscales pieces. Poetry wins.
This stencil was created from a picture by Transgress. Timelapse by Nilepoc.com. Music from Abel Okugawa.

Stickam iPhone app released! Watch any show and chat live with any user from your iPhone

abel — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:23:38 +0000

Now you can enjoy all of the great entertainment on Stickam when you're on the go! The Stickam iPhone app allows you to watch any live Stickam stream and join the interactive chat rooms. Find a show or your friends and chat live from your iPhone. You will never miss an opportunity to interact with a live stream from your favorite celebrities, bands, live podcasts, top radio stations, or TV shows ever again. Features:

* View featured shows
* View popular live shows and social users of Stickam
* View your live friends
* Search for live users
* Chat with live users
* Landscape and portrait viewing mode supported
* Watch with 3G and Wifi

Download the APP HERE

Sony Soundville

abel — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:25:13 +0000

Check out Sony Corporations newest promotion. Dont you want to live in Soundville ? or at least play your favorite records there.

Soundville, the latest ad campaign from Sony, is less of a traditional commercial and more of an acoustic art experiment. Juan Cabral of London-based ad firm Fallon transformed the sleepy Icelandic village of Seydisfjordur into quite possibly the world's largest sound system, including, amidst what appear to be hundreds of tweeters (the speaker kind) and woofers, a 20-foot tower of speakers. For three days, nonstop music -- from dance to folk to ambient -- pulsated through the town as Cabral's film crew recorded the residents' reactions. Since the town has a population of only 400 in winter and almost no traffic, Cabral (who also helmed a beautiful Bravia bouncing ball spot) was able "to create a pure sound experience" that powerfully reverberates off the mountains and fjords.Soundville, the latest ad campaign from Sony, is less of a traditional commercial and more of an acoustic art experiment. Juan Cabral of London-based ad firm Fallon transformed the sleepy Icelandic village of Seydisfjordur into quite possibly the world's largest sound system, including, amidst what appear to be hundreds of tweeters (the speaker kind) and woofers, a 20-foot tower of speakers. For three days, nonstop music -- from dance to folk to ambient -- pulsated through the town as Cabral's film crew recorded the residents' reactions. Since the town has a population of only 400 in winter and almost no traffic, Cabral (who also helmed a beautiful Bravia bouncing ball spot) was able "to create a pure sound experience" that powerfully reverberates off the mountains and fjords.
by Matthew Zuras

Lossless Loss – Kohoutek LP release

abel — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:51:09 +0000

Kohoutek's second studio album and second vinyl pressing, Lossless Loss, was officially released last night, and we have them in our hands. Recorded two years ago in Virginia at Monkeyclaus Studio, and completed in May 2008, we finally found a wonderful and supportive home in Prophase Records (who also releases Yahowha 13, Acid Mothers Temple, Plastic Crimewave Sound, and soon, the debut of VA's own Dark Sea Dream).

Lossless Loss, the second studio album from Mid-Atlantic improv collective Kohoutek, covers most of the dynamic stylistic range Kohoutek is known for: abstract and textural sound, atmospheric rock, harsh noise freakouts, clattering percussion, guitar heroics, and alien electronics congealing to form a multihued psychedelic extravaganza. Recorded deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in September 2007, the five members embarked on a psilocybic twilight journey, and this 44-minute aural excursion is the result. No overdubs and minimal editing create an experience as close as possible to a Kohoutek performance. With longtime core members Scott Verrastro (percussion, flute), Craig Garrett (bass) and Scott Allison (electronics) augmented by Vic Salazar (electric guitar) and Damian Languell (vocals, harmonica, clarinet, didgeridoo, Space Echo), Kohoutek forge their own path in the improv universe, and Lossless Loss is another burning fragment of this fleeting sonic comet.

get The Vinyl HERE

2009 Crozet Music Festival – FREE Download

abel — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:08:41 +0000

This is a mix of songs all recorded and mixed at Monkeyclaus studio, a variety of style and genre, all great music by great artists. There are 11 songs in total for your listening pleasure. This Download also marks our first CSR movement (Community Supported Recording) that we will be launching soon. Monkeyclaus is dedicated to bringing exclusive new content from our microphone to your iPhone delivered using cutting edge technology. Download and enjoy this sampler and support the artists that make this possible by either donating HERE or purchasing more music for the Monkeyclaus Digital Download Store. In the future you will be able to receive media delivered directly to you via our CSR program, so stay tuned for more and send us a message if you would like to sign on to the CSR program as it happens (bottom of page).

Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file.

Required fields are marked *.

Beak – ‘Iron Acton’

abel — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:39:13 +0000

Check out this new seemingly controversial music from the band BEAK>. BEAK> were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow (Geoff Barrow , who was/is a staple in the band Portishead, my favorite). This is much more indy rock sounding but still cool, will this type of music survive today ? If they are ever in the USA Monkeyclaus would love to host a Monkey Session with them.

The band have very strict guidelines governing the recording and writing process of their work. The music was recorded live in one room with no overdubs or repair, only using edits to create arrangements. All tracks were written over a twelve-day session in SOA Studios, Bristol. The album is to be released on the 19th of october 2009 on Invada Records Europe and ipecac in North America.

A limited edition box set version of the album will be available from September direct from the Invada website. Inside a specially designed black Beak> box will be a CD version of the album, a limited edition CD EP, 12" vinyl with 2 bonus tracks and a T Shirt. You can pre- order from this link:

http://invadarecords.bigcartel.com/

Ehecatl Tour – 2020 and Alex Schein

abel — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:31:10 +0000

Check out the sounds from the Ehecatl Tour :

The mission is simple. The vision is universal. The travel will be medicine.

With the gift and talents Creator has given us, we will embark on a journey throughout Turtle Island to highlight and help the creation of peace that’s already formulating amongst our young brothers and sisters. Through music, poetry, singing, M.C.ing and dialog we will help raise the consciousness and offer inspiration to the movers of those communities.

The short term objective is to know that everyone of us is taking responsibility for the healing of ourselves, our families, and our communities; through determination, respect, love for life, dialog, creativity and remembering to live as one, once again.

The long term objective is a generation of intelligent coherent spiritual human beings–always remembering their responsibility to our Mother Earth and the respect for all other living beings.

With this vision we will continue to live and evolve to where we came from.

Check The SIte CLICK OUT HERE