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

Alex Schein

Alex Schein has once again blessed Monkeyclaus with his presence,this time recording acoustic. Schein recorded two songs , an acoustic version of the amazing Rise Up and a new song titled Breathe Out. You can check them out below or at AlexSchein.com. Once again it is time to rise up and make music and choices. Please enjoy these songs and let us know what you think.

Rise Up Acoustic

Breathe Out

We used a Sony C37 Mic and our Millenia TD1 for the guitars signal ran directly into Pro-Tools . The songs were recorded and mixed in 3 days.

These two wonderful musicians majestically settled into Monkeyclaus quite comfortable. Setting up their zone in the Live Room , they began the music making process with a few home made dehydrated sour cherries picked from Peter's cherry tree outside the studio. They cut 7 tracks and then continued the session in the bus where they were interviewed in depth and out of inspiration. Soon the recordings, interview and multi media slice of the creative process for The Honey Dew Drops will be ready to enjoy online .

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Summoning the days of yore, Tanakh's Monkey Session was something which captured the true spirit of traveling musicians.  The recording session showcased the resilience of the human spirit and the power found in turning duress into beauty.  The Italian five-piece collective arrived to our studio road-weary and bleary-eyed at midnight, after a 14 hour drive from Bloomington, Indiana.  The final leg of the journey found Tanakh lost in the Blue Ridge Mountains, separated from their destination, Monkeyclaus, by only one large mountain.  Our scout, sent to collect Tanakh, found them hungry, frustrated, and tired.  Several pizzas and two bottles of wine later, a newly inspired mood was imparted and the band reborn.

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The decision to record informally on the porch of our farmhouse proved to be a perfect match for the moment.  Tanakh set up across the porch in rocking chairs, porch swings and old wooden chairs and proceeded to manifest the gypsy-inspired sounds of genuine spontaneous Appalachain porch-folk.  Monkeyclaus is where worlds collide and influences meld into one coherent gumbo.  Tanakh played naturally and beautifully with a melange of familiar, borrowed, and improvised instruments.

Tanakh currently consists of Jesse Poe, Viola Mattioli, Oretta Giunti, Matteo Bennici, and Umberto Trivella.  Poe is the founding member and an ex-Virginian / ex-Patriot living as a musician in Florence, Italy.  The group was co-founded with Them Against Them's Phil Murphy in Richmond, Virginia many years ago.  Over time Jesse has remained the sole constant, while working with dozens of talented individuals.  *(see Jesse's myspace page to soak in the full roster)* This Monkey Session is the sound of Tanakh on tour in May 2006 in the days following their gorgeous performance at the Terrastock 6 Psychedelic Music Festival in Providence, Rhode Island.  Please also check out our previous post of an e-mail interview with Tanakh which we think you may find very intriguing.  Enjoy!

Alex Schein's 2006's "Speed Of Light" CD, released on Schein's own SkyHunter Music imprint,
is written, performed, and produced by Schein. Schein himself is truly a modern testament to positivity. While many contemporary artists stake claim to holding the torch of the positive,
few can even begin to match Schein for authentic, pretense-free, vital-spirit communication.
Schein is on a path of giving and searching. He gives us his view of "the universal"
and the need for all of Planet Earth to unite, overcoming differences and embracing the congruity and similitude amongst us all. Schein is searching for "a timeless place" that is a manifestation of light, with light being the central image and concept for Schein's CD.

Alex Schein - Audio Collage
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This ain't some Hip-Hop bullshit. This is elevated music for elevation. Frank and honest lyrics combine with stripped-down rhythm tracks that buoy Alex's "sense of awe of himself and the world around him". Minimal melodies reinforce the clarity of the vocal messages and the notion of the "self-awareness" we all possess. Schein shares the themes of "personal reflection and spiritual renewal" and "deeper levels of understanding with ourselves and the world around us".
The 11 songs on "Speed Of Light" are smooth and rooted in nature. Tracks such as "Knot Poetry", "Gift Of Gabriel", "Mind Of The Maker", "On Your Side", and "Rise Up" are particularly nice and exhibit Schein's style and method.

Schein's "Speed Of Light" was recorded at Monkeyclaus Studio in Nelson County, Virginia, with Abel Okugawa engineering and mixing the record. Additional recording and mixing was done at
Playback Recording Studio in New York City. The CD was mastered by Mike Wells in San Francisco.

Schein earned a B.A. in Religion & Philosophy from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg,
Virginia. Schein has spent time in Durban, South Africa, and Mali, West Africa. Schein also acted as management for the Bosnia Peace Project Tour with The Dave Matthews Band. Additionally, Alex has worked for non-profit organizations focusing on youth development. He is a member of
Hip-Hop Congress, performing at the Midwest Hip-Hop Congress Summit in 2002, 2004, and 2006.

Schein has been working closely with climbing and bouldering filmmaker Josh Lowell recently.
Lowell, who runs Big Up Productions, has featured Schein's music in the films "Pilgrimage", "Dosage III", and "Dosage IV". Schein has said he is very appreciative of the support he received from the rock climbing community. Lowell also produced a music video for "Rise Up", which is the first single from the new "Speed Of Light" CD. The video is to premier this Fall. It features breakdancing in caves. And that's Fresh. Schein will be performing this Fall on the Reel Rock Tour.

"Speed Of Light" is available at alexschein.com and also through iTunes.

Fursaxa is the sounds of Tara Burke. This cryptic word is something which was spelled out by Tara's phone number at some point in time. She is magical and humble. It is rumored that she lives in a stone house on a farm in the country. She uses minimal tools, such as a casio sk-1, dulcimer, shakers and a sampling pedal to build up soaring soundscapes. Her music is holy and mystical. It is the sound of a high priestess enchanting and inducting the audience into a world of mystery. This really could be hidden magic from a culture not yet discovered. Tara has said in a past interview, "I get strong feelings like I've been a part of other cultures in other lifetimes." Monkeyclaus recorded Fursaxa in an old stone cathedral on the grounds of the University of Virginia, this past April when she was on tour with Jack Rose. Listen here and experience a unique recording of this talented artist in her element. Read the interview linked below to feel closer to the source of the music. Visit her website and find the discography. Save your money and buy the whole catalog.
Fursaxa Official Website
Fursaxa Interview, Bio and History

Over the years you may have heard the beauty of Bobby's singing and songwriting with great local bands such as The Hackensaw Boy's and The Virginia Jihad. You can still occasionally catch a live solo performance in or around Charlottesville, but for the most part he has been spending his time in the great Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia building a house for his loving wife Emma and their two beautiful children Corin and Mia.

Box of Pine
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Dead Bird on My Shoulder
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Mother Earth
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In early 2006, Bobby blessed the ears and hearts of Monkeyclaus with a three day recording session. In those three days Bobby reached deep into his magic top hat and pulled out sixteen incredible songs for his up and coming solo album. In addition to his already mesmerizing guitar and vocals, Bobby also played stellar banjo and fiddle on many of the tracks.

Here is one sample from his (soon to be released) solo album.

Live at The Jefferson Theater - Charlottesville
Sarah White Audio

Monkeyclaus is additionally very excited to facilitate the live recording of Sarah White also from the Jefferson Theater on April 20, 2006. Miss White is Charlottesville's best kept secret in the artistic realm along with Hillbilly Werewolf. An underground singer-songwriter, White spent time growing up in both Virginia and West Virginia, which seemingly has paid off in spades. White is cool and classic all the way -- think Carter Family with a modern twist. The guitar is a sweet old Gibson acoustic, that runs a line between folk, rock, country, and punk. The lyrics are the dessert or the desert flower. Look for more excellence in the near future from Sarah and her fine band The Pearls.

Check out Sarah White's website

Tanakh began as a collaboration of Jesse Poe with Phil Murphy in Richmond, Viriginia quite some time ago...From there it has grown into a project carried on by Poe and aided by the esteemed musical talents of a revolving cast of musicians.  The current line up is Jesse Poe, Umberto Trivella, Viola Mattioli, Oretta Giunti, Matteo Bennici, Cathy Lucas, Michele Poulos, Curtis Fye, Darius Jones, Clarke Hedgepath. (below is taken from the Tanakh biography.)

"Besides Poe, the present core members of Tanakh include Michele Poulos, electric bass and backing vocals (Poulos, Songs Of Patrick Phelan), Curtis Fye, upright bass (Devil's Workshop, Boots of Leather), Dan Calhoune, violin, Ben Scott, sound manipulation (Ting Ting Jahe, Crevlyn), Brian Jones, percusion (Brian Jones Wurlitzer Trio, Boots of Leather, Them against Them), Darius Jones, saxophone ( CUD, Birds in the Meadow, and Daniel Carter), Clarke Hedgepath, electric guitar (Richmond Latin Ballet), and Ayman Fanous, flamenco guitar and bazookee (Ayman has participated in a series of duets including Burn Nix, Elliot Sharp, Tomas Ulrich, etc.).  Others that have participated in the Tanakh collective include Pat Best (Pelt), Phil Murphy (Them Against Them, Broken Hips), Jeff Krones, Via Nuon (Bevel, Spence, Manishevitz), Tom Brickman (Broken Hips), Peter Neff (Tulsa Drone), Jim Thompson (Tulsa Drone, GWAR), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, IZITITIZ), E-yage, Paul Watson (Them Against Them, Sparklehorse), Coby Batty (Bongwater, John Zorn, F.U.G.S.), Miguel Urbiztondo (Maki, Crooked Fingers), T.C. Deane, T.N. Roane, Brian Freeman, Nirmal Bajekal, Pam Edwards, Adam Meuse, David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven), Johnny Hickman (Cracker), Mic Turner (Dirty 3), Ned Oldham (Anomoanon, palace), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), and Jessica Billey (Smog, Boxhead Ensemble)."

The fantastic alien8 label out of Montreal, Canada has been releasing Tanakh's records and currently Jesse resides in Florence , Italy.   Tanakh will be playing at the Terrastock 6 Psychedelic Music festival in Providence RI beginning this April 20th, sharing stages and audiences with varied psychedelic acts from around the world, such as Lightning Bolt, Bardo Pond, Windy and Carl, and the Japanese luminaries Ghost.

Jesse and Umberto thanks for the interview.  As some very in depth interview's already exist on the web i'd like to focus specifically on a few questions I have that are more timely and specific and less general and biographical.  We will link to some of the these other interviews at the end of this one.  Both of you can answer the same question if you want or trade off.  Some questions would be great with two answers really....

MC:  Firstly I'd like to ask about Terrastock and your involvement in it.  How were you invited? Was your trip here to the states based around this festival or was it a happy coincidence that you'd be in the country?

Jesse: Well I have to say in part we are because of Phil McMullen and Terrastock. My friend Ben Chasny encouraged me to send a copy of the cdr of Villa Claustrophobia to Phil personally, claiming he would love it, and thankfully he did, and wrote a heart-felt stellar review in which he admonished a label out there to bottle this record while they still could. I will always be indebted to Phil for his enthusiasm and furthermore the budding friendship that ensued, which for me although a result of music, far outweighs music. This time around Phil asked us to play and not only was it a dream come true but seemed like a full-circle for us. Amazing it coincided with the release of our new record Ardent Fevers which comes out today! April 19th. We decided that it would be criminal to come to the US and not also try and support our new record just as it hits the shelves even if coming now meant a truly DIY tour.

MC: Will you be bringing the whole ensemble that you currently work with from Italy?

Umberto: Yep we are all here, relaxing in the country practicing and getting used to doughnuts instead of Brioche.

MC: Terrastock seems to be showcasing many different acts that operate under the very amorphous category of psychedelia.  How do you see yourself and Tanakh fitting into that world?  What does psychedelia means to you personally?

Jesse: Well I have been to a few Terrastocks and each was a mind-blowing experience of music and a true since of family/community, and one of the things that has always impressed me not only about the festival but also about the magazine, is that there is no exclusion of genre or mode of operation, only a focus on beauty and a true flight of the mind and spirit to a better place. In this way you might see a guy with just a voice and an old acoustic, which is hard to classify as psychedelia, but the spirit is there and buttressed with other acts who are playing a full-on psychedelic sound, it all makes since. Which I guess is how Tanakh fits in. I wouldn't say that we are representative of that full-on psychedelic sound but maybe a bridge between the guy on the acoustic and the full-on psychedelic sound. All together it seems to make up a holistic view of psyche, because well you know, nobody listens to only one kind of music these days, it is impossible and simple-minded if you could even manage to do so, or maybe obsessive is a better way of saying it. But I think that people do listen to a single feeling or mode of communicating, and the world of psych is definitely one of those voices/hearts. It seems to be one, as I feel it and try to communicate it in my own music and my own record purchases, of a true love of life, but not just this one, a life beyond what is tangible and dreaming for something transcendent, a possession of sorts, where you are the rider and the ridden, a loss of body and a capture of mind, but a mind that is more collective and beauty driven, I don't find any nostalgia in it in the English sense of the word, leave that to tribute bands, but I do find nostalgia in it in the Italian sense of the word, a longing for something you knew perhaps the bliss of a love or when you were a child and it was enough to linger in the sunbathed warmth of your mothers arms with knowledge of your re-incarnation or passage from heaven, but without the vocal skills to communicate it or the knowledge of needing to communicate it, remembering this forgetting in a way that is only felt in eyes-rolled-back lay on the floor loose yourself in the music psychedelica.

MC: I have a theory that the reason psychedelic music is making resurgence or at least having a more widespread appeal is because the world is getting so surreal, warped and technological and it makes a nice respite, escape or catharsis.  Also maybe war has something to do with it, as psychedelia was born in the Vietnam War era?  What do you think?

Matteo: Piu’il mondo diventa surreale, piu’la gente ha bisogno di essere ipnotizzata! Credo che la psichedelia sia un’attitudine, ancor prima che un movimento musicale, che nasce da un desiderio di approfondire il rapporto con la propria coscienza, di essere piu’ profondamente “psicoattivi” ed in questo senso si tratta di ricerca, scoperta e anche catarsi. Non condivido una  visione passiva del viaggio psichedelico, affidato unicamente a droghe, credo che sia dannoso e che inevitabilmente si concluda in una delusione nei confronti della realta’. Riguardo alla guerra penso che quando I nostri governi agiscono in modo criminale contro la nostra volonta’, ci sentiamo frustrati, traditi e coinvolti; dobbiamo affrontare tale coinvolgimento in maniera cosciente e non fuggire, ma portare un chiaro messaggio di dissenso. E’chiaro che le generazioni reagiscano in maniera differente ai periodi di Guerra e spesso in maniera creativa, come nel caso della psichedelia e del pacifismo nato tra I ’60 e I’ 70. Purtroppo l’esperienza del Vietnam si ripropone continuamente (l’era del Vietnam non e’mai finita!) ma le generazioni attuali faticano a reagire in modo efficace a tale situazione e alla fine si cade nell’indifferenza.
Piu’che di fuga o catarsi in questo momento c’e’ un gran bisogno di spazio di azione politica, che ci viene negato sempre di piu’.

[translation of above] The more the world becomes surreal, the more people need to be hypnotized! I believe that psychedelia is even more than a musical movement, it is an attitude, which is born from desire to go deeper to the roots of our relationship to our own conscience, to be more deeply psychoactive, and in this way it is about research, discovery and catharsis. I don’t share the passive vision of the psychedelic trip leaning only on drugs as a means of achieving this state. I think it is damaging and sooner or later it ends in delusion when you are confronted with reality. About the war I think that when our government acts in a criminal way against our will, we feel frustrated, betrayed and involved. We have to face such involvement in a very conscious way and not escape, but give a clear message of not standing for their shit. It is clear that different generations have different reactions during times of war and often in a creative way, like psychedelia and pacifism which was born in the 60’s and 70’s, unfortunately the Vietnam experience repeats itself on and on, or maybe the Vietnam era has never ended, but today’s generation is a bit too tired to react in an efficient way to this situation, and in the end they fall into complacency more than true escape or catharsis. At this moment, there is a great need for space of political activism which is denied to us more and more ever day.

MC: What acts at Terrastock are you most excited to see?

Jesse: Ghost, Ghost, Ghost, Ghost, Ghost! and Tom Rapp, you'll find both on my god shelf.

Umberto: Maybe Ghost and Avarus.. but they are all very interesting!

Viola: I don't know many of the bands that are going to play in Terrastock, except for ghost and Tom Rapp, and sonic youth of course. Anyway I' m very excited the idea of listening to many bands from all over the world

Oretta:..and playing with Tanakh on the same stage! It's great for us. It's the second time for me in the US and when I was in S.Francisco last time in 2000 I would have never thought to come again to play drums!

Viola: Yes, I agree with Oretta. I have a classical education for music but I have always listened to many kinds of music (rock, jazz,   trip-hop, electronic, pop,...) so I'm very happy to play in a rock band now.

MC: Your list of current and past band members and all their associated projects makes an impressive list in my eyes for two reasons.  Firstly a lot of these folks are world famous and amazing and the roots of their various projects are quite varied from Zorn to Ravi Shankar to the Dirty 3, Palace and GWAR.  This says a lot about your music, it's caliber and influences.  Secondly because I know quite a few of these folks from living in Virginia and they are very special and dear to me.  For instance Phil Murphy and Paul Watson will be playing in our studio for the Monkeyclaus Studio Grand Opening Gala as Them Against Them.  Jesse, do you feel as if you are constantly guiding this project or more participating as it morphs and grows?

Jesse: Oh, your gonna have a hell of a show then, Phil and Watty are amazing, is Brian Jones playing with them? He is a beast on the drums, I love that guy, he is so in the pocket, but it is a pocket on some sort of run-way fashion show for another planet, and Phil and Watty, god don't get me started, those guys are genius. I am convinced that Phil Murphy can play every instrument in the world better than I can tie my shoes, and Paul, well it is Paul Watson, need I say more, that guy is an unsung legend.

As far as do I feel as if I am constantly guiding this project or more participating as it morphs and grows, is a tough question, but it goes back to the rider and the ridden idea for me. For some reason I have always been the guy who says ok we are gonna do this, and the others go with it, I have no idea why, they are all so much better than me, but maybe just cause I am dreamer and a believer, and it is nice to be ridden at the start, but after eh music starts it changes, I turn from the rider to the ridden, and what a lovely feeling that is. I think I guide the band in the practical side, just getting the ball in motion every time, creating context and background and then I am just a participator, until the music forms to a certain point and then I can control myself I just jump on top of that huge wave and ride it where it takes me singing my heart out or beating on a table, or just rolling a round on the ground out of control. I don't know if that makes any sense at all, but I am sure you know that experience where you lose yourself into a community and in that you find your true voice as an individual, in that way I think it is truly like the real heart of all religions.

MC: Jesse...Tell us some about living in Italy?  Was it easy to start a life there?  Was it difficult to connect with the right musicians to continue your project? (As far as time goes.... obviously you were able to, but how long did that take?)

Jesse: Italy is amazing and frustrating. For me I can sum up my view of Italy in that it is ridiculously beautiful and beautifully ridiculous. It wasn't easy to start my life there, I knew NO ONE, but I have to thank god, that doors just seemed to open up one after another, however slowly they opened, they did open. I was so lucky to have meet Umberto, it was truly fate. I was about to be thrown out on the street at my first flat and I found this apartment at the last minute with this guy, who turned out to be not only one of my best friends but a truly awesome musician who played in such a way that jumped me to that out of body feeling within a few notes of his dirty guitar. After that we started writing songs together, but in a really relaxed way, one of us would be in the kitchen riffing on something and the other would stumble in sleepy-eyed for a midnight snack or something hear the song that was trying to get out, and invariably the mid-night-snacker would grab another guitar and we would wrestle the songs out in a matter of minutes. We wrote so many songs in that way that never made it Ardent Fevers just cause we never thought to record them before falling back to sleep, but a good number of the songs on Ardent Fevers were born in just that manner. After Ardent Fevers we just bumped into Oretta, Viola, and Matteo in this just happen to meet kind of way, and it worked beautifully. It is really hard to make your way in Italy, but that is said with the go-get-'em American attitude in mind, if you just relax have a coffee and a chat, things just work themselves out. If you try to make things happen you will drown, just trying to post a package can take you all day, but if you go with the flow it is a beautiful ride.

MC: Umberto did you see a decidedly different approach to music from Jesse as having an American background or is music simply a universal language?

Umberto: Music as universal language.. I think it was Hegel who sad that the highest form of art is music.. Indicating the fact of its abstractness. According to this, Wagner started to compose more symphonies! Anyway. getting to the point, I saw a sea of differences, not only practical, but even more, cultural. Jesse is wonderfully forged with a strong sense of doing, believing, and resolving problems. I come from the country called “maybe tomorrow”. The real big difference is, that in Italy you have a lack of infrastructures and lack of interest in music like ours, or anything that is not part of the mainstream monster. It's not promoted by local music industries. Ergo sum, it is difficult to sell and make even a meager living with music like ours, and this and other Italian obstacles endangers maintaining that wonderful kind of energy which Jesse has, and so why not go with that the US can so freely give, a true drive for new sound and fresh music! In this context there is no such thing as an energy crisis for US thank god, we could learn something from that in or all too stringent conservation of all types of energy.

MC: How do you two compare American politics to Italian?  Both nations seem to be run by heavy-handed leaders who are largely unpopular with a huge cross section of their public?

Umberto: Watch the documentary “Citizen Berlusconi”; I think it's made by CBS. It’s kind of enlightening to what we have in front of us. A world led by slogans and symbols, glued to what so ever cause, and forced to swallow it throw media. Of course so very controlled. Don't criticize, it's unpatriotic, it smells of communism!! A crucial thing for tomorrow; people must learn how to use media, learn to read between the lines, and try to help evoke some form of ethics for media. In Italy, we must hope for a much more severe laws on conflicts of interest. Which is the real Italian anomaly, incarnated by Berlusconi. The great ideologies are gone; we are orphans of them transformed into an audience. Maybe that's one of the reasons why we see that cross sections of public.

Oretta: fortunately in Italy we just had to vote for new government and the left coalition won. It was not a great victory (only for some thousands of votes!) but it's for sure a signal that people want a change.

I hope Berlusconi's political influence and most of his entire cultural model so individualistic is definitely fading out. It's important people will get again involved and interesting in participating to social and political life!

As a musician I hope much more resource will be invested in musical events.

Jesse: for me they are quite the same except with a better sense of community in Italy, I mean it is ridiculously beautiful and beautifully ridiculous, in that they have in their parliament a transsexual, a porn star, the daughter of a dictator, a recently made ex-president who owns almost every TV station, newspaper, and the biggest soccer team, and uses them blatantly to propel his position and personality and nationally claims that anyone who doesn’t vote for him is an idiot, but then again the beauty of it is that their government is set up in such a way....well for example it is set up like this, say you had voted for Nader in the Gore Vs. Bush election, in the US a vote for Nader was a vote for Bush, ergo the reason Bush financed him and did debates with him etc. well in Italy a vote for Nader is a vote for the Democratic side and the majority of the democratic side is put into power, so in Italy you could have voted for Nader and given voice to you desire for change, for green-stuff and they would have combined that percentage together with Gore's percentage, the guy with the most is the skipper and the other the first mate, instead of our American black and white, in Italy it is all about the grey.

MC: Final question....If you were to curate a day at a festival like All Tomorrow's Parties who would you invite?  Let's say you have 8 choices.......

Jesse: tough one there can I have 800 instead, there are so many people that deserve the exposure a festival like that brings, but they can't even get a review, I would put all of them on, but let's see how about what I would put on this morning and only people who still are cause my biggest loves are often no more, and cause it will definitely change by lunch time:

Citizen Cope
Baxter Dury
Hefner
Chris Lee
M.Ward
Micheal Miller
Mark Hollis
Mojave 3

MC: Thanks so much everyone.  Check out Tanakh live if you get the chance....And their albums too.

04/21-23/2006  TERRASTOCK 6  Providence, RI w/GHOST & others
04/24/2006  CAKE SHOP  NYC, NY w/CHRIS LEO & the Vague Angels, & Bulgaria
04/25/2006  In Studio
04/26/2006  PA's Lounge, Sommerville, MA w/Saint Joan (UK)
04/27/2006 Mezzanotte Lounge Syracuse, NY
w/Ashley Cox & Receptive Records + Belly Dancing
04/27/2006  Live on CHRY105.5 FM  radio interview at 8pm
04/28/2006  Mohawk Place Buffalo, NY
04/29/2006  Drake Hotel  Toronto Canada w/Easily Amused
04/30/2006  Big Car Indianapolis, IN
w/ Good Stuff House, Kamikaze Hearts, Sea Krowns, Kelli Shay Hicks
05/01/2006  Day off to hang with the Fam.
05/02/2006  Lager House   Detroit, MI
05/02/2006  WNUR Live Radio Show in Chicago at 4pm
05/03/2006  THE EMPTY BOTTLE  Chicago, IL w/The Good Stuff House, Number None
05/04/2006  Land Lock Bloomington, IN w/Rooster
05/04/2006  Live Radio show WMUL 88.1 FM in Huntington
05/05/2006  Huntington Youth Art & Music Huntington, WV
05/06/2006  The Velvet Lounge    Washington, DC
Live Radio Show in NYC
05/07/2006   KNITTING FACTORY NYC, NY
w/White Hassle's Marcellus Hall, The Vague Angels, & Clay McLeod Chapman

http://www.whoneedsradio.com/" http://www.whoneedsradio.com/    link to this site for a free download from Tanakh

http://www.myspace.com/jessepoetanakh for mp3's and links to other reviews and interviews etc...

Monkeyclaus has grown so much from working with Alex. More than a few nights turned into mornings as Speed of Light took flight. This 19 minute feature dives into Alex's artistry. Witness his creative process. Alex is a much-loved member of Monkeyclaus. Enjoy this preview of his album Speed of Light, available for purchase on April 18th, 2006 at alexschein.com.

Speed of Light is written, performed, and produced by Alex Schein. This podcast is brought to you by Alex and monkeyclaus. Peace to the One.

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