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So I'm pretty sure no one reads my blog but I'm going to make an entry anyway.  I've finished recording my first studio album, and it's available currently through Bandcamp.  In 1-2 weeks from this post, it will be available on Audio CD as well as digitally through Spotify, iTunes and Amazon MP3.  The Bandcamp player is below.  Thanks, and I hope you enjoy it!

squelch

So this is a music project that I've been working on with my good friend Aaron for a long time now. I will be on drums and he will be on bass. The songs are originals that Aaron has been writing. We're looking for a 3rd member, possibly keys or guitar.

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spaceship in the city


walk away

Winchester Ear Plugs

I've begun the process of digging through the 60GB of audio data from my old studio computer. I stumbled across this little gem. It is the product of much whiskey. Unfortunately, in my inebriated state, I set the gain on the snare mic way too high which resulted in many, many clips. I manually edited most of them out and tried to level out the recording a little bit so it's listenable. Enjoy.

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freedom now

This is a song that I wrote recently. It's dedicated to the people of the Middle East, Japan and places all over the world where people suffer from adversity.

I'm Back

For real this time, I swear! Anyway, a lot has happened recently. I moved to Boston recently, and there has been a lot of driving and shuffling things around but I'm finally just about settled in. I've moved the whole studio out of CT and while I don't have everything with me here at the apartment, I still have decent access to it. I've been working on a lot of different things. Right now I am bouncing some footage that I took of Valley FEAST part 2 up in Northampton. I'm about halfway through it and will be posting it all up later tonight. My portable recording setup is almost where I want it to be. For now though, I'm just excited to be able to go places and make some decent recordings. I'll also be posting a few other things that I have been working on, hopefully this weekend. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, here's an older video that I neglected to post.

/r/musicmakers songwriting competition

This is a piece I wrote for a small songwriting competition on http://www.reddit.com/r/musicmakers. The only rule is that the chord progression Dm, C, G has to be used somewhere in the song.

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Love, American Style

The following is a music video I made with my new band. Most of the recording is live, with vocal edits and one small guitar edit.

Used in the live recording:
1x AKG D112 on kick drum
1x Shure SM57 on snare drum
2x MXL 993 as drum overheads
1x Sennheiser MD 421 on Mesa Boogie 50 Caliber thru Kustom 2x10
1x Shure SM57 on Fender Princeton Reverb
1x Shure Beta 52 on Fender Bassman
1x Shure SM7 on vocals

Love, American Style is:
Kari Bunn - Vocals / Guitar
Keith Wood - Guitar
Aaron DesLonde - Bass
Carey Gumaer - Drums