Day 3 & 4

Day 3. we finsihed bass and synth stuff followed by a full day of the most incredible guest musicians on bass clarinet, tenor sax, cello and trumpet. it was amazing to watch our visions for these songs come to life and we still have more recording to go.

There was a day 4 to recording and it flew by..Guitars were blasting all day followed by Nathan doing an inspired one off take on a mini vibraphone for one of the new songs. The record is 95% recorded and sounds better than we could have imagined. We will be putting the finishing touches on it in a few weeks.eventually I will get some pictures posted!

Recording Day 2

Day 2 recording was a long one...10+ hours..drums,keys,synths & loops are all done and one track of bass..we also managed to watch ghostbusters II !!! & play around with eno's oblique stratagies cards for some album art ideas. However we still have yet to come up with a name for this album>>>>>Our good friend Noah stopped by and took some video footage also so some of that may surface sooner or later....time for shut eye and then straight back to the studio.

Recording Day 1

Day one of recording was not with out minor mishaps..Chris' bass amp died before we even made it to the session. Lucky for us Ben from All Tiny Creatures saved the day and got us a loaner for the weekend. So things are back on track!!. We have the drums all mic'd up and sounding good after an hour of listening to Nathan hit his snare as we moved mic's around. One song of drum tracks is complete. We were done a little after midnight. We are all meeting up right now to head back in for a full day of Recording.
Ross

Recording..

We are going into the studio next thursday to start work on our new album..we are super excited and will be sharing pics and video with you along the way..

Poster......................

the new poster arrived in the mail today and it is crazy..check it out..it will be available at summerfest..





19×25"
6-colors
by Nick & Nadine
June, 2009

Here is what they had to say about the process...

Canyons of Static are a West Bend, Wisconsin based instrumental band who play epic, melody drenched rock. This posters offered a pretty unique challenge, in that the band only wanted their name listed on the poster, no show dates, etc. That’s right, just a straight up band poster. We thought it was a great idea and still can’t believe more folks aren’t doing this! The print started with a basic structure. The bottom 2/3rds of the print was filled with repeating 5 inch squares. The squares where filled with fine textures and a photograph that Nadine took in my hometown, Dyersburg, Tennessee. Once the structure was established, we broke away from the system, adding large blocks of texture and some unexpected colors. The end result is a massive cluster of structure and disharmony.

Poster Coming Soon..

We are working with Chicago artists Nick Butcher & Nadine Nakanishi of Sonnenzimmer. They will be designing and screen printing a Canyons of Static poster that will be amazing. They have done posters for great bands like Throbbing Gristle, A hawk and a hacksaw, silver jews, wolf eyes and many more....
check out examples of their work at http://sonnenzimmer.com/store/
and check out this video of them talking about their work at http://www.hangingbyashoestring.com/index.html

Sonnenzimmer: the shoestring portrait from dsinker on Vimeo.

Summerfest 2009

We will be at Summerfest again this year on Saturday June 27th at 4:30pm at the Cascio Groove Garage and we will be playing all new songs and we should have new t-shirts and possibly a poster if it is done in time(more on that to come)>>>>>>>>