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Tuesday, June 23, 2009 

Current mood:  inspired
Category: Music
This is a very interesting article about artists options in the changing music industry. Thanks David Byrne.

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David Byrne's Survival Strategies For Emerging Artists - And Megastars

-Jonny
3:29 PM 
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 

Category: Music
There are 30 copies of these. Get one while you can.
$5

track listing:
a raw open core
simple sonic waves
wide eyed broken hearted
spinning our cocoons
the clock stops
2:17 AM 
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 

Category: Music
8 songs. 27 handmade copies. the bobbin and radio bean are the only place you can get them other than from me. hope you all have a blast of a summer.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music
There may be a couple copies left at Radio Bean or Pure Pop.  I'm all out of the original run.  Enjoy the sounds or use them as coasters.  
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 
AQUADORA,INTO LIGHT IN THE TRACKS



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(Unrecords, CD)

Aquadora is the pseudonym of a Burlington musician known simply as Jonny. His sci-fi, lo-fi home recordings occasionally make their way into the world in EP form; Into Light in the Tracks represents his most recent efforts. While by no means perfect, the disc showcases an iconoclastic artist whose creations are tough to define in conventional terms.

Like most lo-fi acts, Aquadora's music is more than a little rough around the edges. Initially recorded on a four-track, Into Light was eventually completed using computer music software. This duct-tape-to-digital approach has resulted in a swarm of fuzz, echo and raw emotion that doesn't sound like anything else out there.

Aquadora's strengths lie in his ability to coax density out of spare guitar, drums and bass arrangements. He prefers a soporific haze to cleanly delineated riffs and rhythms; overall, his disc plays like a subliminal call to cold-medicine abuse.

Opener "A Raw Open Core" is a mournful number built around a simple, chordal bass line. Swirls of delayed guitars drift peripherally as Jonny coos his busted-up lullaby. The tune is as gut-wrenchingly vulnerable as its title suggests: a frail, indie-rock psalm.

"Simple Sonic Waves" begins with a noisy U2-esque guitar figure, backed up by a ragged drum beat and subsonic bass line. With so many effects, however, it's tough to tell what Jonny's singing about. Judging from the rest of the tracks, it's probably something cosmic, sentimental or both.

Although the clamoring guitar distortion on "Wide Eyed Broken Hearted" is enveloping, Jonny's vocals leave something to be desired. Pouring himself into the performance with obvious abandon, he constantly sings out of his range. The result is quasi-melodic bleating that undermines an otherwise decent rocker.
"Spinning Our Cocoons" contains what might be my favorite opening lines in recent memory. "I dropped out of college and took a lot of drugs," Jonny melodiously mumbles. "I had to escape the zoo of Christian fear I was born into." Word.

"Home/None" is a delirious little number that sounds a bit like HUsker DU in zero gravity, while closing track "The Clock Stops" makes good use of acoustic guitar and ambient sounds. It's tough to tell who will get the most out of Into Light in the Tracks -- fans of shoegazer rock or lo-fi enthusiasts. One thing's for sure: Aquadora's sprawling, heartfelt handiwork is in a class of its own.

CASEY REA
4:44 AM 
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 
AQUADORA
Into Light in the Tracks
2005 Unrecords
www.aquadora.com

Style: Psychedelic Pop

As delayed, wholly manipulated guitar tones filter through simple and poignant vocal lines, Aquadora immediately and wholeheartedly displays his extraordinary exploratory idealism. While hints of Radiohead and Beck seem to inform his song construction, it's the games and toys that alter the tunes into sonic sculptures and exercises in pushing beyond the mundane, flitting playfully in front of your third eye. British pop informs the sound, from the overdriven snare tones to the lanky lead guitar lines. But Jonny, under his Aquadora moniker, use the singular vision of the solo artist to split the rock 'n' roll formula wide open, spilling its hallucinatory guts all over your ears.
The pained musing of the opening track, "A Raw Open Core," plays with layers of tone more than a rhythmic drive. But the beat bursts in with a tasty fill and a solid punch that brings Oasis firmly to mind in the second tune, "Simple Sonic Waves." The guitars scream of the Edge's delayed intensity while the underlying texture is far more manic and aggressive than anything U2 has ever attempted.
The snap of sticks counting off the 4 and the disco hi-hats and distant snare hits augment his kaleidoscopic musings in "Wide Eyed Broken Heart," with the whine of effected guitars sneaking around the corners. But the first line of "Spinning Our Cocoons" may reveal the most prescient information about this artist: "I dropped out of college and took a lot of drugs / I had to escape the zoo of Christian fear I was born into / I had to bleed to find my heart, I had to dream to make it real / I had to lose to learn to die to all my pride." This artist lays his ideals, his history and his artistic soul directly in front of his audience, continually developing ways to communicate his aural vision to anyone who will listen with an open heart. The up-front riffing and drive of "Home-None" continues to show off this man's love of pop music that means something.
But the final track, "The Clock Stops," with Pink Floyd guitar lines and outrageously effected vocal delivery, is the most definitive statement of musical presence and power on this short disc. The octave separation of vocal lines gives a full presence as acoustic guitar tones offer a solid counter point to the droning pad of strings flitting behind the picture. As with all of Aquadora's music, this one pours with honest questions that haunt the thoughtful and spiritual among us. Jonny has a deep and meaningful way of hitting those core emotive elements, those areas of human connection to sound and idea that make music a transcendental medium. The music builds and builds and builds, grinding outrage bouncing off of a clean and tight rock 'n' roll progression, bursting with sound and will before returning to the ground to ask a simple question: "How do you save one moment and make it last a lifetime?"

Tim Thompson
4:37 AM 
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Monday, February 06, 2006 

Category: Music
I am in a new band called Magic Sparkle. Jess Magic and I have been playing together for 7 months now and we've got quite a few shows coming up in the next while. My focus for the next few months will be on Magic Sparkle, so if you'd like to keep up to date on the project, be our friend http://www.myspace.com/magicsparklerocks

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Birthed during Cancer 2005, this pulpy Burlington based duo has been channeling their unique blend of dual vocals, electric bass, and acoustic drumset rock through a montage of analog effects directly into raw, sticky melodies that feel just as good hummed while walking through snowdrifts as they do blasted through a stereo at full volume while drinking bloody marys on the cliffs of a three day bender. Their choice of simple instrumentation has kept their danceable lo-fi rock close to the initial spark that started the project when Jess Magic (ex Miss Monday, ex Courtesy Flesh) and Jonny Sparkle (Aquadora) spontaneously started rocking at a dance party and "were transported to a bright warm fuzzy place by a zoom zoom white balloon alien."

see you there,
jonny
12:27 AM 
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Monday, February 06, 2006 
Aquadora's song, "Simple Sonic Waves," is featured on the compilation "Caring is Knowing." It's a benefit to fight AIDS in support of Vermont Cares. www.vtcares.org Come show your support at the Comp Release Party at 135 Pearl on Feb 10, 2006. You get a free comp just for coming to the show. The Jazz Guys, Swale, Fire the Cannons, Hilla, Will, and Pretty and Nice. 7pm, $7
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Friday, December 23, 2005 

Category: Music
I invested a lot of time and energy into the band "Fire the Cannons" over the last 5 months.  I've recently decided to focus my energy on my pre-existing projects:  Aquadora, Magic Sparkle, and Unrecords.  So if you want to see the original incarnation of Fire the Cannons, do so in the next month.  I'll be playing the January shows, and Feb 3rd will be my last show with them.  Marie and Shawn will continue playing together as far as I know.  I wish them luck with their endeavors.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005 

Category: Music
Unrecords released the "To Brighten From Stereo" compilation last month.  22 tracks of bands from all over the US.  It features:YACHT, Killjoy Confetti, Gal and Lad, The Lou Reeds, Sparkle Causer, Solid Gold, Casa Verde, Dearest, Oxford, Bobby Birdman, The Beeves, Foxtail, Charlemange, Bellafea, Driftless Pony Club, The Shivers, Aquadora, Buffali, If Then Else, Pure Soul, Thornton, Winterlander, Ivan Okay.

check it out at...
http://www.myspace.com/unrecords

get your copy while you can.
4:14 PM 
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