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City: olympia/portland
Country: US
Signup Date: 8/28/2005

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Thursday, November 05, 2009 

Current mood:  amorous
Category: Music
we finally have the CD version of Invisible River Invisible River for sale on the internet!  Yay. It is $10 plus shipping, and features Andrew Dorsett (LAKE), Evan Hashi (Twig Palace, Hobby Hobby) and Markly Morrison (LAKE) backing up Ben Kamen on a wild versions of songs new and old, including old faves like "Did I Choose?" and a freaky-drone-out cover of Skeletons classic Git-ender "Do You Feel Any Better?"  Recorded in the Spring of 02009 in our old house called Antarctica, on the Westside of Olympia. 

Check out "Wait and See" if you want to hear a track first, and listen out for the cascading cupcake* guitar solo!



    
$10 + shipping

*cupcake is another name for Andrew.  He's cute!
Currently listening:
Zebra
By Karl Blau
Release date: 2009-10-06
Thursday, July 09, 2009 
HEY - there's a show coming up a week from today with TINY VIPERS at the olympia all ages space, NORTHERN.  it will be fun.  and the new record should be available!

ALSO _ tour is coming soon!  we have a bunch of dates, and a bunch still trying to get together (dates in bold!)  !  let us know if you have a living room and enthusiasm, we can probably play at your house!


aug 5 - olympia ABC house
aug 6 - tacoma new frontier
aug 7 - seattle!!
aug 8 - portland!!
aug 9 - ashland or redding or eureka or arcata
aug 10 - nevada city/ grass valley / bay area?
aug 11 - sacramento
aug 12 - SF
aug 13 - oakland ABCo with TuneYards and Quinn
aug 14 - RENO market 
aug 15 - santa cruz or davis
aug 16 - santa cruz or somewhere on the coast? 
aug 17 - santa barbara house show with Tender Forever
aug 18 - los angeles - Juanita's Bar
aug 20 - santa fe - meow wolf w. john courage
aug 21 - dallas house show
aug 22 - austin - annie st arts collective
aug 23 - new orleans
aug 25 - nashville or knoxville
aug 26 - asheville or knoxville
aug 27 - chapel hill - nightlight with Kah Isbin
aug 28 - greensboro
aug 29 - charlottesville - tea bazaar
aug 30 - new york i think
aug 31 - upstate
sept 1 - bennington college
sept 2 - providence
sept 3 - boston
sept 4 - boston campfire festival
sept 5 - brooklyn - sycamore
sept 6 - oberlin college w/ desolation wilderness
sept 8 - akron/canton/
sept 9 - bloomington with vollmar
sept 10 - chicago
sept 11 - chicago house show
sept 12 - minneapolis or iowa
sept 13 - iowa 
sept 14 - kansas city or thereabouts
sept 15 - denver / boulder
sept 16 - provo / slc
sept 17 - boise
sept 18 - spokane
sept 19 - olympia homecoming
Currently listening:
Nature's Got Away
By Karl Blau
Release date: 2008-09-23
Thursday, June 25, 2009 

Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
this saturday at northern!  and we'll have a brand new CASSINGLE from BROWN INTERIOUR MUSIC featuring two wild(ly different) versions of "hundreds of times over."

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 

Category: Music

we've changed our name!

the project formerly known as "ben kamen" is now known as "invisible river."

but we are still the same, the same and always changing.  that is, we : me (ben) and it (everything).

working on a record now with the band formerly known as the hot new ringtones.  

have a nice day!

-- ben kamen 


Currently reading:
Love in the Time of Cholera
By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thursday, April 30, 2009 


Dana Jewell (Olympia) - http://www.myspace.com/danajewell
Ben Kamen (Olympia) - http://www.myspace.com/anonymousmonk
TBA (Portland/New York) - http://www.myspace.com/liketimebackwards
Sarah Hammond - http://www.myspace.com/sarahhammondmusic

@ New Crompton, April 30th at 7:30 pm
4711 12th Ave NE in the U-District.

$3-5 donation for out of town bands

No drinking at our shows, please, thanks.

Friday, March 27, 2009 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
Eleanor Murray & I will be playing shows across the United States in August-September. We are just starting to plan these shows..... If you are someone who'd like to help us/book a show/play with us, please get in touch ::

info@anonymousmonk.com

MANY HEARTS> BEN


Currently listening:
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
By Julie Doiron
Release date: 2009-03-10
Monday, February 23, 2009 

Category: Music
Hey friends!

Our spring calendar & compilation has finally hatched!

We asked 12 of our amazing songwriter friends to write a song for each month of the year and designed a March-March poster-sized calendar to go with it.... We are really excited about the outcome! Please check out our website and listen to Karl Blau's song for August and Twig Palace's December songs.

http://www.anonymousmonk.com/calendar.html

tracklist::
1. Viking Moses - March
2. Ben Kamen - April
3. Spenking - Mayday
4. Golden Ghost - June
5. Ashley Eriksson - Juli
6. Karl Blau - Arco Iris Arledadore de la Luna
7. Paleo - Month #9 (Shining the Moon)
8. Ruth Allison - Apples Pies & Apple Juice
9. Eleanor Murray - November
10. Twig Palace - December
11. Karrie Hopper - New Days
12. Eli Moore - February

Sunday, January 18, 2009 
"dreams" EP is now available as a full-sized CD in a screen-printed case. mmmmmm.

you can purchase it at my other blog, nearly identical, but without the myspace limitations on links....
benkamen.blogspot.com

Currently listening:
Devotion
By Beach House
Release date: 2008-02-26
Thursday, December 04, 2008 
two things!

friday i'll be playing at the cockpit in seattle! it is an acoustic show along with my friends black tail dear and polka dot dot!

the address is:
910 1/2 e. pike st. on the corner of pike and broadway, down the alley behind the shell station.

the show will be broadcast live! on hollowearthradio.com!

so even if you live in a far away land, you can be there in spirit!

ALSO on saturday I will be at the HEALTHY TIMES FUN CLUB for the Hollow Earth Radio local label record sale, with various wares from the anonymous monk label. I will have a new re-issued, normal sized CD version of "dreams" for sale as well as Eleanor Murray's record, for cedar.


Currently listening:
Lost Wisdom
By Mount Eerie
Release date: 2008-10-07
Thursday, November 27, 2008 

Category: Music
eleanor + i sing at the finger complex!

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thanks to timefighters.org for posting this video!