Check out some new clips at www.youtube.com/thedejas

http://www.youtube.com/thedejas#play/all/uploads-all/2/BWsr62pM1fo

I started writing this song the day after coming home from a long and draining AKB tour back in 2004. I found these old recorded files on my laptop today and re-worked this track into what it is now.  All live takes were recorded directly into the laptop built in mic. .....Thus the cold digital/ambient hissssss.

I remember when writing this feeling the need to be more present and engaged in the process of life rather than lost in the speed and pressures within my projected fantasy of what the future might or might not hold.

 

The DEJAS are a few sessions away from finishing tracking on their new album. Aaron and Callie teamed up with Sean Mcglaughlin at 37ft production for this project. Photos from the sessions are up at www.myspace.com/thedejasmusic
CHEERS to Callie for tracking her first ukulele! The DEJAS were also recently featured in Boston paper "The Dig". You can catch the DEJAS live at Nectars in Burlington VT every Sat in Dec.

Aaron Katz recently brought Moon Minion up to Scott Mohlers studio in Biddeford ME to track their EP. Aaron is producing,playing drums and doing arrangements for the NH based funk/soul band. Check out www.myspace.com/moonminionband to hear live cuts from the bands Dover Brickhouse show. Aaron will be playing drums with the band at upcoming live shows.

Some very exciting news is on the horizon including a feature Aaron Katz interview on N.P.R. ! We will keep you posted as things take shape. Happy Holidays!

awaken from the weight of the world

In this place
all I know
thoughts arise
seeds and ghosts
freedom calls
it's her I want

Oh light award me time to read between the lines
Oh light award me eyes to see between the lines

In this place
ever fly till you touch the bottom,till you touch the silence
seeds and ghosts
chasing sound

The DEJAS have been nominated by the Portsmouth magazines Spotlight on the Arts for best Alternative band. The awards ceremony will be held at the Portsmouth Music Hall Thursday April 17th.

inside call me the savior
enlighten a way

I will find you

this is a journey of discovery the quiet ride into the stream
an uniflated understanding- all there is
a look into our essence reality behind false walls
and peace alone the fountain to drink from
then to become

when the night falls over the scene
lost in reflection I may cry out
it's so clear *

* I am on my way
we are traveling to nowhere and it sounds like an answer
I am on my way
we are surrounded by white walls in the caverns of coal mines(calm minds)

so the man in the mountain looked more like a weed in the sand
get it right it doesn't matter
get it wrong, get the ring
it's just your chemical perception another way to see the same thing
just another way to see the same thing

when the night falls over the scene
found meditation and I may cry out
it's so clear *

what is it that leads me to this afterglow
a million people staring from their seats
torn between the colors black and white
fighting to fulfil unfulfilable appetites

The new Running Red Lights album produced by Aaron Katz is now available. Aaron also played keys and did some co-writing with the New Jersey based rock band. Check out the new RRL tracks at www.myspace.com/redlightsrock.

Aaron will be playing drums for RRL at Hennesy's in Boston on Wed Jan 16 and
at The Cafe On the Corner in Dover NH on Thursday Jan 17th.

The DEJAS album "Solid Ground" is available along with a making of DVD. Callie and Aaron will be playing at Millies in Manchester NH on Sat Jan 19 and at the Red Door in Portsmouth NH. Check out the Mark Goodell mixes at www.myspace.com/thedejasmusic

The Justin Peterson EP is available. The Ep was co-written and produced by Aaron Katz. Justin is out playing with his band "The Rehearsals."

Superfrog is working hard in pre-production. The material is taking shape and their live shows have been slamming!

Aaron is also out with his band. They recently played with keyboard master Mike Effinberger. Aaron and his band play the Stone Church in Newmarket NH on Jan 31st with ROLLA.

so.. I am sitting in my normal window seat at the Cafe On The Corner in Dover sending out e-mails,talking on the phone and listening to music when all of a sudden some hustle starts around me. The room is taken over with press..the police are rushing outside(cheers Spidel).. I am checking out the new mix of the Dejas Dimness of the light when to my left Barack Obama is giving me a direct eye to eye smirk/grin through the window. So I give an uncomfortable Fonzie like thumbs up to him and a smile. The Cafe is filled with press and people looking to talk with Barack. He is a very thin man but you can feel the power he holds.

My friend Freddy now decides to leave me and go visit someone across the room. This immediatly puts a the fear of god in me because Barack is making his way to me and I honestly don't know what to say. I am not sure who I am voting for yet and the most I know of Barack is his stance on Health care and that he knows Oprah.
I plead with Fred to not leave me and to protect me from possible embarrassment but Fed takes off. less than 10 min later Barack comes directly to me (I stand up).. he shakes my hand and asks me if I am a student. I told him I am a musician and he asks if I play in town. I tell him yes and I congratulate him on last nights win... He then tells me he wishes he had some time to listen to music but he is going to be "Kind Of Busy".. I agreed and we shook hands again and he asked for my vote.

Deep breath.. SAFE.. but not so fast.. the media descends on me asking what he said and who I am voting for..etc.. I find myself part of a documentary on his life being takin by a film maker who has been folowing Obama for years all over the world. Good Lord I am all of a sudden whipped into the world of Obama... and I was going to go to the gym.

Barack got an Earl Grey tea and a banana walnut bread.. I saw him give the bread to someone sitting behind him in his SUV(sorry Ralph).. ok thats it.. happy Friday ak