The Emay, Karen & The Kids EP is a set of beats created by producer Emay, made from samples from the Where The Wild Things Are movie soundtrack. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do the cover art. Beats, Karen O, Maurice Sendak... You can't go wrong. Link to the download and a sample track below.
Download: ♪ Emay - Emay, Karen O & The Kids
This is artwork I created for Cold Legistics' beat album Northern Star. I struggled a bit finishing this, not being happy with the results until I made a lot of adjustments. In the end I'm pretty happy with it. You can download a track from the album over at Potholes In My Blog.
Download: ♪ CoverCast #5: WAVE
It's been a while since my last CoverCast, but I finally put something together this week. Partly inspired by the new Shafiq Husayn album, this is a selection of future soul/funk tracks. I hope you enjoy! Click the cover or link to download.
1. Sonar Kollektiv Orchester - Ain't No Dream
2. Electric Wire Hustle - Perception
3. Ta'Raach - Catch My Breath (World) (Featuring J Mitchell)
4. Shafiq Husayn - Dust & Kisses (Featuring Noni Limar)
5. Eric Lau - I Don't Do It To (Featuring Tawiah)
6. Dwele - Workin' On It
7. Platinum Pied Pipers - Pigeon Hole
8. The Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Can I Get You Hi
9. Dam-Funk - (My Funk Goes) On & On
10. Muhsinah - NetKnot
11. The Foreign Exchange - Take Off The Blues (Featuring Darien Brockington)
12. Robert Glasper - Butterfly
For some reason I decided to redesign my music-focused website. I'm glad I did because it's a vast improvement over the original, I think. I better-organized the music pages, improved the video page and reorganized the blog. I've also been trying to record more stuff lately, so hopefully I'll have some new beats up at some point.
Also, another video I hadn't posted yet...
The first ever Bone Burnisher "music video", shot on my Blackberry. Really just an excuse to post my music on YouTube! Heh. All of my "albums" are now available for download on the music page, by the way.
UPDATE: Another video with a beat I made yesterday.
Update: Another one.
Download: ♪ CoverCast #4: 9/6
As I mentioned on The Cover Up, my job's been a little stressful recently. So this week I put together a mix of tracks that are good for keeping me sane during my daily 9 to 6. The impressive Astrud Gilberto edit by Shigeto comes from a free EP download available at the ISO50 blog. I've also used a track from Nicolay's fantastic new album, Shibuya: City Lights Vol. 2, released this week. Now get back to work.
1. Herb Pihofer - Hail Ceasar
2. Jeff Parker - Beanstalk
3. Koushik - Coolin’ (Instrumental)
4. Jackson Conti - São Paulo Nights
5. Astrud Gilberto - Berimbau (Shigeto Edit)
6. Triorganico - Correndo
7. Nicolay - Omotesando
8. 9dw - Thinking Makes A Mistake
9. Savath & Savalas - Pavo Real
10. Quantic & His Combo Barbaro - Undelivered Letter
11. Quarteto Novo - Síntese
12. Cut Chemist - Spoon
13. Samon Kawamura - Out-Take 0810-012
14. Bibio - All The Flowers
15. Tortoise - Charteroak Foundation
16. Toumani Diabaté - Elyne Road
Download: ♪ CoverCast #3: Three
Unfortunately, I didn't make many Cover Up posts this week. But I did put together a new CoverCast. This week I wanted to share some great electronic music and a touch of instrumental hip-hop. Some old, some new, some sort of new. Thanks to Ed for sharing the Joy Orbison track. It's crazy. Everyone loves dubstep these days, right?
1. Phaseone - Marty & Sonietta
2. MONO/POLY - The George Machine
3. The Clonious - Emora
4. Daedelus - Get Off Your HiHats
5. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
6. Clark - Mercy Sines
7. Zomby - One Foot Ahead Of The Other
8. Dr. Who Dat? - Laws of Clover
9. Squarepusher - Greenways Trajectory
10. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technopolis
11. Bumps - Tryplmeade Gorsmatch
12. Teebs - Untitled
13. Thavius Beck - Under Pressure
14. Ceephax - Hull Pressure
15. Plug - Brave Lick
16. Hudson Mohawke - Rising 5
17. Gonja Sufi - Ancestors
18. Ras G - Incoming
19. Stevo - Milky Way Driver
20. 00Genesis - Geomancer
Download: ♪ CoverCast #2: Jazz Epic
Very soon after I put together the first CoverCast, I decided to pull out some of my favorite records and stay up until 5 AM to create an epic 45 minute mix of loud, soul-churning jazz-fusion. This is the end product. The plan was to make a non-stop blend of heavy jazz-rock, like tracks two through five. But I decided to spread it out a bit, eventually splitting the mix into movements (ala the epic fusion suites of yore) with appropriately epic titles (I've never heard the word "PEREGRINATION" before). Fusion was a staple of my music diet in high school and on, so I hope you enjoy it. I know I did... Click the link or covers to downloat the zip file, which includes the tracklist.
Intro
1. Laurence Welk & Orchestra - Moon River / Soundcraftsman - Instructional Test Record
Movement I : The Vivication
2. Tony Williams - Some Hip Drum Sh!t
3. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Vital Transformation
4. Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean, Pt. 2
5. Al Di Meola - Morning Fire
Movement II : The Peregrination
6. Weather Report - Scarlet Woman / Trazana Beverley - No Assistance
7. Airto Moreira - Wake Up Song
8. Larry Corryell & The Eleventh House - Yin
9. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds / Arthur Ashe - Learn Tennis
10. Tony Williams - This Night This Song
Movement III : The Ascension
11. McCoy Tyner - Fly With The Wind
12. Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes (You Can Fly)
13. Ashok Ingle - Raga Darbari / Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane - Guru Sri Chinmoy Aphorism
Movement IV : The Resurrection
14. Stanley Clarke - Life Is Just A Game
Download: ♪ CoverCast #1: G4G4
Today I'm posting G4G4, the first ever mixtape (I don't want to call it a podcast) for my Cover Up blog. I've wanted to create a mix for a while, so I pulled together some of my favorite tracks and artists from this year to see what I could come up with. It's mostly a selection of hip-hop and electronic music. The track list is below and you can click the covers to download. I plan on doing some more mixes later. For the front and back cover I used photos I took at the Freer & Sackler Galleries in D.C. (I put a slideshow below for fun). I hope you guys listen and enjoy.
1. Triorganico - Balloons
2. Blu - Amnesia
3. Prefuse 73 - Regalo
4. Mabanua - Liquid
5. Misel Quitno - Pull It Down Somewhen
6. ZKPRZ - Phantasmagoria
7. Flying Lotus - Parisian Goldfish (Take Remix)
8. Harmonic 313 - Dirtbox
9. Willie Isz - Shine
10. Samon Kawamura - cp2sk (Featuring Christian Prommer)
11. J Dilla - Spacecowboy vs. Bobble Head
12. CO$$ - Be Like You (Featuring Terem)
13. Exile - Stay Tuned (Here)
14. Dak - fortheSUN
15. The Gaslamp Killer - Baiafro
16. Luke Vibert - Computer Complex
17. Squarepusher - Seb-1.02
18. 9DW - Begin To Sing For Appetite
Today Potholes in My Blog released a mixtape of exclusive and unreleased hip-hop tracks mixed by DJ Traumatix. I was asked to do the cover art, which I think turned out pretty well. The first cover I did is at the bottom, but we decided to go with something simpler and more readable, which is the cover at the top. You can download the mix here or below.
Trasmitting Live Volume One
I've spent some time creating new music. I'm excited about "URSA.3", which is the second track I've done looping my own drumming and the first time I've been happy with the way it sounds. I also didn't use any samples, which I think is a first. If you listen to it I recommend using nice headphones! "Kalimba" is another interesting track, recording my kalimba through my SP-404 and layering it.
I've made a second website for myself, meant more specifically for my music. It's accompanied by another blog that will include posts about music, art, culture and whatever else inspires me.
The site looks a little off in Internet Explorer, but it should look fine in other browsers. Not much new music up yet, but hopefully I can sit down and concentrate on making some new stuff soon... Check it out! Tell me what you think! And don't forget The Cover Up and Cheesewich.
I haven't made much music lately. Here's two experiments. Nothing spectacular. Last.fm took the embed function away from album tracks. Very sad. Just click the titles to get to the MP3s.
Bone Burnisher - Isaac
Bone Burnisher - URSA #1
My friend Kyle and his friend Marcus made some Youtube videos rapping and singing over my beats. Never imagined my stuff with vocals over top!
Bone Burnisher – Mary
This is a beat I made today using some vocals that my friend Mykola in Ukraine sent to me. He's singing. The image is one of my sketches 'remixed' by Mykola.
Bone Burnisher – Chapter Two
I made this track last week. I quite like it.
Bone Burnisher – Relocation
Bone Burnisher – Relocation
New track with a touch of MicroKorg. The snare drum is a bit loud...
Edit: I fixed the volumes and added some more effects.
Yes, I made another blog. It's an extension of The Cover Up called The Cover Down, essentially for when I don't feel like writing. Just a constant stream of good album cover art that I happen to come across. Since I finally got my scanner to work with my new computer, I'll also be scanning in some album covers from my collection.
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