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Koala's new album drops in two days!!!  In the meantime check out this video of us playing in reverse:

Deserted Island 24

Keeping up with my anual birthday traditional of making a list of my favorite 24 albums of all time - here's my list for this year:

1-Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich - 1978)

Documentary (3:08 is where it is about this piece)

   2-Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (Godspeed You! Black Emperor - 2000)

Full Album Stream

   3-A Love Supreme (John Coltrane - 1965)

Full Album Stream

   4 - Midnight Marauders (A Tribe Called Quest - 1993)

Full Album Stream

   5-Tri Repetae (Autechre - 1996)

Key Tracks: Clipper, Rsdio

   6-Bitches Brew (Miles Davis - 1970)

Full Album Stream

   7-Remain in Light (Talking Heads - 1980)

Full Album Stream

   8-In C (Terry Riley - 1964)

Score:

Instructions:

"All performers play from the same page of 53 melodic patterns played in sequence.

Any number of any kind of instruments can play. A group of about 35 is desired if

possible but smaller or larger groups will work. If vocalist(s) join in they can use any

vowel and consonant sounds they like.

Patterns are to be played consecutively with each performer having the freedom to

determine how many times he or she will repeat each pattern before moving on to

the next. There is no fixed rule as to the number of repetitions a pattern may have,

however, since performances normally average between 45 minutes and an hour and

a half, it can be assumed that one would repeat each pattern from somewhere

between 45 seconds and a minute and a half or longer..."

You can read the rest here. 

9. What's Going On (Marvin Gaye - 1971)

Original Detroit Mix of the Full Album

10. Kid A (Radiohead - 2000)

Full Album Stream

11. Donuts (J Dilla - 2006)

Full Album Stream

12. The Next Step (Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2001)

(Unfortunately - there are no longer any good videos on youtube, or tunes on soundcloud from this album and can't illegally upload songs from it here...sorry) 

13. The Lemon of Pink (The Books - 2003)

Take Time:

14. Deep Listening (Pauline Oliveros - 1989)

Opening Track: Lear

15. Loveless (My Bloody Valentine - 1991)

Full Album Stream

16. Revolver (The Beatles - 1966)

Key Tracks: Tomorrow Never Knows, Love to You

17. Mirrored (Battles - 2007)

First Two Tracks: Race In & Atlas

18. Black Up (Shabazz Palaces - 2011)

Full Album Stream

19. The Velvet Underground & Nico (Velvet Underground - 1967) 

Full Album Stream

20. Einstein On the Beach (Philip Glass - 1976)

Trailer

21-Stand (Sly & the Family Stone - 1969) 

Sing a Simple Song

22-Exodus (Bob Marley & the Wailers - 1976)

Opening Track

23. Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (The Pharcyde - 1992)

Full Album Stream

24. Standards (Tortoise - 2001) 

Koala - 2013 Album Promo

The new Koala album will be available to listen to and download on April 2nd 2013 at koalatheband.bandcamp.com

Check out this teaser:
 
Koala - 2013 Album Promo from Koala on Vimeo.

RI House Show

Hey folks,

On the 30th I'll be playing a show at my parent's place in RI.  It'll be my birthday as well as a couple good friends of mine (or close enough to celebrate in Bill's case).  It'll also be my brother's first weekend back from England - so we'll also be celebrating that.  I'll probably start playing around 9:00 PM, and there may be some surprise guests playing as well.  I'll have copies of my EP for sale as well as some other new music to share.  If you're coming up from Boston and want to stay the night it shouldn't be a problem providing you with a couch to crash on - just give me a heads up if that's your plan.  If you need directions or more details feel free to contact me.

Looking forward to hopefully catching you then!

Mike