“Mana by Time Columns is a bizarre, gutsy, beautiful and downright masterfully crafted album…that absolutely shines amidst a sea of unsuccessful underground post-rock, avant-garde and experimental music” -The Silver Tounge Online
Just got the photos of our vinyls from our Denmark label, Subsuburban! You can soon get “Mana” as a double LP with music on sides A-C, and an original etching on side D! Vinyl is all printed in colored dark chestnut. Mad props to Subsuburban for producing such a top notch LP for us!!
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wesmeadows asked: hey! got a track you'd want to add to a tumblr compilation?
Yeah we are interested! Can you email us details? Timecolumns@gmail.com
makeshiiiftswahili asked: is there anywhere on the interwebs where you explain your gear and what you loop with? I feel like a read something like this a couple years ago in a comment somewhere. Idk... but I'm like, super interested! <3
We don’t have anywhere up until NOW!
We use a combination of looping with two Gibson Echoplex units and live midi sampling with Ableton Live. We use midi to sync up all the tempos, and Kenny has a footswitch connected to Ableton that he can trigger additional guitar lines, loops, samples, etc that are all synced to the correct tempo. He routes his loops and samples to a designated loop amp, behind my drum set. Other samples he triggers are routed out to the PA system, and his live guitar playing is routed through two amps.
With my stuff by the drum set I use a Boss RC50 looper and an Akai sampler hooked up to my Ableton session. Those samples are not midi synced are all set up in ways that don’t need to sync perfectly with any tempo. As far as my looping, the RC50 doesn’t midi slave well to anything, so I assign blank WAV loops to certain banks for certain songs, and that allows my loops to sync perfectly with everything else! I route all my samples out to the PA system and my live synths/guitar come out of my bass amp, which doubles as the loop amp mentioned before.
So that’s how we run things as of now, but it will probably evolve further as things progress!
Here we are with Valerian Swing and Tetra, the beagle pup we rescued from Arkansas where she was abandoned at a gas station. Got her home safe and she’s doing great! Tell tale sign of a good tour.
Marquis at Kobo in Columbus OH. Definitely coming back here!
LIVE TOUR VIDEO #2: SXSW!
Here we are performing “Summer” at the Molotov Lounge for the Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie showcase at SXSW 2012! Enjoy!
Tour photo: Label mates! Us with Valerian Swing (Italian label mates on Subsuburban) and Old Worlds (Columbus band on our German label, Oxide Tones) in Columbus, morning after the show at Kobo! Couldn’t ask for a better musical family!
Tour Photo: Tyrone, PA. Here we are with our boys Valerian Swing and some of the folks from We Live in NY and LA Art Space!
LIVE TOUR VIDEO #1:
“Salvo” performed in Nashville TN just a couple days ago! More tour videos will be posted in the coming days, including one from SXSW! Enjoy and spread it around!
