merry chrismas!!!

A very merry track coming to you from Josh mitchell's questionable choir.

Frosty the snowman by sequinsandskeletons

Sunday is for singles Vol. 3

This week our single comes from the supremely talented young Los Angeles composer, Jared Rodriguez (Pomar).

...So sit back, spike your grandma's eggnog, and try to hibernate 'til Christmas. Enjoy.


Only you - Pomar by sequinsandskeletons

NONPROJECTS

Our dear friends at Non Projects have kindly decided to showcase some select compositions by our humble band of outsiders. There will be more collaborative projects with this extraordinarily talented collective in the near future. Stay tuned.

Non Projects is a record label dedicated to the support and discovery of Los Angeles' most innovative artists and composers. Mislaid within an ever-changing and confused recording landscape, Non Projects offers imaginative works of art and sound.

With the aim to showcase each artist's devotion to their love of music and the joy of uncovering hidden and undiscovered sounds and resonances, each release is available with supplemental materials providing a commonly forgotten tangible experience no longer associated with acquiring music.

http://nonprojects.net/

Sunday is for Singles Vol. 2

Aggro Crag (game over)
by sequins and skeletons (featuring: Obi Lori)

Aggro crag (game over) castle level by sequinsandskeletons

Sunday Singles just in time for the Holidays

Every Sunday you will be treated to an exclusive downloadable track for your home stereo system. This freebie comes to you from the RareBit of the Legendary Bones Brigade. Enjoy!



Blue blood baskets (cousins) by sequinsandskeletons

current obsession

This man. His voice.



I knew his beautiful duet with Jill Scott ('one time') but i had never taken a listen to his own songs.

sleep paralysis

I woke up this morning to a grey drizzle, still feeling tired. As I fell back asleep a horrible case of sleep paralysis came over me. I knew what was happening because this has happened to me before. It feels like my body falls completely asleep, but my eyes are still wide open with terror and my brain is still awake. I say that my eyes are wide open with terror because I've had this experience a few times before and I know what comes next: monsters, rushing at me from all directions. As I fell into sleep paralysis I immediately tried to wake myself up because I didn't wanna see the monsters. The process of falling into it includes an electrically vibrating buzzing, that feels like it's radiating out from your brain. Everything in my room is exactly the same except things start to move. My tv starts to move and I think its a moster, so I try to move but am locked into a paralysis. I try to talk, to yell my sister's name (since she is in the room next to me) but I can't manage anything other than a dry, empty gasp. I finally manage to wake myself up, but my body is so tired that I immediately go back into it again. This process of waking up and going back into for a short duration continues about 10 times, each time accompanied by the electrical, pulsating buzzing and objects in my room starting to move. The reason that I would continue to go back into it was that, although I was able to wake myself out of it, I wasn't able to bring my self to a high enough degree of wakefulness that I was able to avoid falling right back into it. Finally, I managed to do so. I didn't let myself stay in the sleep paralysis long enough to see the monsters this time (luckily), but it's happened every other time. Sleep paralysis has been theorized to explain alien abduction phenomena. Anyone else had similar experiences?

A Dream Team

An unbelievable display of talent that your mom, dad, grandma, and hip sister can all enjoy. Turn off True Blood and tune into the Downbeat showcase.



featuring a quick but memorable cameo by a possibly saddened Chick Corea.

New Project - Good Ships

A few weekends ago, Rarebit (http://www.sequinsandskeletons.com/) and I spent a night in my studio and came out with this. All the sounds have been created from vinyl sources manipulated physically during the recording process or with digital effects. This is the first installment and you can expect more to come. It is meant to be experienced as one long musical piece. You can download the file at the following link:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/myemtmm2znm

While you're waiting for it to download, you can preview some of the tracks on myspace.com/combat

Arthur Lipsett

All you need to know about life in the big city or anything else for that matter...

Cecil Taylor

If you listen close enough and long enough you might hear something that is more vital to you life than just a piano that sounds like a drum.

You're All Free Now

The Moon Was A Long Time Ago by COMBAT!

COMBAT! - The Moon Was A Long Time Ago by COMBAT!

COMBATDOTCOM.com

Silly Vijay Iyer Critic

http://peterbreslin.blogspot.com/2009/10/hystericity.html

These were dark times, dude.

From, I Love Hot Dogs.

Jazz Piano Dinner Date

As the summer ends i would like to invite you all on a very romantic dinner date

spray your fingertips with perfumes and meet me on youtube:

Haunted Stars: Abandoned Nazi Compound

thehauntedstars.com

Free Music

Hello All. the head line is a little misleading because i m planing on doing some dj set's/ mixes and haveing them for free to download here. i hope to record it before the end of the month.
the mix will include some but not all of the following.
-indie rock/psych/drone/freak beat/trip-hop/breaks/funk/soul/ and maybe a dance track for good meausure.
i have to record it at a friends house. i can't do it at home. getto. so ya. keep and ear out.

"GOOD SHIT,SOON" say's a friend. k bye.

Maalem Zakaria Houaoura

The very best

Armchair Ethnomusicology

Great news for all you sound enthusiasts, the British Library's Sound Archive is now available free online. Over 2000 hours of recordings, many from the collections of anthropological research trips, allow you to explore the folk music traditions of the globe. The website is well organized and contains everything from ethnographic wax cylinder recordings to surveys of English accents and dialects. Start digging!

Las Flores Project Interview

Friend and Ally, Contributor and Collaborator, Christian Banks, of Las Flores Project delivers a great interview and live DJ set for Sanguine Soul Radio out of San Francisco. Christian was kind enough to include Sequins and Skeletons in his set list.

http://www.sanguinesoul.com/archives/803

http://www.myspace.com/lasfloresproject

-RareBit

The Haunted Stars

"The Haunted Stars" is a new improvisational recording project created with the purpose of exploring the rarely considered sounds in our environment. We meet two times a month with the intention of exposing the life in forgotten buildings, dilapidated houses, abandoned factories, drainage tunnels, deserts, forests, barns and on and on and on...

There is still some magic that we can milk from the chapped teet of Los Angeles. 

We recorded our first session yesterday, it will be posted shortly, you're invited to the next one.

for further information visit: thehauntedstars.blogspot.com

-Rarebit

Red Sea Jazz Fest

COMBATDOTCOM.com

!!TIGERBITCH!!

!!TIGERBITCH!!

The new album from our dear friend, Grant C'debaca is finally finished and it is great. 

Album of the year.

Better than XBOX.

Better than Google Earth.

Download it:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8X50EGC6

http://tigerbitchisadick.blogspot.com/

-RareBit the Destroyer

Friendly Strangers

Friendly Strangers from Sean Ferris on Vimeo.

A Collaboration between Video Artist, Sean Ferris and Sequins and Skeletons.