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.