aka "new directions" aka "the city of nite"
recorded live

synthesizers, drum machine, mixing board, lowpass filter, delay, reverb, looper

-Meet Your Power Animal In Your Garden->

Minerals are Wendy Farina: drums, vocal; Raven Mahon: bass, vocal; Brian Tester: guitar, guitar synthesizer, vocal.
Recorded on one day in July and a few days in August 2016.

Minerals - EP

Wendy Farina: drums & voice
Raven Mahon: bass & voice
Brian Tester: guitar & voice & synthesizer

Recorded and mixed 2017/2018 in Oakland and San Francisco by BT

Minerals LP

Spaceburn PURP 2

NoClocks 1012wav

An extract from recent times on the table top.

mousse and maus

moose and mouse

another slice of just-in-time composition off the loop buffer, in homage to LC

for leonora

solstice practices

Mark Kono performing live at Cone Shape Top, on May 22 2023.

SEQ@CST3 May22 Mark Kono

Sally Decker performing live at Cone Shape Top, on May 22 2023.

SEQ@CST3 May22 Sally Decker

Carson Day performing live at Cone Shape Top, on May 22 2023.

SEQ@CST3 May22 Carson Day

An edit of my musical contribution to a collaborative performance with Jeepneys, AKA Anna Luisa Petrisko, at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF CA June 18 2015.

HEAVY BREATHING

Jonny 1Time Schroeder (drum machine), Brian Tester (synthesizers), Mark Treise (guitar, vocals) playing one late spring afternoon in 2009 at Michael Salmon's and Steve Santa Maria's house in Berkeley, CA. Like so many shows back then, this was recorded by Adam Gochnauer.

Lemon Pretend live @ Michael Salmon's house, Berkeley 2009

Like so many shows back then, this was recorded by Adam Gochnauer.

Lemon Pretend@Salmon/SantaMaria House 2, Berkeley 2009

Minerals 4

Minerals 3

Minerals 2

Minerals 1

One Jon Almaraz, one Brian Tester, one sk1, one vss30, one set of keys, one charango, one electric guitar, one microphone, one afternoon.

jon&brian oct25 2009 - 1st blue one

Spaceburn - nothing in the box

Live hardware acid set at Fort Gallery in Oakland, CA on 4/20/21010.

live set @ FORTwenty 2010

sloppy forest

Wendy Farina: drums & voice
Raven Mahon: bass & voice
Brian Tester: guitar & voice & synthesizer

Minerals LP At Last

Minerals LP Mess Around

Minerals LP Natural History

Minerals LP Redacted

Minerals LP No Good Answers

To serve the muses
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. . . Aux Meadows, Silver Shadows, Hits, WOE, Plattenbau, Spaceburn, Bulbs, Jeepneys, Jealousy, Chen Santa Maria, Group Rhoda, Ruby Pins, Soft Shells, Le Skeleton/Gomme, Wave and Particle, Axolotl, Safety Scissors, The Busy Signals, Walker Kong, Fruit Bats, Le Flange Du Mal, Triangle, Total Overcomers Anonymous, Jogger, are some of those I have recorded, mixed, mastered, and or performed with or as. . . 

Releases appear on Glowing Dagger, Freaks, Paisley Shirt Records, Discarded Tapes, Break-Up Records, Laser Palace, File 13, Essay Records, Pertin-nce, Smoke + Mirrors, Kodama, Rice and Beans/Beta Bodega, Crooked Spine Records.

Brian Tester

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