SOUND CLOUD!  haha

Mgmt / me:   tim@spiritlevel.com

producer and mix engineer
For beat sales and mix work email zootlab@gmail.com
@maghreban alter ego
STRANGE U producer
@drzygote on Twitter and Instagram
I won 'Soundclouder of the Day' in Spring 2013, thats why I have so many followers..

Yellowbirds is the moniker for the latest musical exploits of Sam Cohen (guitarist / songwriter / vocalist in the psychedelic collective Apollo Sunshine).  Cohen grew up in Houston, Texas, and while the Texas of his teens may have been home to Big Oil, Enron, the Bush family, and the drab grey Astros jerseys of the 90's, he prefers to think of it as the Texas of yore- home to Roy Orbison, Buddy Holly, the Space Program, and rainbow orange Astros jerseys.  It stands to reason, then, that his current home of New York City must be the mythical Empire City - Rocky Mountains of architecture, epicenter of modern art, home to Charles Mingus and The Velvet Underground.  

It was with these timeless inspirations in mind that Cohen created Yellowbirds' The Color', his "solo" debut.  Double-speed auto-harp glissandos, glowing backwards pedal-steel, bubbling echo and fuzz guitars coalesce into a warm wall of sound.  As existential lyrical themes emerge, delivered nonchalantly over psyched-out aural landscapes, the picture emerges of a dust-blown, 4th dimensional Future West.  This is Cohen's quixotic world where "only the purist tones can be heard".  

Stop by datepalmsofpsalms.com for show and release updates and other media coming soon


Thrupence is a music project by Jack Vanzet.
All releases available in full on all good listening platforms. 

contact@jackvanzet.com

Debut album "Mr Wolf Is Dead" is out 3/24/15 - pre-order it now on iTunes at: hyperurl.co/lq5op3 


From 2007 to 2013 I was releasing music compilations (comps for short) via the musicblog comps4jenna.  I was also broadcasting an even wider selection of music across the airwaves through my show The Quest running from 2010 to 2013 on the Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP).  After a 6-year hiatus, in 2019 I mailed out postcards (technically index cards) to friends and family sharing four more comps seasonally themed Comps 65 (Spring) through 68 (Winter).

The origin of these compilations dates back to early 2007 when I gave several mixes to my friend Jenna.  In Fall 2020 I recompiled those initial mixes into Comps 1-4 (which had been reserved as placeholders for all those years on comps4jenna – the first comp ever released for public consumption was Comp 5) and Comps 69-72 bookending all previous releases.  These re-compilations were once again shared with friends and family this time using actual postcards.  All 72 compilations are available here and in a Spotify playlist named quest4comps in which now the word "comps" is also short for completeness.

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