Includes samples from Blake DeGraw on trombone, reimagining the original ragtime piece as a 14-tone/12-tone composition.

The Entertainer (entrainment remix)

Weighted Blanket (Oct. 2022)

All tracks written and produced by Garden Party.
Recorded at Space Ranch Studios with Matt Brown.
Mixed by Erik Blood.
Mastered by Ed Brooks.

Candy Kids

Composed using 14-tone scale for a sound art competition.

Supercell

02 Cyanide Haiku - Kotzebue Sound

The Dharma at Big Sur is a composition for solo electric violin and orchestra by John Adams. A sample of the recording has been spliced and adapted to a rhythmic formula.

"The piece calls for some instruments (harps, piano, samplers) to use just intonation, a tuning system in which intervals sound pure, rather than equal temperament, the common Western tuning system in which all intervals except the octave are slightly impure. The piece was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles and was conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. The electric violin solo was performed by Tracy Silverman." WIKIPEDIA

Image by Michael Shainblum.


Big Sur_big splice

Ribbon Cage

Created with samples of a 3/4 sized nylon stringed guitar on cassette tape.

Nylons 3

Rehearsal of bowed technique for electric bass + amorphic work-in-progress  samples.

[solo bowing technique]_Ringu III sample

Recorded in an empty apartment building in Bremerton, Washington.

Blake DeGraw - saxophone
Kevin Lewis - cello
Jeff Anderson - double bass

Here Comes Columbus

Music written and recorded in 2013.
Photo of Stone Sky by Florian Holzherr, courtesy of James Turrell, 2005.

2006-2011

Mirage

Garden Party started playing together in West Seattle in early 2020. The band is unapologetically steeped in Northwest rock and early psychedelic and 70’s grooves. 

Current:
Caleb Quick (prev. The Moondoggies)
Jonathan "JoJo" Mercer (Teacher) 
Nate Monroe (Spacesuit)
Carl Dahlen (The Moondoggies) 
Jeff Anderson (Moon Dial, Tea Cozies)

Former:
Gregg Anderson (Dryspell, The Scheme, Johnny Nails)

Garden Party is set to release their first LP end of summer, 2023.

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