Love it Mishti, great slow build, love the intense backup vocals. You have created a monster track! Congratulations!

Stunning, haunting, and infectious Mishti. Thank you for making my Friday! Best to Alex and Matt, incredible collaboration.

Love this person and her music. Along with Nols and Graff it's a dream team.

The Adventures Of Jabubu II by An Endless Sporadic

Porches ‘Hour’, taken from the new album ‘Pool’, out now.

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in my loner hour
i turn to my
twin bed for power
like a swimming a pool even alone
it gets me wet and cool
simple as the crow flies
that all i want
is an apple inside of my gray skies
in my stoner hour
o how i float
just wondering about her
in my stoner hour like a swimming pool

Hour

Porches - Hour

It was the way you smiled when I held your hand
It was the way I stumbled when I tried to stand
and when your father called and said you had to go
It was the way you begged for just a moment more

Someone told me, "You know when you know"
Something tells me, maybe this could grow
and I've been chasing something half as right
When you hold me, I'm Alive

It was the fear inside me when the silence came
It was the look you gave me when I said your name
and when I moved in closer and our bodies shook
It was the rise and fall with every breath you took

Someone told me, "You know when you know"
Something tells me, maybe this could grow
and I've been chasing something half as right
When you hold me, I'm Alive

It was the way the moonlight wrapped around your lips
It was the way you held me with your fingertips
and when I got the courage just to make a move
It was the way your lips said every silent truth

Someone told me, "You know when you know"
Something tells me, maybe this could grow
and I've been chasing something half as right
When you hold me, I'm Alive

Alive

The Day

Peace And Good Melody

What Do You Mean

Kesil

Sinead O'Connor's first ever recording. Fifteen year old Sinead co-wrote this song with In Tua Nua when they were forming the band and working with different singers.

Take My Hand

From Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf's "Science Fair" (9/21/18) on Sunnyside Records.

Scientists spend long hours investigating their passions, delving into the complex details of their research in pursuit of new knowledge. In a science fair, they demonstrate their findings, making them accessible and even fun. As a combustion reaction generates heat and light, a similar reaction happens between sound and movement. With the wonder of kids making a baking soda volcano, drummer Allison Miller and pianist Carmen Staaf combine bold musical concepts, tremendous collaborators, and a passion to challenge and explore into an eruption of energy on their fantastic new recording, Science Fair.

Miller is well-known in the jazz and pop worlds, having backed Natalie Merchant and Ani DiFranco, then going on to lead her own celebrated jazz ensembles, including Boom Tic Boom. Miller’s collaboration with Staaf began a few years ago. When Miller needed a piano substitute for the Reykjavik Jazz Festival in 2015, she called her friend, bassist Todd Sickafoose. He suggested Staaf, who had just finished her time at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, and had recently impressed Sickafoose on a performance at the Blue Whale in Los Angeles.

The connection was made and a three-show trial by fire ensued. The connection between the two musicians was immediate. They found a kindred spirit in each other, as their musical orientations are straight ahead, rhythmically minded, and open to suggestion. The most important element was the level of trust they quickly developed, thus freeing them to tap into their creativity more fully and spur their musical dialog. 

Miller and Staaf began to meet regularly. Their rehearsals led to collaborations in new ensemble configurations and with dancers. Dance and music for dance has been important for each of them. Miller grew up in a family enamored with movement and immersed herself in the Washington, DC youth dance scene. She went on to become musical director for a number of choreographers. Though not a dancer herself, Staaf has been drawn to music made for dancing, including Afro-Cuban, salsa, West African, and Indian vocal percussive music. 

Miller and Staaf’s experiments began to take shape as a recording project. They both began to bring tunes to their weekly rehearsals, and tinkered with arrangements and different ensemble lineups. They eventually picked bassist Matt Penman to round out their core trio. He proved to be of a similar mindset, fun-loving and open-minded, not to mention a highly swinging accompanist. For a number of pieces, the trio is augmented by one or two horns, namely the gifted trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire and the wonderful saxophonist Dayna Stephens. 

Assembling all of the pieces for Science Fair was akin to a science experiment. Miller and Staaf even had their own “mad scientist” in producer Ben Goldberg, who helped put the final pieces together. The two leaders wanted to insure that the compositions would be diverse yet balanced; there are four compositions from each composer, though they worked together to shape the final arrangements. Similarly, the leaders wanted to have a diverse ensemble representing a cosmopolitan mix of genders and races, but, most importantly, all sharing a passion for self and group expression.

Science Fair

Allison Miller & Carmen Staaf - MLW

Music and Lyrics: Mishti
Producer: Alex Nolan
Vocals: Mishti  
Guitars, bass, piano: Alex Nolan  
Drums, percussion and programming: Matt Graff
Engineering, Mixing, Mastering: Matt Graff

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Blondie meets Buckley in Palestine with a ratty Tele

Crave

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