Today's guest is drummer and audio engineer Emmett Ceglia. In his second appearance on the podcast, I spoke to Ceglia about his musical biography starting with drumming competitions in Long Island, studying drums at Berklee College of Music, and moving to Brooklyn to become a drummer for hire. Along the way we use a lot of sports metaphors, discuss "white whale" fills, breakdown the busiest stretch of Ceglia's career, and then close up with a conversation about the anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion", of which we are both big fans. I had a blast catching up with Emmett and talking about drums and the wider world of heavy music with him.

Here is the self described: "Emmett Extended Universe":
Detach The Islands (https://detachtheislands.bandcamp.com/)
Semaphore (https://semaphoretheband.bandcamp.com/)
Sannhet (https://sannhet.bandcamp.com/)
Fluoride (https://fluoridegrind.bandcamp.com/)
Heavenview (https://heavenview.bandcamp.com/)
Thin (https://thinshred.bandcamp.com/)
Juan Bond (https://juanbond.bandcamp.com/)
Gatherers (https://gatherersband.bandcamp.com/)
Cast Iron Kale (https://castironkale.bandcamp.com/releases)
No Dream (https://nodreamband.bandcamp.com/releases)

And here is the link to my own bandcamp, where you can grab my new album "You Can't Do This Alone": https://lamniformes.bandcamp.com/

Lamniformes Radio Episode 47 - Emmett Ceglia (Sannhet, Semaphore, Detach The Islands)

lyrics:
Thunder clap and a drizzle start
I only smile in the sun
If my S.A.D.'s acting up
Please forgive me if I don't have fun

Don't speed up, we just started walking
But let's not slow down
I don't mind getting caught in your rain
Please don't tell me we cannot work things out

While I'd say that I'm trying to retain my form
I'll admit I'm not ready to combat the storm

The First Si Doux EP 

Album art by Annie Russell (http://annierussellillustration.tumblr.com/)

Stormy Weather

original tune written in berlin, germany summer 2016. recorded at J-O studios, nyc, october, 2016.

Underway (Demo) (2016)

Lyrics:

Pick your words and say them again 
You're contentious with pretension 
Lacking substance to your arguments 
Dominate the new's flow 
'Cause you don't really want us to know 

Control The Masses 
The Subtle Fascists 

Well 

If we listen, we would agree, 
But we'll just stay ignorant while saying 
I don't really wanna know 

It's black and white 
Let's make them fight 

Control The Masses 
The Subtle Fascists 

We could converge and take it down 
Our gap in issues starts to break down 
Well I know 
If we listen, we would agree, 
But we'll just stay ignorant while saying 
I don't really wanna know

All instruments, vocals, and mixing by Siddhu Anandalingam 

Mastered by Alan Douches (West West Side Music) 
Album artwork by Karim Samuels (Freedom Kult)

Lyrics:

You're storing memories to lose them again 
You'll forget everything when this whole thing ends 
You can't even predict what tomorrow bring 
But don't lose track of living in the present 

In trying to survive I'll just slip off in time 
In trying to survive I'll try to force the sublime 

You cannot win the fight, the uphill struggle 
The choices that you make all amount to nothing 
It's just a series of vague anxieties 
Will you resolve them, or will you let them flee? 

You pick your poison and you dig that ditch again 
You tell yourself it doesn't really matter 
You pick your poison and you dig that ditch again 
You tell yourself you will not let it out 

So you go out with friends, and have a nice laugh 
Try to stay grounded in all the things that you have 
You'll try to keep from thoughts weighing on your mind 
But don't fret since you'll never learn how to fly 

You pick your poison and you dig that ditch again 
You tell yourself it doesn't really matter 
Don't hold onto expectation 
Don't get oh so carried away

All instruments, vocals, and mixing by Siddhu Anandalingam 

Mastered by Alan Douches (West West Side Music) 
Album artwork by Karim Samuels (Freedom Kult)

Destroying The Evidence

Lyrics:

Foolish kid, your silence speaks volumes of innocence 
(It doesn't have to be so bad, whining won't get you there half as fast) 
Foolish kid, your imagination does not exist 
(It doesn't have to be so bad, whining won't get you there half as fast)

Open wide, let these demons inside 
You couldn't scare them away if you tried 
Override, put your trust in white lies 
Let them go pull the wool over your own eyes

Foolish kid, only the weak become apologists 
(It doesn't have to be so bad, whining won't get you there half as fast) 
Foolish kid, only the young think that they can resist 
(It doesn't have to be so bad, crying won't get you there half as fast)

Open wide, let these demons inside 
You couldn't scare them away if you tried 
Override, put your trust in white lies 
Let them go pull the wool over your eyes

It's not that this world is unfair 
You just need to learn not to care 
You won't survive unless you realize life is just a compromise

Dream on 
(You're having nightmares) 
Float on 
(Your thoughts are heavy) 
Dance on 
(Your feet are cramping) 
Move on 
(You need some rest)

(Dream on) 
You're having nightmares 
(Float on) 
Your thoughts are heavy 
(Dance on) 
Your feet are cramping 
(Move on) 
And fool yourself

All instruments, vocals, and mixing by Siddhu Anandalingam

Mastered by Alan Douches (West West Side Music) 
Album artwork by Karim Samuels (Freedom Kult)

Folly Of Youth (Single Version)

download here:* https://pynkie.bandcamp.com/
on all streaming sites:** https://open.spotify.com/artist/45GkpefZW8F5td5gkU8f29?si=UYcfG0sBTjOnxFtedT06ug 
New music video (out 5/1/18) !! ~ https://youtu.be/cKJTKJwr6hk

~the original version (featured in da vid ^^^) will be on my debut album out June 1st!

ENJOY~~~~~

Lindsey Radice: singer/songwriter
Dylan Sky Herman: engineer/producer

p.s. Lyrics! (requested by @vanillacaterpillar ) ~~~

Stay with me, my morning dew
Won't you be my love?
I need all you're givin me
It's you, oh you I'm dreamin of

All day long I'm day dreamin
Lookin out the window at the sun
In my tiny mind, I'm hiding out
Thinkin bout my lovely little one

In the time I spend with my head up in space, man
I am thinkin of your face
And when the morning sunlight brightens up my basement
I can feel your warm embrace

Since the day my love was born,
He was bound to come my way
Now he's here and here to stay,
Right until my dying day

In the time I spend with my head up in space, man
I am thinkin of your face
And when the morning sunlight brightens up my basement
I can feel your warm embrace,
Lover.

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Dew ♥ [Lo-Fi Version]

a 15-minute cosmic odyssey.

Ryan Janzen - Keyboards/Synth/Keyboard Bass
Seth Takacs - Drums/Guitar

Album Art by Juan Oliverria

In The Garden

Today’s guest is Siddhu Anandalingam of the band Semaphore. Siddhu is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and self-recorder. On previous Semaphore projects, He wrote, performed and recorded all the material himself. But on their latest EP, “Leave With The Season” released earlier this year, he brought in the rest of his live band, including previous Lamniformes Radio guest Emmet Ceglia, to contribute to the creative process. The result is a five song collection that incorporates shoegaze, emo, and post-hardcore to address a period of loneliness and dissatisfaction in his life.

In this episode, we went track by track through the EP to spool out the band’s inspirations and intentions. We also talked about his early influences growing up in Bethesda, Maryland and Semaphore’s incredibly ambitious live cover of The Dillinger Escape Plan’s  “Miss Machine.”

Lamniformes Radio Episode 3 - Semaphore

Check out the FaceBook: www.facebook.com/semaphoretheband/ and BandCamp: https://semaphoretheband.bandcamp.com/releases

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Semaphore

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