crazy music = crazy life

Ross Wallace Chait - drums + vocals
Joel Jensen-Heath - bass
Yoel DeJesus - keys + piano
Tara Milch - flute
Patrick Nolan - guitar
Joshua Sushman - saxophone
Harmony Tividad - vocals on "Downtown Man"
Juliana Giraffe - vocals on "Church"

Engineered, mixed, and mastered by Greg Hartunian at Tropico Beauty in Los Angeles.

Bass and drums on "Golden Light" engineered by Tim Horner at The Ship Studio in Los Angeles.

Cover art by Angela Wallace.

Copyright Total Heat Music and Ross Wallace Chait BMI

Church (ft. Juliana Giraffe)

Downtown Man (ft. Harmony Tividad)

Feelin'

Golden Light

Ross Chait - drums
Kern Haug - drums

Recorded at ABC in LA
Mixed by Kern Haug

Debut single from Jowe Head of Television Personalities and Swell Maps new record + book Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls.

Release Date: 08/05/2022

More info and pre-order: https://steadyhandrecords.com/products/jowe-head-screeches-scribble-and-scrawls

Louise Bourgeois by Jowe Head

Jeph Jerman is a musician in Cottonwood Arizona. He started playing the drums as a teenager and spent years in bar bands around the US. Later on, his focus in music became improvisation and experimenting with field recording, home-built instruments and electronics. He released music under the alias Hands To starting in the mid eighties. More recently he’s founded the Animist Orchestra project; a makeshift ensemble of musicians playing pinecones, feathers, sticks and rocks among other things. Jeph writes the score and provides some of the instruments, then the Animist Orchestra tries to emulate as big of a rumble as possible with what they have. In 2014 he received an artist grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art. Jeph has a long-running duo with Sonic Youth collaborator Tim Barnes. Together they’ve released a number of records, latest of which was called “Goethe” on Confront, and frequently tour. This new release, titled “Exploded View” is really something. It demonstrates Jeph’s characteristic ability to be delicate with harsh sound artifacts and navigate the improvised plane with ultimate attention to detail. This work exposes a level of artistry only someone who’s been at it for over 40 years can really pull off.

Edition of 50.

Exploded View

Jeph Jerman - "Exploded View" (excerpt)

Steady Hand Records is a label for noise, experimental and freeform music run by Ross Wallace Chait in Los Angeles.

2016
SH 001 - Jeph Jerman "Exploded View" C50

2017
SH 002 - Juice Machine "Sparkling Water" C30

2019 
SH 003 - Cat Lamb / Erika Bell "Pulse/Shade | 1-"

2020
SH 004 - Total Heat "Hot For Jazz"

2021
SH 005 - Sax Beat "Sax Beat"

2022
SH 006 - Jowe Head "Screeches, Scribbles, and Scrawls"

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