Name: I Know - recorded live @ Resonant Radio Podcast by theohyeahs in APAs not following
Duration: 2 min 40 s
Description: by Leslie Beukelman - recorded live for Resonant Radio Podcast, Dec 2007

APAs not following

Recorded live at the 66th Annual Japanese Food & Cultural Bazaar at the Sacramento Buddhist Church (2012)

"Until You Come Back To Me" (Chaka Khan) cover by East Wind Band

by Leslie Beukelman - recorded live for Resonant Radio Podcast, Dec 2007

I Know - recorded live @ Resonant Radio Podcast

This song is about that feeling of being really into something, be it a song, an idea, a fashion look, a social group, a band, a person etc. It was initially inspired by an 8 year old friend of mine who is obsessed with the game, Mine Craft. He didn't know what it meant to be obsessed with something, but once I told him the meaning of the word, he promptly stated that he was obsessed with Mine Craft. That's how I started writing this song:) It ended up being more about the playfulness in my romantic relationship, in the verses, but maintains some of the game and other types of obsession in the choruses:)

Chorus:
So obsessed so into it
so sick so cool (2x)

Every song every note be so golden
Every year that we spend becomes olden
I tell you what I say it's been written
On this page every day we get bitten

Chorus

Every game that we play tells a story
Clever things that you say to and for me
If you win I'll give then why fight it?
Pair of dice little spin don't deny it

-from So Sick So Cool, releases 22 April 2015 
Gabby La La - vocals, recorders and claps 
Ian Vanek from Japanther - drums 
Miriam Speyer - background vocals and claps 
produced by Boots Riley 
mixed & mastered by Damion Gallegos at Chub Studios

So Sick So Cool

Corroded Communes for Re-Tuned Piano by Kraig Grady
Piano, Tiffany Lin
Recorded March 13, 2009 @ The Good Shepherd Center, Seattle WA
Commissioned by Tiffany Lin

Program Notes: 
The title Corroded Communes is not a comment or vision on any outward
commune. It refers to what James Hillman called, the “Inner Commune”.
His thought explored that possibly communism was not possible until
humans learn to integrate their own inner communes first. If done there,
would show itself in the world. Hence the piece recognizes a possible
starting point and then attempts to consolidate and allow some voice to a

While composing music for the last 35 years, the composition Corroded Communes marks the first composi- tion Kraig Grady has written for the piano. Early on he found that the equal temperament tuning used in the west drained all of his creative drive. His interest in alternative tunings lead him away to use his own instru- ments to explore alternative tunings. A few years back though his friend, George Secor developed a tuning designed to play in all 12 keys but with a different approach. He approached the problem looking at both pure and chords that beat equally. This latter property the theorist and Grady’s mentor Erv Wilson had found to often sound remarkably consonant. Math cannot really tell us all that a tuning will do and it was only by play- ing in the tuning did Grady find that he enjoyed it. While later Secor “improved” on this scale, quite a few have paid noticed that there is just something “special” about this particular version tuning that a mathematical inspection just missed. Secor noticed this himself. Grady says unlike other tunings he has used for their new possibilities, it is in this case something quite conventional that he almost feels more than hears. With this, he parallels Lou Harrison who used a tuning called Werckmeister2 which he used in composing for convention- ally tuned instruments. Also when Lou Harrison who would say, “I wrote it in my tuning and I cannot help what tuning they play it in”. Fortunately this premiere will have a special piano retuned to Secors tuning
plurality that strives to exist side by side.

Corroded Communes

Live recording @ Black Oak Casino (4-20-12)

"That's the Way of the World (EWF)" cover by East Wind Band

Live recording @ Pacific Rim Street Festival in Sacramento, CA (5/22/12)

"All Day Music (War)" cover by East Wind Band

I use this Soundcloud site to store some files that I post at an Asian American music-making tumblr blog.

We are The Oh Yeahs.

‘The Oh Yeahs,’ an acoustic group featuring three of Chicago’s top vocalists and multi-instrumentalists: Leslie Beukelman, Allison Orobia, and Sarah Marie Young.  Each of these women has a diverse musical background, but they all have one thing in common:  they love to make music and sing together, and it shows.  
