vary from song to song ..............................................................................
"Tel Aviv Waltz"
violin: Emily Breines/
harpsichord, piano, tambourine: Norm Demoura/
backing vocals: Maggie Nowinski/
upright and bowed bass: Mike Pattavina/
vocals, backing vocals, guitars, floor tom: Daniel/............
"Distance to Mars"
backing vocal: Abbie Barrett/
bass: Norm Demoura/
drums: Mike Levesque/
vocals, guitars, ebow, wurlitzer, celeste, cello: Daniel/............
"Bridges Freeze First"
pedal steel: Matt Beers/
violin: Emily Breines/
drums: Mike Levesque/
upright and bowed bass: Mike Pattavina/
vocals, guitars, banjo, banjoud, acoustic bass, harmonica: Daniel/............
"Shepherd of Lost Shopping Carts"
drums: Tony Vacca/
bass, cello, wurlitzer: Norm/
harmony vocals: Emily Brewster/
vocals, guitars, cello, ebow: Daniel/...........
"Wrong Meter"
drums: Tony Vacca/
bass, guitars, piano: Norm/
harmony vocals: Emily Brewster/
vocals, guitars, harmonica, secret weapon, Marantz: Daniel.........
"Vacationland"
drums: Mike Levesque/
bass: Kurt Fedora/
dobro: Charle Conant/
harmony vocals: Anne Pinkerton & Emily Brewster/
guitars, vocals: Daniel/.........
accomplices on other songs include: Scot Coar, Christopher Wilkey, Kate Stephens...
Influences
John Luther Adams, Air Castle, alcoves, Agha Shahid Ali, The Ambiguities, analog synth, Sherwood Anderson, animals, Angry Epileptics, Angry Johnny & The Killbillies, Animal Collective, The Anomoanon, Apples In Stereo, Simon Armitage, The Art of Clear Thinking, asparagus, autumn, avocadoes, JS Bach, Gaston Bachelard, Bag of Hammers, Kid Bailey, Jesse Ball, Rocky Balboa, Nicholson Baker, Banksy, Barefoot Illiterates, basements, Chas Baudeliare, Baystate Hotel, Beach Boys, Beatles, Beastie Boys, Beck, Samuel Beckett, Bee Gees, Stagger Lee Beers, Belle and Sebastian, Berkshire Blue, Berkshire Brewing Company, Andrew Bird, Birgitta Musik, Elizabeth Bishop, Black Diamond Super Sharp Cheddar, William Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, any blind guitarist/singer from the 20s & 30s, Blues Explosion, bodies of water, The Books, Borges, Bowie, Paul Bowles, Andre Breton, Broken Social Scene, Greg Brown, James Brown, Willie Brown, Dave Brubeck, Tim Buckley, Buddha, Buffalo Springfield, Bugs Bunny, buildup of earwax, Byrds, caffeine, John Cage, JJ Cale, Calexico, Califone, Italo Calvino, Dino Campana, Captain Beefheart, Car, Buster Carter, Johnny Cash, Cat of Many Names, Celine, Blaise Cendrars, Cerberus Shoal, Chaucer, The Chills, Jesus Christ, The Jesus Lizard, cognitive dissonance, Chopin, The Church, The Clash, Patsy Cline, Daniel Clowes, Coen Brothers, coffee, Leonard Cohen, Coleridge, John Coltrane, Ry Cooder, EE Cummings, Conduit (the magazine), Joseph Conrad, Pat Conte, Julio Cortazar, Manuel Crailes, The Cure, Cyclub, Damon & Naomi, Donnie Darko, Miles Davis, Don DeLillo, De Chirico, Death Vessel, The Deerhunter, Devo, Steve Desaulniers, Robert Desnos, Dickens, Emily Dickinson, dioramas, Dirty Three, disco guitar, DJ Shadow, Donovan, John Dos Passos, Dostoyevsky, Nick Drake, Drink Me, Dr. Who, Duchamp, the Dude, Dukes of Stratosphere, Bob Dylan, Eagleview Drive, Umberto Eco, Echo & the Bunnymen, Eleventh Dream Day, Emetrex, Brian Eno, Will Eno, Epic Soundtracks, Ernst, Everly Bros, Evil Bill, Th Faith Healers, The Fall, Faulkner, The Feelies, Fender Superchamp, fermentation, field trips, Ella Fitzgerald, The Flamingos, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, The Fleshtones, Kinky Friedman, Robert Frost, Fugazi, Galaxy 500, Terry Gilliam, Dizzy Gillespie, ginger, Elton Glaser, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Fancypants Goldthwaite, Goodfoot, Go To Blazes, Grieg, The Grifters, guacamole, Guided By Voices, Woodie Guthrie, habanero, Merle Haggard, Grant Hart, PJ Harvey, gravity, hammocks, James Hampton, Barry Hannah, Donnie Hathaway, Hawthorne, Hendricks. Jimi Hendrix, Joe Henry, Herzog, Bob Hicok, high hats, Robyn Hitchcock, Billie Holliday, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, hormones, horseradish, Son House, The Housemartins, Richard Hugo, Hugo Largo, Pat Hunter, Husker Du, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Illinois, Charles Ives, Izzy, Jackson 5, Max Jacob, jalapeno cream cheese, Jandek, Jane (my ’63 Guild), Jobo, Denis Johnson, Robert Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Wild Bill Jolliff, Scott Joplin, Attila Jozsef, Joyce, Joy Division, Kafka, Wolf Kahn, kayaking, Keats, Weldon Kees, Kerouac, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Obi Wan Kenobi, Phillips Kloss, Noelle Kocot, Bill Knott, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, Philip Larkin, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, Kid Loco, King Crimson, MLK, The Kinks, Paul Klee, kombucha, Kris Kristofferson, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Milan Kundera, Lanfordaires, Bruce Langfeld, Daniel Lanois, Led Zeppelin, Merriweather Lewis, The Lilys, lime, The Lonesome Organist, Lorca, Lost Audio Network, Love, Guy Maddin, Magritte, Maine, Malcolm X, Mallarme, Manna House, maple syrup, Marah, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Marx, Massachusetts, Cormac McCarthy, Nellie McKay, Del McCoury Band, Meat Puppets, Melville, The ‘Mericans, WS Merwin, milkshakes, Czeslaw Milosz, Milton, The Minders, Charles Mingus, Miracle Legion, Mission of Burma, Mississippi John Hurt, Mohammed, Thelonious Monk, Monoland, Bill Monroe, Eugenio Montale, Montana, Eugenio Montejo, Marianne Moore, Morphine, mountains, Mr. Show, Robert Musil, Os Mutantes, Nabokov, Prince Namor, National Convention, natural history museums, Chris Nelson, Pablo Neruda, New Pornographers, New Radiant Storm King, Nietzche, Nirvana, Nuggets, Number 6, Of Montreal, Carl Orff, Mozart, Charlie Parker, Octavio Paz, Old Crow Medicine Show, Orwell, Our Poor Neighbors, Buck Owens, oxygen, Palace et al, Panda Bear, Paragraph, Charlie Parker, Harry Partch, Charlie Patton, Pavement, Cesare Pavese, Pennsylvania, People's Pint, Fernando Pessoa, phases of the moon, Astor Piazolla, ponds, Francis Ponge, Vasko Popa, porches, portabella mushrooms, Patrick Porter, Jacques Prevert, Prince, Public Enemy, Riley Puckett, Philip Pullman, Purple Ivy Shadows, Pynchon, R2D2, Lawrence Raab, Radiohead, Ma Rainey, raptors, Man Ray, Red Door Exchange, Red Red Meat, Red Sovine, Lou Reed, REM, The Rendezvous, The Replacements, The Residents, Rilke, Yannis Ritsos, Robbe-Grillet, Mr. Roboto, Rolling Stones, Sonny Rollins, saccades,Tomaz Salamun, JD Salinger, Erik Satie, Chris Sand, George Saunders, WG Sebald, Secret Museum of Mankind, Ramon Gomez De La Serna, Shakespeare, Ravi Shankar, Richard Shelton, Sam Shepherd, The Shins, Shostakovich, Sigur Ros, Charles Simic, Paul Simon, Six Organs of Admittance, sleestacks, Slint, Sly & the Family Stone, The Smiths, Smog, snare drums, Sonic Youth, Sons of the Pioneers, Souled American, Span of Sunshine, spider webs, sriracha, Frank Stanford, Stanley Brothers, Star Wars (A New Hope & Empire), Stereolab, Sugarcubes, Sufjian Stevens, Wallace Stevens, Al Stewart, Dr. Strange, String Builder, St. Daniel the Stylite, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Jules Superveille, synapses, Wislawa Symborska,Talking Heads, Gad Tanner & The Skillet Lickers, tapioca, James Tate, Thievery Corporation, Thinkin Fellars Union Local 282, Tinirawen, Tin Hat Trio, Tomita, tomyum soup, Ali Farka Toure, Tomas Transtromer, Trappist breweries, TV on the Radio, Chuang Tzu, U2, Uncle Tupelo, Velvet Underground, Tom Verlaine, vernal ponds, Francois Villon, vindaloo, Stephen Vitiello,Vonnegut, Tom Waits, Robert Walser, Wild Willy Waltz, Chuck E. Weiss, Gillian Welch, HG Wells, whale songs, Dara Wier, Nate Wiley & The Crowd Pleasers, Bukka White, The White Stripes, Whitman, Wilco, The Wilders, Tennessee Williams,WC Williams, Stevie Wonder, words, World Party, Charles Wright, James Wright, X, Yeungling, Yofi Faya Batyam Ella Gingeet Metuka, Yo La Tengo, Dean Young, Preston Young, Young Marble Giants,Youth Brigade, Neil Young,Yuppim Im Jeepim, za’atar, Zeeeem, Zorro, to name a few...
Over the years (and decades), Daniel wrote many songs that, for one reason or another, didn't quite fit with any of the bands he plays in (SHArQ, The Ambiguities, The Wherewithal). They didn't get to play any reindeer games, and so these neglected songs grew increasingly lonely and sad. In 2004, Daniel began creating the basic tracks for the misfit songs on his Tascam 4 track cassette recorder. Then transferred them to 24 track at Sow's Ear Studio and added more tracks, and then they were transferred again into Protools at Apophenia Studio. Here he, producer Norm Demoura, and several fantastic guest musicians continued layering voices, dobros, brushed PBR cans, banjouds, secret weapons, and sundry other sonic textures till there was no more space for adding, and then they began to subtract. In July '08, the first 5 songs were finished and mastered, and the ep "Bridges Freeze First" released into the cosmos. Daniel and Norm continue to fine tune the full 14 song album, "Frost Heaves," but the end is in sight. Soon these songs will be free to go forth and make friends where they will...
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Daniel Hales & the Frost Heaves's Friend Space (Top 24)
a potato couch in the sun is a good thing to be, when the experience is shared by loved ones... i believe that is what hatula is doing, last time i saw her.
Hey! I never said thanks for enjoying the "Bide My Time" track. We thought of you when we recorded it, cause it's got that certain Daniel je ne sais quoi. I'm really psyched to hear both of our finished products. Seems like we are leading parallel musical lives!!
Thanks, Heave Ho (all due respect when I use the word HO)! Glad you dig both musical forms of ..sexy terminology, eh?). Oh isnt that head massager soooo gooooood droooool..... catch you on the flip side, taco joe!
You know, i don't think that Lola has plans, but when I let her have the car she seems to have a problem cause she tends to keep her head out the window rather than in with her eyes on the road, damn dog!
What time does it all happen? Unfortunately, I work nights and that usually means missing the best Sat. night shows as well. Will try, tho. I love the rendevous...
I got the mix, it was wonderful. But I thought I might let you know that the Sufjan Stevens song on the CD is not called "Casmir Pulaski Day", because if it were called that, it would be about bone cancer and I'd cry. So, what was that song called for real?
Also, thanks for reminding me of how good Le Tigre is/was. Did you see them in East Hampton back in '02?
Yes. And that is the sequel- "the Kong Affair". (Though I do believe in actuality Kong does get killed yet again while the lovely Ms. Watts gets saved by what's his fuck, of course..so sad...)
Goodness, it couldn't keep my attention after two cosmos and a beer. Despite her longing for the big ape she ran off with Adrian Brody to make pretty babies with him?
1) You're the only person that has or will have the CD that knows who Randy is, and you have the cassette so cool it.
2) I couldn't find a copy of that tape in time to meet the strict deadline set by the folks at Glad Stone, hence the inclusion of the inferior 2007 version of "Mill Street Blues".
And as for Human Pudding, he'll be getting his own "Essential" treatment very soon. Glad Stone just thought that tasteless no-fi hip hop would interrupt the flow of this perfect compilation. I agree, and we also need to obtain the rights to the Beastie Boys instrumentals used on the early stuff and for the Paul Simon sample. We're also trying to get in touch with the producers of "Full House" to ask permission to use the name Human Pudding.
Yo yo, no scene was made my brother. The youngin found her way back without me, but in May I might be up there again. I'll alert you well in advance. Peace out.
