Music, Travel, Architecture, Good coffee and Good beer.
Music
ECM, Rune Gammofon, Editions Mego, Kranky, Basic Channel/Chain Reaction, Thrill Jockey, FSS, Blue Note, Touch, Hat Hut/Hat[ology], Scape, Entr'acte, Earache, Impulse!, Saturn Records, Important, Ralph Records, Southern Lord, Type, Table of the Elements, and/OAR, Opal, Editions EG, Mosz, Line, For 4 Ears, Erstwhile, and many many others.
latest inspiration:
Supersilent - 8
Lurker of Chalice - s/t
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Cloudland Canyon - Lie in Light
Aethenor - Betimes Black Cloudmasses
Nemeth - Film
Movies
Last seen:
The Bothersome Man
Control
Strangers on a Train
Iron Man
There Will Be Blood
Sweet Movie (1974)
Into Great Silence
Helvetica
Television
Twin Peaks, X-Files, Battlestar Galactica
Books
Now Reading:
Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
Recent Reads:
The Iron Wagon - Jason (Graphic Novel)
CAN BOX :book - Hildegard Schmidt/Wolf Kampmann
Lords of Chaos - Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind
Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
The Chiango (short) - Jack London
A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire - Anton Chekhov
Performed, recorded, or otherwise collaborated with, such artists as:
Tony Buck (the necks)
Jon Mueller
Christian Fennesz
Robert Hampson (loop, Main, Godflesh)
Glenn Kotche (wilco)
Adam Sonderberg
Jim Baker
Jason Roebke (tigersmilk)
male
Olivia Block
Jason Kahn
Greg Davis
keefe jackson
David Daniell/Doug McCombs duo
Sylvain Chauveau
Stefan Nemeth (radian)
Pierre-Yves Mace
Miles Tilmann
Martin Siewert (trapist, efzeg)
to name a few.
ongoing Groups/Projects:
Fessenden (Utech Records, entr'acte, Other Electricities)
Pan American (Kranky, Mosz)
Haptic (Entr'acte, FSS)
WORK (con-v)
Dropp Ensemble (Longbox recordings, Either/OAR)
On (Brocoli Records)
Works for theatre - The Empire Builders (Boris Vian), Theatre Group: Sense of Urgency. Soundtrack/score can be found at - www.longboxrecordings.com (Dropp Ensemble).
Has toured through-out the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe.
Selected discography:
2008: Steven Hess + Miles Tilmann - Departures (Other Electricities), Haptic - Repetition mp3 EP (Crouton), Fessenden - v1.1 (Other Electricities), Male - All Are Welcome LP. Go to www.xrkx.net/male (free download of all tracks PLUS a bonus track not on LP)
2007: On - Second Souffle (Brocoli Records), Haptic - Correction 7"(Entr'acte/Absurd).
2006: Pan American – For Waiting, For Chasing (Mosz), Mouths/Haptic – 1V2E/Danjon Scale (Entr'acte), Keith Berry/Fessenden – Bleu: (Chat Blanc), Robert Hampson + Steven Hess EP (Crouton).
2005: Greg Davis + Steven Hess – Decisions (Longbox Recordings), Greg Davis and Sebastien Roux – Paquet Surprise (Carpark), Fessenden – Capture/Create (Entr'acte), Dropp Ensemble – Ingen Tid (Tonschacht).
2004: Pan American – Quiet City (Kranky), Greg Davis – Curling Pond Woods (Carpark), On – Your Naked Ghost Comes Back at Night (DSA).
2003: Dropp Ensemble – The Empire Builders (Longbox Recordings), Hat Melter – {Unknown Album} (Crouton).
Upcoming release: Pan American - White Bird Release LP/CD (Kranky), Dropp Ensemble - Safety LP/CD (Either/OAR), Haptic - The Medium LP/mp3 (FSS), Haptic/Cristal split 10" (Entr'acte), On, WORK (con-v).
For contact, booking and additional information, please email – stevenhess@fastmail.fm
Hello...Thank you very much..I know the band comments can be pretty cheesy, but we had to say Hi to all our new friends...since you and others gave us a chance...and we care very much about people giving us their time...thanks again
Steven Hess (Kranky, Mosz) : percussion, piano Sylvain Chauveau (FatCat, Type) : prepared guitar, piano Produced by HELGE STEN (aka Deathprod, member of Supersilent)
15 euros postpaid: TO BUY, PLEASE SEND A MESSAGE ON OUR MYSPACE PAGE.
Last copies available of this CD by ON: an american-french band who can count Christian Fennesz, Richard Chartier, Touch's label manager Mike Harding, and Michel Chion among their fans.
Recorded by Jeremy Lemos (collaborator of Sonic Youth, Smog, Jim O'Rourke, Iron & Wine, Town And Country).
"The results recall the more abstract moments moments of Main or Stars Of The Lid" (THE WIRE)
Hello Steven, I recall you being interested in getting a Stray Ghost C.D some time ago, you can get one from here.. http://www. normanrecords. com/records/99085 ...at a pretty low price, I wish I had some to send out but I only got a few which were sent out to reviewers... I have a full-length out sometime within the next month, if I get some I can try to send one to you.
When is the new Pan American release out, do you have any idea yet?
i have really enjoyed all these recordings that i've heard here that you've been involved with, and of course, love your duos with greg davis. you make a great sound. thanks for finding + adding me, i hope you enjoy mine as well.
