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Electric Leaves

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Member Since: 3/30/2005
Band Members: lukedavid ............................................................ .......................................... The Electric Leaves Collective : art emanuel - drums and percussion . chris ? . charley -- sax . nick -- guitar . mason -- bass and synth . jordi -- guitar organ squeezebox and itty bitty piano
Influences: The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, DJ Shadow, Broken Social Scene, Beck, The Mars Volta, Do Make Say Think, Pan, Sufjan Stevens
Sounds Like: the sound of someone walking around new york with a taperecorder.
Type of Label: Indie

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Acoustic Leaves

Acoustic Leaveswell--when i mentioned to friend jason that i'd be doing an acoustic set at teh mug he quickly quipped, "are you going to call it acoustic leaves?"i laughed. he laughed.and i said, "no....
Posted by Electric Leaves on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:37:00 PST

Uncertain

not sure whatll happen next with my music. like to have some sort of consistency, though. any ideas? written some sad acoustic numbers that i may track sort-of live. i'm starting to think maybe i'm be...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:37:00 PST

Sitting at Brewery

well what to say?sweet ol man sitting right next to me-- window btwn us. he's with pitcher 2 of bitter bitter ipa and cute little safeway novel. he's always here. in 40 years i'll be in that chair. be...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:48:00 PST

Nabokov, a little tinkering with an old friend, and the joys of frenchpressed coffee

couple of thoughts: just rereading some Nabokov commentary. his closest definition of art is beauty to pity. still sorting that one out. suppose i get it on some level. i can definitely i.d. the piti...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:00:00 PST

Downloading an Album

I think some would ask, "Why can't I just download a couple of the songs instead of the whole alubum?" Well, the "album" is quick-becoming a lost art. Suppose 40 yrs ago sweat little high teenagers'd ...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:12:00 PST

Album Notes: 1

Seems like one major priority in modern music is perfection-- crystal clear, larger-than-life punch, etc. I thought about this a lot while recording Apple. Thinking about my favorite music, I realized...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:41:00 PST

Apple

Hello there. it's been a long time coming. Apple is done. i had a lot go in lately that caused this delay, but I've finally posted some of the songs. please listen and let me know what you think. i ha...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:04:00 PST

InRainbows

new radiohead album out today. listened to the whole sweet-thing through on big headphones--that's the best way. they can do no wrong. it's beautiful and, well, mature sounding. it's odd--staring out ...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 01:46:00 PST

Two Things Done

Two Things Done: the Apple recording and Monday Bulletin.. I think it's safe to say that Monday Bulletin is officially done. It's so sad to me that the band broke at the one point when we were feeling...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:41:00 PST

Saxifrage

Update. Slept at the studio place with wife so we could look after the snickers-dog.   Woke up.   Yelled at neighboring dog for while, as it wouldn't stop barking its little head off. &...
Posted by Electric Leaves on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:33:00 PST