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About Me

"One Lit Window EP"
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Much love to everyone listening to the One Lit Window EP. It's passed the 4000 file downloads mark. Many, many thanks to Andy Bernick @ Richmond County Archives , Alex @ Milieu blog , Bulut @ Modern Music blog , Netwaves DJs & Radio Scorpio 106FM , The Half Mile , MP3blog.ch , and friendly listeners on Myspace, Archive.org, and Last.fm. Two Dry Bones EP (RERnet02) will be out sometime this year. Seven more tracks of home recorded post-rock.
Bands who love the Swirlies would be wise to check out the call for entries for an upcoming tribute on the Reverse Engine netlabel. The deadline for submissions is July 31, 2008.
TST COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY
06/2008 Dave is currently scoring the Drifter Pictures feature film "Presence" . TST has a couple tracks coming out on comps soon, but major recording is on hold until the Fall.
04/2008 Created 8 samples to be used as source material for the Soundz From Nowhere compilation 8.ight Volume 2.
03/2008 Original music composed for the short film Dover Beach, directed by Carl Indriago.
08/2006 One Lit Window EP is released as RER05. Available for free download in the Reverse Engine netlabel collection on Archive.org. Track Listing: Seaport Town, Heavy News, Don't Be A Stranger, Three Point Turn (Mono Version), Cold Valves (For Kazu and Alain), Passing On The Stairs, Noticeably Ill (feat. Mark Carpenter).
12/2005 "Bruxists Revolt! (Temporo-mandibular Jam)" appears on V/A - Love & Scientific Communication, Vol. 2 (Richmond County Archives, RCA008).
09/2005 Original music composed for the short film Wading In The Fog, filmmaker Eve Moon's contribution to the School of the Art Insitute of Chicago's Cities Unbound .
08/2005 "Guitar Improvisation", an early version of the unreleased TST song "blanket", appears on V/A - Archive Recordings - Volume 1, along with a slew of other songs recorded on site at Mark Stephen Johnson's Pacific Gap Folk Music Center.
07/2005 Original music composed for the short film Lonely Pac-Man (Dir: Eve Moon).
06/2005 "Don't Be A Stranger" appears on V/A - Love & Scientific Communication, Vol. 1 (Richmond County Archives, RCA004).
02/2002: elevator to the stars/ The Moth Pan split CD-R. (Reverse Engine, RER03 - OOP)
04/2002: Original music composed for the short film Goodbye (Wri/Dir: Rose O'Leary, Cinematography: Justin Taber & Ariana Delawari).
12/2001: Original music featured in a short film by Rebekah Wright.
04/2001: First appearance (as elevator to the stars) on V/A - A Little Bedroom Rawkenroll CDR (Reverse Engine, RER01 - OOP).
TST's official mascot, Mister Romeo .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/17/2005
Band Website: davemh.com
Band Members: The Starry Tides is film composer Dave Merson Hess, and Jess Roberts of The Fourth Circuit & La Jecca... Past and present TST collaborators include the following talented people: Justin Duryee-Taber (The Moth Pan, ex-An Ideal For Living, ex-Deafwing), Jeff Lee (Good Old Neon, Bang Bang Shoot Shoot, Hot Ensign, ex-Up Up Down Down), Scotty "Hi-Fi" Kramer (my favorite producer), Mark Carpenter (Striped Shirt Math Team, Cat League, Digital Softcore Records), Jason Perez (ex-Carta), Kent Conrad (novelist and some-time glam rock microstar), and Nick Papac (ex-Deafwing; distinguished professor of experimental sounds...much love always).
Influences: songstress-composer dorothy merson, j.l.r., fellow kscr alums, the velvet f-ing underground, lee perry, u.s. maple, gastr del sol, david grubbs, the swirlies, jackie mittoo, my bloody valentine, the wooden stars, the blue nile, mr. curtis mayfield, tara jane o'neil, this heat, pavement, the soft boys, m gira/angels of light, sonic youth, ganger, califone, captain beefheart, pixies, american analog set, sparklehorse, minutemen, kenneth patchen, yo la tengo, brian eno, braniac, luis bunuel, matmos, boards of canada, macha, storm and stress, owls, blonde redhead, mercury rev, hood, nick drake, paddy mcaloon/prefab sprout, kevin coyne, mouse on mars, stereolab, alan goraguer, xtc, mark carp/digital softcore recordings, good old neon, top critters
Sounds Like: sleepytime music hour, unicorn porn, the mcms family partial song jamboree, elevator to the stars (an early incarnation of TST), the moth pan, mogwai, fridge, broken social scene, bedhead, ida, yo la tengo, l'altra, notwist, cluster, couch, slint, early day miners, test tone channel, brian and chris, pepito, pinback, kill me tomorrow, deafwing, golden creme homo twin
Record Label: Reverse Engine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Scoring the Drifter Pictures feature "Presence"...

TST recording is on hold until the Fall. I am currently focusing all of my musical efforts on writing the score to Presence, a truly unusual feature directed by Bryan Kramer and p...
Posted by The Starry Tides on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:04:00 PST

Holy Calibre remixes TST!

We're very stoked to anounce that our friends Holy Calibre have remixed "Noticeably Ill", track 7 on the One Lit Window EP. My ISP's upload speed has been horrible lately, but I will upload it as...
Posted by The Starry Tides on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:58:00 PST

Reverse Engine netlabel partners with Soundz From Nowhere netlabel

Reverse Engine Records is working on some awesome projects with the excellent Luxembourg-based netlabel Soundz From Nowhere. SFN000 is run by Victor from sug(r)cane, and the label has put out more tha...
Posted by The Starry Tides on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:48:00 PST

curating V/A "Songs About Art & Artists"

I'm curating a compilation called "Songs About Art & Artists", which will be a freely downloadable, viral mp3 release available this Summer. I've invited some of my favorite songwriters and experi...
Posted by The Starry Tides on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:37:00 PST

TST recording

TST's 2nd EP, "Two Dry Bones", is currently in the recording stage. It's stylistically all over the place, and I'm very excited at how things are coming along. The current track list includes a k...
Posted by The Starry Tides on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST