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East Ghost West Ghost

About Me

CD available on Itunes, CD Baby. Fun instrumental music, free of struggle........................................It's Rob from Eggs, Grenadine, Fulton Lights, Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers, Stick Insect, The Stevensons, The Shot Heard Round the World, AbdoMen, Viva Satellite, Said and Done, Justine, Greenhouse, The Stand, Rockless Monster, and who played trombone once in The Apples in Stereo, once with the Wedding Present, also once with the Faith Healers..................................................... .......................................... About me: I like recording music and reading TapeOp magazine. Im a huge public radio enthusiast, and I work at WNYC as an engineer for the shows Soundcheck, Spinning on Air, and Selected Shorts. ............................................................ ......... People who have played instruments on this record: Stick Insect, Amy Kohn, Ethan Donaldson, David Garland, Stewart Anderson, and Jen Terrell.

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Member Since: 26/01/2006
Band Website: www.convolutedthinkers.com
Band Members: Rob Christiansen only
Influences: Tom Robbins, Ken Nordine, Cornelius, Phillip Glass, Apples in Stereo, Perry and Kingsley, Van Dyke Parks, a Hawk and a Hacksaw, Charles Ives, The Dirty Projectors, and the album, Here Come the Warm Jets.
Sounds Like: Irksome, catchy, insrtumental jams
Record Label: TET
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

East Ghost West Ghost on "Soundcheck" - WNYC

Check me out on WNYC this Monday! The show, Soundcheck, hosted by John Schaefer, is doing a segment on rockers with beards (of all the ridiculous things to finally get me on the radio), and I'm featur...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:38:00 GMT

Tim Fite sampled me!!!

Hey everybody. The brilliant and perplexing artist, Tim Fite, based a song on his new record almost entirely on samples from the East Ghost West Ghost song, Whistle and Water. His song is called Yeste...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:29:00 GMT

The album

Hey nice people. We're busy working up the final packaging, and then it'll be fully out in a proper sense. Meanwhile, I'm working on a film score for Christian Bruno. Come to the Stick Insect show at ...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:24:00 GMT

Any day now with the album, in case you were wondering.

Yes! I have the CDs back from the plant. They look good. The artwork is all done and is being sent to the silk-screeners. Then I will fold and cut and glue for a long time. Then they will be availabl...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:30:00 GMT

EGSG: crucial album status update

The album's done. The artwork is almost finished. The actual pressing is a few weeks off, but I'll have some CDR copies in Athens to give away. If you happen to be there, stop me for one. The password...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Aug 2006 05:50:00 GMT

New Gazetteers Album and other news

Hey, the new Gazetteers album is out just in time for the Athens Popfest. Also, we had a pretty good Fulton Lights show last Sunday at the Knitting Factory tap bar. I played sampler and mixed the band...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:43:00 GMT

EGWG update and "Shot Heard Round the World"

Hey, I haven't checked back with the Myspace for a while -- you still here? Good. In the last few weeks I've mixed most of the rest of the EGWG stuff. There are a few more things that aren't quite the...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 18:46:00 GMT

Mixed - Recording geekout entry 1 of n

Hey, I mixed half of the songs on Wednesday with the extremely even-tempered Mitch Rackin at his venerable Tone Float studio in Chinatown, NYC. I got the mixes home and they sounded really good. He's ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 15:54:00 GMT