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Froseph

...meet you under the stars...

About Me

"Harmonizing surprising vocal stylings with a dynamic assortment of instrumental tactics, Froseph takes both an aggressive and soft spoken approach with the songs on “Deep Breath.” It's both slow and fast-paced, smooth and rough, coping with deep-rooted insecurities and confronting a long-avoided past of sexual abuse, denial and their affects on everyday interactions while simultaneously constructing a sense of optimism and buoyancy. Recorded over several months in his basement bedroom with a laptop and a microphone and packaged with a plastic-free case that was hand-letterpressed in our garage."
from www.crimethinc.com
I've written a zine called Twinkle Pig since 2003. The 6th issue (number 5) is now available! It's the smallest, cutest, classiest Twinkle Pig yet. At a steady 16 mini pages, it's blockprinted cover includes a handmade one inch button along with a love story.
The 5th issue (number 4) was released in May of 2006. Twinkle Pig number 4 is an audio zine with Froseph's 2nd full length album included in the inside back cover. It is a concept album about the physical, emotional, and spiritual evolution out of civilization.
If you're interested in getting a copy of Deep Breath ($8), Twinkle Pig number 5 ($2), and/or Twinkle Pig number 4 ($5-10 sliding scale) send me a message. Twinkle Pig number 3 was also an audio zine with a Froseph cd, but they're almost all gone for now. There's also a Twinkle Pig number 3.5: Bikes not Cabs ($1) written as a reaction to the CrimethInc. pamphlet titled "Wasted Indeed: Anarchy and Alcohol". (http://www.crimethinc.com/tools/downloads/zines.html)

I really like:
redefining the function of things, verbal consent, CrimethInc., green anarchy, street art, wild sumac tea, food not bombs, hidden caves, magical trees, secret cafés, ridin' my one-speed sapphyre (r.i.p.), having ridiculous crushes, hitchhiking, street performing, capture the flag, networking, screenprinting, tango danicing, trading, really really free markets, garageband, sewing, latsch island, the mississippi river.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/31/2006
Band Website: crimethinc.com
Band Members: me and you
Influences: i've been influenced (not necessarily musically) by: the green lantern cabaret (r.i.p.) mike bird, uke of (phillips) (spaces corners county), sandman, regina spektor, radiohead, the blackthorns, casandra (cassiopeia), mr. awesome, tyler, roxanne, julia, katie mae, cara, pfm, brandon, himes, catharsis, kickball, requiem, renée, will ridenour, dr. bob, matty popchart, animal collective, joanna newsom, bjork, mirah, ivan okay, charlie parr, rachel reis, jolie holland, baby gramps, mark d., polka dot dot dot, yann tiersen, manu chao, dj wigwam, pink fever, megan nelson, david sandstrom, a silver mt. zion, the knotwells, semke, courtney, good morning, the spectacle, kimya dawson, the cycle circus, rob reid, zegota, godspeed you! black emperor, toad the telephone terrorist, dead prez, onyx of olympia, woodcat, straight to your brain, the office, bitch, this bike is a pipe bomb, squirrel nut zippers, dave brubeck, derrick jensen, southerly, nina simone, arrested development, wax wings & headless kings, the pasties, ümlaut, tosca tango orchestra, labrynht (goldstar), the leona joyce, slow and steady circle of death, miss rockaway armada, infernal noise brigade, carrboroians, greesboroians, chris koza, ross cowman, dreamland faces, and other famous people.
Sounds Like: a natural disater

one review said "square dancing gone hip".
Record Label: CrimethInc.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Hitchhiking Zine! The Adventures of Thumb and Foot!

Casandra and I have finished a zine about our hitchhiking adventures from the summer. We traveled 2,000 miles with the Up & Clean bus from Salem, OR to Winona, MN. Then we hoped off the bus and hitchh...
Posted by Froseph on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:18:00 PST

TWINKLE PIG .3.5 ZINE-BIKES NOT CABS

i thought i'd put this on here. it's the text to a zine i wrote 2 january's ago. recently i was very embarrassed about it, and now i'm less so. a lot has happened since i wrote this.TWINKLE PIG number...
Posted by Froseph on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:50:00 PST