Rob Bochnik

Blowing Out the Cobwebs is now available at Road Records in Dublin, CD Baby , Maximum Underground in the Czech Republic, and through The Frames website, The Frames merch counter and Swell Season merch counter while on tour.
When I was in college, I played in a band called Garden Bower with my best friend from childhood, he still plays music with his own group Frank Tribes and has a new record out now called "Gallery". My friend Dave Christensen formed Garden Bower in 1991 and asked myself and Frank to join. Dave still plays music and has a record out called "The Bosom and the Pool". While in college, I also played in a group called The Butchershop Quartet with Dylan Posa , Rob Sullivan and Dan Sullivan . We took the "Rite of Spring" by Igor Stravinsky and arranged it, in its entirety, for rock band: two guitars, bass and drums. It has been recorded and fully scored out. While all this was happening, I had the pleasure and honor to work at Electrical Audio , a truely amazing and unique recording studio, the best in the world in my opinion. There I helped construct and maintain the studios. I also had the privelege of recording some amazing bands there and meeting some amazing musicians and friends. I worked there for about 8 years before I was asked to join The Frames in 2003. The Frames have finished "The Cost" and has been released world-wide, available on ANTI records. In the meantime I have finished a record of my own songs, songs that have been kicking around for a while now. "Blowing Out the Cobwebs" is my first official solo project record.
Other projects that I am or have been involved with as a:
Musician: The Cake Sale , The Swell Season , Nina Nastasia .
Recording Engineer (tracking and mixing):
Once Soundtrack */ "You Ain't Going Nowhere" I'm Not There Soundtrack/ The Frames: Setlist, Fake single (first radio), Sideways Down single*/ Raus: Sramy/ The Coldspoon Conspiracy: Plays Well with Others/ Smog: Rain on Lens/ Neil Michael Hagerty: Plays That Good Old Rock and Roll, Neil Michael Hagerty**/ A Drag City Super-session: Tramps, Traitors and Little Devils/ Nad Navillus: Iron Night*/ Glen Hansard: Songs Ohia split 7"/ Descendro Allegro: Dance Against the Man/ The Butchershop Quartet: The Rite of Spring/ Garden Bower: In the Now, demos various/ Plush: Fed */ Gastr del Sol: Upgrade & Afterlife**
Tracking Engineer:
Cheap Trick: Special One**/ The Frames: Burn The Maps*
Mix Engineer:
Once Soundtrack/ The Dudley Corporation: Year of the Husband*/ Barry McCormack: Last Night As I Was Wandering/ Son Seals: Deluxe Edition**
Assistant Engineer:
Zwan: Mary Star of the Sea/ Koko Taylor: Royal Blue/ Superchunk: Come Pick Me Up/ Cheer Accident: Trading Balloons/ 8 Bold Souls: Last Option
Tape Operator:
Shellac: 1000 Hurts
* denotes work on some but not all tracks on the album
** denotes work on one track