Paragraph Presents a CHIC PUNK party

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Su Kramer. Germany. 1978.

new CD info

we are in the studio working on our "2nd" full length CD. as of now, we have 1o potential songs in the works that you definitely have not heard yet, but...don't hold your breath...we are taking our time with this one...my gut is saying we will be done sometime in the winter. for now, we have put one of the demos ( Needs ) up on our Myspace. we really hope you are looking forward to the whole collection...love you!

Van Duzer Street Festival

bands will be playing from 4 Oclock to 7 Oclock. come and be entertained on the street...

Michael

Daniel

Joseph

Daniel

Joseph

Michael

one more Flyer

OPEN BAR from 8 to 9 and free tater tots with your drinks .. so ya know ..

more lyrics

Phil Collins

This song off Face Value is one of my favorite songs of all time. I can't tell you how many times I have listened to it and felt something completely new.
Click on the Phil Collins "face" up above to stream the track. If you love it as much as I do, go and buy or download the album.

paragraph

photo taken by Mike Shane

SELDA

this voice gets me everytime. SELDA.
if you see me around. ask me to burn you a copy of a CD of hers.

Matt Wilson

"Dan,

Here's my new song, Tuesday Weekend. I hope you enjoy it...See you later on tonight.

-Matt"

Matt Wilson is a wonderfully sincere, local artist here in Staten Island. You can find him playing bass in surf band Captain Ahab & The Sea Crackens...who have a new CD up on itunes.

Matt also playsa da bass in The Rabbits (who you would also love)
...if you missed the Rabbits / Paragraph set the other night...it's really okay...but you should have been there.

Don't forget Matt also plays in the Fire Monkeys. Don't forget Matt covers The Replacements. Don't forget Matt claims that he can take me in a Prince sing-off.

Obviously the dude keeps himself busy...it amazes us that he can find time to produce these musical gems. A new Matt Wilson solo song arrived in the mail the other day...this is the gem I speak of.

It is always fun to see Matt play in bands...he can be like a bull in a china shop...a man on a mission...but it is when he is by himself at an open mic or on his computer with Cool Edit Pro that you really get a taste of the lovable personality he possesses. A personality that sings and plays and everything else..Very genuine stuff.

This song has a very authentic feel to it..a little reminiscent of Brian* Wilson...with warm harmonies...modest tones...and a pretty ring-out..is it called a "ring-out"? I'm talking about the very last chord in the song.

...Tuesday Weekend also sits at just more than 1 minute in length.

Check it out below! I think you will love it as much as I do. Come see Matt play sometime soon!
www.myspace.com/theradiantradish

Tuesday_Weekend.mp3 - Matt Wilson

Niice Face

Daito Manabe got famous by making music with his special ‘face instrument’. Now he wired up his friends, so they have a band.

upper left: Muryo Honma
upper right:Setsuya Kurotaki,
lower left: Motoi Ishibashi
lower right: Seiichi Saito

Daito Manabe:Direction,programming and composition

supported by
Masaki Teruoka and Katsuhiko Harada: device
Taeji Sawai: sound design

old people & new music

this is just such a funny thing.

hey, you guys.
just throw this tune on and go clean your room or something.
take a shower maybe.
blast it and thank the universe for shit.
ok...
BREAK!

Hellhole Ratrace - Girls




Go team. We love you.

showshowshow

come enjoy yourself

C00L new SONG

Boys and Gurlis, we remixed a song of ours. You haven't heard any versions of it yet, but you will. This is pretty fresh.

coolupgrade.mp3 - PARAGRAPH

Neil Young

...so there is undoubtedly a whole lot of vocoder stuff everywhere. It's everywhere from Weezy to Kanyeezy to Kilgore Treezy is Deezy.

well...I think I may have just found something that has to do with the subject at hand. Props to discoworkout.com. I mean it's nothing crazy different, but it is a "vocoded" Neil Young...and I've never heard anything like this from him. The album is called TRANS.

...a 1982 failure.

AND there is a difference between auto-tune and vocoder. This is vocoder. Sorry.

here is a blurb....an interesting blurb...

“Neil Young found that when using a vocoder when communicating to his son (who was born with cerebral palsy), he was able to elicit a better response. The emotional power of this experiment shows in the lyrics, particularly with the lines “So many things still left to do / But we haven’t made it yet.”

“We R In Control” - Neil Young

I KNOW!!!!

SHOW!!

crying..

If you have ever seen David Lynch's Mulholland Drive, you may remember the scene in club Silencio when a female opera singer performs a Spanish version of Roy Orbison's Crying.

Well, first of all, this scene is rediculous..the movie as a whole is one of my favorites of all time.

What I want to point out here...and what blows my mind the most about this track...is that it is the exact take from the "audition" when David Lynch heard it for the first time...

The woman who sings the song is Rebekah Del Rio.

"When I met David (Lynch) that fateful morning I was not aware that he was recording my voice. I sang with all of my heart and soul and I left very shortly after. Little did I know that the recording would haunt David to the point of writing a special part in his then pilot, “Mulholland Drive”. It was such a thrill to receive the phone call from my faithful friend and agent, Brian Loucks at CAA while I was struggling in Nashville to say that David wanted me to fly to L.A. and film my part."
-Del Rio

click on the picture below to here the song...I hope you like it as much as I do...

music comp

Indamixx Laptop is First Pre-Configured Music Netbook, Running Linux, $499

Five hundred bucks. In music tech terms, that usually gets you, what, a single app bundle? Now, it can get you a whole computer, pre-loaded with a bunch of music software. It may not be as powerful as a modern laptop, but it’s also in a cute, smaller form factor you can keep everywhere in case inspiration strikes, or balance on the corner of your Steinway grand. Meet the Indamixx laptop. Whether you want one or not, it’s emblematic of the ongoing commoditization of laptop technology, with ever-cheaper, lower-power brains.

Highlights:

• Brains: 1.6Ghz Intel Atom CPU netbook (looks similar to the Asus, but it’s actually Sylvania)
• energyXT bundled: Runs energyXT, the awesome music production workstation with modular features and some unique editing capabilities – sort of the “indie” electronic music workstation of choice
• Full laptop-like specs: a full complement of I/O including 3 USB ports; an 80 GB hard drive (not bad for a machine this size!)
• Custom Linux distro + apps: Tons of pre-configured Linux music production software running on a custom distribution called “Transmission” – with Hydrogen Drums, Ardour DAW, DJ software Mixxx (that’s three x’s to Indamixx’s’s two – don’t ask), and lots of other lovely tools
• Sounds pre-loaded: 2900 drum sounds, 350 samples + scratches
• Import sessions: The new Ardour Xchange imports from your existing DAW (worth its own article, I think!)
• Broadcast your sets: Included Internet console for streaming your live gigs, etc.
• Hosts Windows VSTs: An included Windows-compatible host for your existing plug-ins
• Bundle: includes 1GB SD card, free carrying case, free US shipping, a t-shirt, and 30 days software support while you get it set up

$499 for the whole bundle – stuff like Ardour Xchange alone lists for US$75, energyXT is commercial, and you get these other goodies, as well (the memory card, case, etc.). So I think this is very competitively priced.

flyer

MONDAY NIGHT at The Annex in Manhattan.
we are playing with Like Trains & Taxis...good friends from New Jersey.

the show starts around 9 Oclock at night.

sshhhhhh...

we don't like to make fun of stuff too often but...

sometimes i can't believe songs..

i mean it's sort of obvious that the song is weak
but skip ahead to about 1:38
see if you can count more, but i believe there are 5 key changes during this chorus!



oh man!
get your laugh on.

as for paragraph - we've been working extra hard.
we've been practicing more and we're re-working new (and old!) songs.
but shhhhh... mad secrets.
keep it that way!

tell your friends,
P-gang

hey super model

mike made this of himself...

and this is a good song...

it's by Younger Brother.

an exgirlfriend tipped me on it.

don't let the intro turn you off.

be patient.

it's like an electronic country song.

mad unique like "unique new york"

keep pronouncing those vowels, baby.

All I Want (Original Mix) - Younger Brother