New track on Wrong Division Complilation

I have a new track on Wrong Division's Summer Solstice 2013 comp, which you can check out here:

http://wrongdivision.bandcamp.com/album/summer-solstice-2013

The comp features a number of friends, and I also play on another track, Johnny DeBlase Quartet's "Composites."

Here's my solo piece, "Bruxing," which was recorded by Zachary James Watkins in Santa Cruz this past April while I was touring alongside Ava Mendoza's Unnatural Ways:

Sound American

I'm very honored to be in the current issue of the great online journal, Sound American. This edition focuses on Philadelphia and features a number of my friends and colleagues, surveying the music of our city. My feature is an audio interview conducted by Nate Wooley, and this short write up:

http://soundamerican.org


Also - I recently remembered that this track from the same session that I recorded In White Sky was featured on a compilation tape. Download it for free!

New track posted on Soundcloud!

There's a new Archer Spade recording posted on Soundcloud from the first recording session we did back at the end of last summer. The piece is called, "So Timid Persons Can Kill Their Own Fowl."

Check it out over here:

http://archerspademusic.com/media

Recording from Performer's Forum

Here's a recording of the last piece I played at Performer's Forum in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. It was really loud and I managed to shatter one of the glasses. Sorry about that guys...

Nick Millevoi and Weasel Walter at Freedom Garden

Nick Millevoi and Weasel Walter at Freedom Garden

New music

We're getting closer to the release of the new Many Arms album and now you can listen to a track from the album up at the AV Club's site over here.

We also were reviewed last week by the Philadelphia City Paper.

We're really pumped. If you're in Philly, be sure to come out on March 23 for our record release show!

Here's the sweet flier:

This week, Johnny DeBlase released the digital version of his new quartet album, Composites. I'm really proud of how this recording came out and I think Johnny wrote some really great music, so please check it out. You can download a copy of it for $5 from Johnny's Bandcamp page or get a physical copy from us on the Many Arms tour.

Stream Composites:

After my solo set last week at the Highwire Gallery, I sat in with Flying Sutra on a few really fun improv pieces. George got a great recording and they're up on Soundcloud now:

South Fallsburg Bulgar

A few weeks back, Dan Blacksberg and I recorded a version of "South Fallsburg Bulgar." Dan is a masterful Klezmer player and is leading the way on this really cool tune. I'm going to keep on Dan about teaching me a bunch of tunes so we can get our "Archer Spade goes Klezmer" series together.

Year end status update

As the year is coming to a close, I'm coming close to finishing up a lot of projects that I'd like to let everyone know about.

Last week, Many Arms played our last show of the year at Elena's in Philadelphia (a show organized by the wonderful Stephen Buono and promoted by Fire Museum). It was a really great show, and great to play alongside Little Women, Banned Books, and Split Red, who debuted their new singer Justin Duerr.

Many Arms probably won't be playing for a few months as we're getting our upcoming touring schedule together. We'll be touring when our new album is released and hitting a healthy chunk of the US in late March and April and heading to Europe in May. Here's an idea of what to expect:


 


Last week, Electric Simcha recorded our new album with Colin Marston at Menegroth: The Thousand Caves. It sounds amazing! We still have to find a label to release it, so no details yet on when you'll be hearing it.

Next weekend I'll be recording a new solo guitar album with Eric Carbonara. It's going to be quite a bit different from Black Figure of a Bird. I'm really excited to get all the new music (and some that is less new) recorded and my neighbors are really excited that I'll stop practicing so loudly for a while.

In January, Archer Spade will be pretty active. We're heading to California to work with Roscoe Mitchell and our sax-friend Drew Cecatto to work on a piece that Thomas Buckner is commissioning Roscoe Mitchell to write for our trio. While we're out there, we'll be playing a concert with Ken Ueno and Matt Ingalls at CNMAT. When we return, we'll be debuting our new duo piece, So Timid Persons Can Kill Their Own Fowl, at a free show at the Rotunda in Philly. Two days later, we'll be finishing up with our Kickstarter campaign (see the video two posts below!).

In late January, Eh? Records will be releasing Strange Falls, the debut album by the trio of Alban Bailly, Joe Mofett, and myself. I'm looking forward to some shows we'll be playing together in February!

It looks like the debut album by the Johnny DeBlase Quartet will be getting released early in 2011. I'm looking forward to having the details on that ready to share. Soon!

Now check out this great cat:


 


 See you soon!

Many Arms: New album, Beyond Territories, to be released on T...

Many Arms: New album, Beyond Territories, to be released on T...: We're excited to announce that our new album, Beyond Territories, is going to be released this spring on Tzadik, one of our absolute favorit...

Double Indemnity

Many Arms has finished our new album, Syzygy, which we recorded with Eric Carbonara. It sounds really great, it's three long-burn tracks. We're super-stoked. We've got some exciting news coming up about the album really soon!

The other day I returned from a really fun tour with Hyrrokkin. This was their first tour and I'm glad they had me along. They wail and they're some of the coolest dudes. They've got a tape out on New Atlantis and you can check it out here: http://hyrrokkin.bandcamp.com. 

Here's a recording of an improvisation I did at AS220 in Providence from tour:

 Double Indemnity by Nick Millevoi 

More soon!

Many Arms site

There's a new Many Arms page up at http://www.manyarmsband.com. There's some new info on there and we're looking forward to recording our new album with Eric Carbonara next week. 3 long tracks!

A few things I'm excited about right now:

Many Arms will debut a set of all new music at Johnny Brenda's on August 3, when we open for Bardo Pond and the William Hooker String Trio.

My good friends Not the Wind, Not the Flag from Toronto will be playing at the Highwire Gallery on August 20 and I'll be playing solo and debuting some new pieces. Traits, the new duo of Sebastian Petsu and Ben Remsen will be opening.

I'm curating a 12-hr concert with my friend Justin Gibbon at Sinergy Space in Kensington on September 17. The lineup is looking pretty amazing so far. More info will be coming shortly.

Eh? Records will be releasing an album with myself, Joe Moffett, and Alban Bailly in January. They released the great Psychotic Quartet album a few months ago that everyone is talking about.

More show details in the "Upcoming shows" section!

My favorite song of the day:

Make A Rising

There's a new Make A Rising EP available over at makearising.com. We worked on writing and rehearsing this music for over a year, practicing 3 times a week most weeks before going into the studio last February to record the basic tracks. Since then, Jesse has been working on producing it, adding tons of synths, vocals, percussion, and other instruments and now it's finally finished.

Jesse moved to LA last March to work for Adventure Time and we haven't played since. I'm not sure what Make A Rising will do or be in the future, but these recordings stand as a great studio statement on what we were. Before I joined the band, Make A Rising were my favorite band and I think the second MAR album, Infinite Ellipse, is one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded, so it's totally my honor to finally have the music we worked on together released. Someday, maybe we'll work together on a triple album.