Category: Music

Side Two

A little over a month ago I released an Anderhill EP titled Coalescence. Today, I’m releasing Side Two, a second EP with the same basic vibe, a combination of ambient synths and minimalist drone-based beats.

It’s been fun to program some drums and I’ll likely do more of that up the road. But my next experimental electronic project will likely move away from drums and focus more on live sampling, something I haven’t done in a while. There is a lot of industrial, road, and city noise in my current location and I’m going to take my iPad with me on a walk to capture some of those sounds.

In the meantime enjoy this one. – dse

1995/96 Songs Coming Soon

I took a break from posting songs from my back catalog on my YouTube Channel a few months back. I thought I’d already taken some notebooks I needed up to Maine and was going to start back in when I moved. But I discovered my 1995/96 work is still with me in Tennessee.

I posted the first of 15-20 songs from 1995/96 to the YouTube Channel this morning. I’ll add a link to the list on my songs page once I post a second. In the mid-90s I moved from more traditional country and blues songwriting to more pop-oriented songs and melodies. An occasional blues or country song might have still slipped in, but pop and Americana dominated my writing for most of a decade starting in the mid 90s.

Take a listen and let me know what you think in the comments on YouTube. – dse

Current Projects in the Works

So, I’m still stuck in Tennessee, but I’m making fair use of my time. I have a few projects in the works. Here’s the nuts and bolts:

  1. Cult Boy: I did a complete rewrite of my book A Train Called Forgiveness. It’s been stripped back to a novella and renamed. I’m currently doing a final edit and will proofread once more after that.
  2. Mercy, Mercy: This is in brainstorming mode. A potential novella about living through having a stillborn child. The book would have two first-person narrators, the father, and the unborn/spirit daughter.
  3. 1995/96 Songs: I’ve posted selections from my older song catalog up until 1994 on my YouTube channel. I thought my 1995/96 songs were already in Maine but I found them here. I’ll start posting some tracks in May. I might have to rewrite a few because I can’t find any recordings.
  4. Glitsch: My new website for brutalist and glitchy poetry and photos and music. Check it out at glitcsh.com.
  5. Anderhill: I’ve got a few tracks in the works on my iPad.

That’s it for now. I’m staying busy creatively. But I’ll also need to do some travel and other projects in the near future. – dse

Glitch of G_d

So, I know I said I was going to post less, and I am, but I just released another Anderhill track. It often happens after releasing an EP or an album that I try to do something opposite. This is my first pure noise release. It’s called Glitch of G_d.

At nearly 11-minutes long, the track feels like a 60-cycle hum with 50bpm industrial breath. If you listen closely, you may hear the sounds of cooing pigeons and bagpipes in the distance amongst the digital noise. It often feels like music is trying to break through, but it can’t quite find its way out of the glitch.

I used a lot of 8-bit digital sounds and sound effects and piled on the echo and reverb during mixdown, then I used some filter effects on the final mix. The end result: Glitch of G_d. – dse

Coalescence

New music from Anderhill, Coalescence has a vibe that is reminiscent of 2019’s Time & Texture and 2022’s Absence, with a new and unique vibe of its own.

The EP has a meditative quality. I make use of minimalist drum samples. The odd tracks have custom drum programming. For the even tracks I chose random drum loops. The sound is definitely darker than Time and Texture, but it also has a lightness about it. I invite you to take a listen.

Also, check out my new site, G L I T C . S H. You’ll find a combination or poetry, art, and music that uses both glitch and brutalism. – dse

Introducing Songs from Big Yellow

A couple of months ago I bought an 80’s style boombox. It’s a big yellow Aiwa. Why? Because I have a ton of old cassette and CD demo recordings that I want to share on my YouTube Channel. Introducing Songs from Big Yellow.

I’ve already posted a review of the boombox and about three or four old demo recordings from 1986 and 1987. I have a lot more demos to post from big yellow in the future ranging from the late 80s into the 2000s.

The demos represent recordings with my older brother, Paul Erickson, my younger brother, Pete Erickson, and friends like JB Taylor, Mike Schecnk, John Hauge, and Laddie Ray Melvin. I might post a few solo demos as well.

If you go to my YouTube, you can check out the whole playlist. Expect that list to grow for weeks and months to come. – dse