My Big Breakthe rollicking scrub

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today's track is made up entirely of samples of my own voice, played back on a synth and then dubbed onto tape and re-recorded

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premium mbb readers got a surprisingly crunchy weekly track, thoughts on how to shape your kitchen with your laughter, and a very special live recording from when I played a baby grand piano in a stately manor in Amsterdam last month ~

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My Big Breakpaint thinner punch from a styrofoam cup

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today's track features the now-gorgeously out-of-tune piano that lives in my girlfriend's sculpture studio - I didn't like playing it for a time but now it has, how do you say, character

My Big Breakcutting the last hour of the velvet

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today's track features the grand piano next to a coffee bar I've been playing every day since I arrived in Denmark (which I've unceremoniously lost access to on my last day in town, but that's another story).

My Big Breakit held high the martyrs

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today's track features an improvisation recorded in Denmark and audio captured on the lightly-sinking boat I wrote about last week (you can hear the phrase "some water got in" uttered aloud near the beginning, haha).

since I last wrote I've been to Germany and Amsterdam and back, where I saw a flaming branch dropped into fog and danced in an empty pool until late into the night and played a secret grand piano for a select audience late in the evening - living at the pace I nearly used to, internalizing that its still possible.

My Big Breaka ghost with its shoelaces tied together

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writing to you, incredibly, from Aarhus, a tidy, briny, beautiful place.

today's track is even gentler than usual. i remebered all of a sudden that space and emptiness are possible.

My Big Breakthe less of it

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Right off the bat I have to tell you: I was recently very directly exposed to COVID and I have to drop off the shows I was set to play in NYC this weekend. I was extremely looking forward to performing again, but it's way too much of a risk for me to come down there.

The Whatever's Clever showcase at the Broadway is still happening, though, and I urge you to go (vax'd and mask'd). Saturday's show is postponed until....further notice?

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today's newsletter is for paying subscribers - it includes big washes of synth swells, a rundown of just how great it felt to sing and sweat for a gathered crowd last weekend, and a picture of my big, beautiful birthday cake

When the drums came in it sounded so tremendous, bigger than I've ever heard it. I was beaming and singing, and then right on cue, at a painfully perfect moment in the song's crescendo, Liam turned on the fog and the lasers, which joined the already spinning disco ball. Like heaven opening, truly.

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My Big Breakever flawed, never ceasing

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today's track features some samples I made of the white upright piano I grew up playing which now lives comfotably next to a freeway in my sister's living room in California, you can hear the cars if you listen closely ~ the album art is a picture of a beached whale near the Marin headlands

I'm very happy to be putting on two shows this weekend:

My Big Breakfogged-out pacific vistas

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today's track is a tape fuzz warp zone that keeps threatening to go too far out of warbled tune

wanted to mention that I'm playing two GIGS this weekend and next in upstate NY

My Big Breakin the ear of the hearer

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today's track is a sweet little electric piano riff that sounds like it's been out water skiing too long.

coming to you from a trip out to see members of my family for the first time since 2019, a surreal place to be writing from.

My Big Breakthe harmonies hovered, a visible cloud

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today's track is a little wobbly piece of sun bleached video game music that never quite resolves

fun thing: just dropped some new merch! I made these very silly "I'd rather be listening to Cicada Waves" bumper stickers: