Updates

So I'm sure as anyone who is reading this has heard, Still Time's last show will be next May. Probably not forever, there will definitely be some reunion shows down the line, but at least for a couple years that will be the last show. For me that's led to quite a few changes over the last 6 months. I am now living in Oakland, back in school finishing my bachelor's in music, gigging in the bay area, working on a new collective original music project, and trying to find a job to pay the bills. So it's been a pretty crazy whirlwind, but I am very much looking forward the music collaborations I am currently working on. I am going to make a strong effort to have at least one weekly blog update, so people that are interested can know what's going on in my musical life.

I have started work on, I wouldn't call a solo project, because it is going to be much more collective than that. It's going to involve a lot of different players of which I am merely one cog in the wheel. I will be a big part of organizing the recording, performance, and promotion aspects. But this is not going to be "The Paul Smith-Stewart Free Jazz Experiment Project Vol.XXI", I'm just facilitating a group of musicians coming together for a common idea/concept. This WILL be recorded on analog tape, it WILL be pressed to vinyl (it will be available in digital form as well), and there will be at least one performance, most likely in Marin County, but ideally I'd like to do a show in Marin and SLO but I'll have to see if that's going to make sense financially and logistically. My goal is to have it recorded and have a performance towards the end of 2012, so we'll see how that goes. I also bought my domain name (www.paulsmithstewart.com) but at this point do not have the money or personal skill to build the website, however the website will be operational before the album comes out, but for the mean time this blog will be my main means of communication and updates.

Whew, that was a lot of words. If you made it through all of that I now reward you with this kick ass song I heard at this amazing bar (they have a hi fi stereo system and only spin vinyl records) the other evening.