July 5th at Greenhouse

All Ages

Magazines from 1999

I got a dozen of magazines from 1999-2002 from this man Mark, who was very active in bay area scene back in the day and now hides in this amazing place in Santa Barbara.

One of the magazines has an ad from Secretly Canadian, which i love.
I don't know any of the artists in the ad, probably they all broke up and started a new band or got actual jobs.
the contact says -------@indiana.edu
so I am guessing someone started this label when he or she was a college student.

it's taken a good decade to become what it is now for SC.
I also saw a lot of bands that have been around since late 90's.
This is very encouraging, it's important to sit on the same stone for 3 years.
I will make Half Yogurt a 10-year project and put out adventurous folk folks and porn! 2019! I will be 34.

Just made a twitter account!

now i have flickr, facebook, twitter, myspace, mixi (japanese myspace), and this blog.
A lot of musicians have last FM and some other music promotion accounts too, how do they find time to play music?

TWITTER.COM/HALFYOGURT

thanks

Ed Askew joins Half Yogurt !!!!!!!!!

(ed photographed in 70's)

Half Yogurt is ecstatic to announce Ed Askew will join Half Yogurt for his next release tentatively titled "So".

I have been a huge fan of his for a while since I found him through Forcefield PR (Daniel Gill).

All Music Guide explains much better than I do, here it is;

An enigma even by the ultra-obscure standards of ESP-Disk Records, next to nothing is known about outsider folksinger Ed Askew. Although Askew has been recording songs since the late '60s, only one album has ever been released, 1969's Ask the Unicorn. A solo recording, the album features Askew accompanying himself on the ten-stringed lute-like acoustic instrument the tiple. A Latin instrument Askew discovered as a teenager because his ukulele-playing father owned one, the tiple quickly became a passion forAskew. While studying art at Yale in the mid-'60s, Askew began performing at local poetry readings, and soon incorporated the tiple into his act. Because the tiple is a difficult instrument, with the player having to press down hard on three tightly wound strings at once to get any sound, Askew's early material has a unique and oddly strained vocal quality that comes from the difficulty of singing while playing such a demanding instrument. After graduating from Yale and getting a teaching job in New York, Askew sent a demo tape toBernard Stollman of the ultra-noncommercial ESP-Disk, possibly the most legendary indie label of the '60s; with his unique but attractive sound, Askew was quickly invited to record an album for the label. Easily one of the most bizarre and wonderful albums ever released by ESP-Disk, Ask the Unicorn is a psychedelic folk masterpiece, like the Holy Modal Rounders jamming with Alexander "Skip" Spence. A second album, Little Eyes, was recorded for ESP-Disk in 1970, but although it got as far as a test pressing, the label was beginning to run out of money and the album was never released. In most cases, that would be that, but while pursuing a career as a painter and poet, Askew sporadically kept up his performing career in New Haven and Boston during the '70s. Though he has never released anything commercially since Ask the Unicorn, his homemade tapes are traded on the fringe music underground. His recent music has included harpsichord, synthesizers, and drum machines along with guitar, piano, and his beloved tiple, but other than the more modern instrumentation, Askew's songs remain the same: quirky, but surprisingly accessible, with an engaging melodic sense and emotional, thoughtful lyrics that belie the easy "freaky outsider" tag that might otherwise get stuck upon him.

(from All Music Guide)

Half Yogurt. Songwriter labyrinth.

make him say h a l f y o g u r t

i am at Cecil Hotel in LA right now as I type.

Tennie and I are staying at this cheap hotel for 2 nights while we play 2 shows here (one that was last night at Origami recs, tonite at Hotel Cafe).

I had to make a reservation through hotels.com. while talking to an operator, he goes

"I need your email address to send you a confirmation."

"okay, my email address is halfyogurt@gmail.com. H A L F, like 50%, and Yogurt, Y O G U R T"

"Excuse me? Half Yogurt?"

"Yes, Half Yogurt, HALF and YOGURT, no space in between"

"okay, so, HALF YOGURT, H A L F Y O G U R T"

"correct, at gmail.com."

"halfyogurt@gmail.com, thank you sir."

It was nothing but pleasant to have him say Half Yogurt over and over.

Origami Records in Echo Park used to be a label.

Now they are a store of only new vinyls.

We played at upstairs loft part of the store, 20ft high.

they had Fender portable PA system, it sounded great, i might prefer those to small Mackie or JBL.

I met Sean and Brendan who work there. Sean turned out to be friends with Jessica who I know from Seattle.

they are both into vinyls like their customers. 

I secretly think this vinyl trend is the industry's plot. not that I have anything against Vinyl lover but I can't stand that people treat CDs like shit. 

I love CDs, I grew up with CDs. it's small but physical enough to be "an object".

you can fix your makeup with CD. it's playable on various hardwares.

neither CD nor vinyl are new things, they have a sort of nostalgia. i guess that's partly why people love vinyl which is an older format. 

touring with the Naked Hearts has started

they flew into SFO and we are playing 6 more shows with them.
the Naked Hearts is a group from NY. Amy is from California originally. She plays guitar and sings.
Noah is from St. Louis and plays drums even though he is a guitar teacher.
Tennessee and I are enjoying their music and accompany alot, they are huge in Panama, did you know that?

I am so excited to take them to NW, hope my friends can show them good times!

オレゴン州ポートランドより

２月に買った９月８日ヴァンクーバー発日本行きのチケットを７月１４日に代えるのに一苦労した。多分明日には変更間両予定なんだけど、ここまでくるのに通話総計　６時間　は使ったと思う。恐るべし、日本航空。

デニスドリスコルのリリースの方は多分今月末には出来上がる予定。HY一作目と同じデザインなので、これまた半透明です。ハーフヨーグルトのためにデニスが書き上げて録音、その後オリンピアはケーレコードのマーク　グリアがマスタリングしたものです。

オンラインの流通をインサウンドというアメリカ一番大手のところに聞いてみたら、スムーズにオッケーが来たので、通販の方はカバーできました。今はまだ個人で受け付けていますので、このブログの右側からどうぞ。

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アメリカ西海岸ツアーいよいよ始まりました。今はポートランドにいます。

アメリカに戻って以来、またバーガーが好きになりまして、さっきもバーガービル（バーガー村というような意味です）にいってイチゴミルクシェーク＆クラシックバーガー＆フライドアスパラガスをいただいてきました。

昨日のシアトル公演はなかなかでした。

ウィスキーを７、８杯ロックで飲んで、９杯目は床に落としました。

明日はヒッピーの町　ユージーン　に向かう予定です。