Dear Internet:

Here’s a last-minute reminder that we will be hitting the road this weekend and may be coming to a venue near you…

Friday, September 11th:

We will be at Artmosphere in our ‘other’ hometown – Lafayette, LA with Smiley With a Knife and ImagineIAM.

Flyer 9-11-09

Saturday, September 12th:

Check us out at Notsuoh in Houton, TX with Smiley With a Knife, Motion Turns It On and Margot.  This show is all-ages.

Flyer 9-12-09

Also, check out in this month’s Offbeat Magazine for an interview with A Living Soundtrack on page 12.  Here’s the digital version.

Thanks & see ya at the shows…..

-n

Internet:

We will be playing with The Octopus Project (Austin, TX) at One Eyed Jack’s on Friday, August 7th.  I assure you it will be an awesome show.  We’ve also got some new material that we will be testing out on your ears.  Tickets can be purchased in advance through TicketWeb.

Check our our other show listings for upcoming shows in New Orleans, Lafayette and Houston.  See ya soon!

-n

ALS+SWAK spring tour

Whew!  What a run!  It seems like we’ve been nonstop since we got out of the studio at the beginning of the year.  We’ve had a great time though and chances are, if you are reading this, you had something to do with it – thank you!  So why the hell are we “taking a break” now when we have so much momentum…?

We’ve got to finish the album.  As a lot of you know, we are currently mixing it at our home studio – so far so good, but it is a slow process when you mix in one or two shows a week (many out of town) plus rehearsals plus everything else in our lives.  It will be nice to make the record our primary focus again.

We’ve also got some new tunes in the works that we just haven’t had time to finish preparing for y’all until now.  Hopefully when we start playing shows again Septermber-ish, you’ll be hearing songs like Universal Calendar and The Colorblind Surgeon Seeks A Cure.

Stay in touch and check back soon – don’t forget to sign up for our email list if you haven’t already. We’ll be posting some goodies up here to keep you going until we have either an album in your hands or a show in front of your face.  Stay tuned and thanks for listening!

-n

We just got back from playing the Geronimo Music Festival in Lafayette, LA and boy did we have a good time!  Lafayette really knows how to show us big love.  Lafayette – we love you back!  Big, big thanks to Tiff & the whole Geronimo team for throwing an amazing event.  Y’all did a great job & we were honored to be a part of it.

We encourage everyone to come out to the Dragon’s Den this Friday, June 5th for A Living Soundtrack, D Numbers and Justin Peake’s Beautiful Bells.  We are psyched about this one!  D Numbers is coming all the way from Santa Fe to play for you, so don’t miss the electrical wonderment that their set will certainly become.  Their sound is hard to describe, so I won’t even try.  If you won’t take my word for it, please visit their MySpace or better yet – come check them out in person.  Justin Peake’s Beautiful Bells project will be another set you won’t want to miss.  Expect subtle, textural sound collages with beats – good stuff.

See y’all at the Den!

-n

If you are in Lafayette, LA this weekend (May 30th), you’d better be at the Geronimo Music Fest with us rocking out to thirty acts and six venues worth of great independant music and performance for just $12.  We will be playing at Artmosphere at 10:30pm.  Check out the flyer for a complete list of bands.  For a schedule, visit the Geronimo team on MySpace or Facebook.  Wristbands can be purchased at participating venues or in advance here.

See y’all at the fest!

-n

Check out this quick interview on StaticTV’s blog.  Also, come see us at Tip’s tonight with SWAK and Antenna Inn.

-n

We’re back playing shows again after our recent hiatus and we’ve been having a blast.  Our return started off with a night of great friends playing great music – The Blackbelt Band’s CD release show @ the Blue Nile.  We’ve played shows with these guys in 4 different bands over ten years now and everything they do is quality.  Their new album A New Community (Sick Room Records) is no exception and is their most brilliant work to date.  Check out this month’s Antigravity for the cover story and amusing interview with the band.

Next was the New Orleans Instrumental Music Fest presented by Southern Soundscape.  Despite some nasty weather that weekend we had a great time playin’ and kickin’ it with lots of our vocal-less contemporaries from across the south.  The event was recorded live and a compilation CD of the fest will be made available soon by Southern Soundscape.

Lafayette, LA - 4.04.09 - Photo By Isabel Lasala

On Friday, April 3rd we kicked off our ‘tour’ with good friends Smiley With A Knife.  Warning:  this is not actually a tour.  Basically we are just playing a bunch of shows together over the next two months, several of which are out of town. This week we head to Mobile, AL to play at the Blind Mule. If you are in Mobile, please spread the word.

-n

We have been working on a full-length album in various ways since November and finally made it to the Living Room studio in January to record the live tracks.  We dropped drums, bass, grand piano, various organs & electric pianos, trumpet, strings, and some computer sounds down to 2″ tape with Chris George and Daniel Majorie.  Since I used to work at a studio we have always just recorded ourselves in the past and have developed a unique way of doing things.  We decided this time to put the tracking in someone else’s hands and I, personally, couldn’t be happier with the results.  It was a perfect fit.  Chris and Daniel are truly pros.  We can be a pain in the ass to record, but they took it in stride and brought our tracks to a whole new level of clarity and depth.  Our project presented some serious technical challenges to an analog tape-based studio, but we all stuck with it and managed to get 11 songs done in a week!  It should also be mentioned that they insisted on working through the project despite the sudden and tragic loss of one of their close friends.  Their work ethic and professionalism made our work on the album so far a relaxed and truly enjoyable experience.  If you have a band and want to make a killer record, you should seriously consider the Living Room.  http://thelivingroomstudio.com/

All of the tracks recorded there have now been transferred to my home studio and we are working on a lot of the synth/computer stuff that we couldn’t squeeze into our week with Chris and Daniel.  I hope to have it wrapped up and in your hands sometime this summer.  We’ll keep y’all posted.

-n

Hello there -

Welcome to the A Living Soundtrack blog!  Our real website has been under construction for way too long, so this will have to do for now.  Please check back for news, show listings, pictures and who-knows-what-else.  Thanks for stopping by.

-n