Just completed a fun project for a "smoky alcoholic blues" combo, the Jam Messengers. Their new CD, entitled "5 Kinds of Bad", will be released shortly by Sour Moon Records, an indy label out of Bath, England. The tracks on the CD were recorded at various times and places, with recording equipment that ranged from live television sessions to iPhone field recordings. My job was to engineer the masters for the CD, making sure the final tracks would provide the needed kick…
Rob K
Rob K — trash-blues artist extraordinaire, and front half of both the Jam Messengers and the Workdogs — has broken through to academia. Rob's solo work, the Purgatory Home Companion, has come to the attention of the Dante scholar Arielle Saiber, associate professor of romance languages at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Professor Saiber is co-editor of a blog called Dante Today – Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture…
Rob K and I recently found a great addition to the Purgatory project. We were looking for the right artist to help us put together a package for a planned CD and for our digital releases for the Purgatory Home Companion, and our old friend Stephen Holman has agreed to help. Stephen, Rob and I have known each other since the 1980s, when we were all participants in the seamy but creative East Village scene. Since that time…
This song is from another of my ongoing music projects, the Purgatory Home Companion. The invention of trash-blues artist Rob K, this is the second in a trilogy of music sets built around Dante's "Divine Comedy". The first piece, on hell, was produced by Rob's New York band The Workdogs, and I contributed one piece of music to that effort. For the second part of the trilogy, I was brought on as producer and co-writer. The song embedded in this post…