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Currently I play #indiepopraccoonrock with TRASH PANDA GO KART. Also I play bass guitar for MKB ULTRA and BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! (improv trio with Jack Endino & Patrick Lenon), guitar for ARGAN BAND, & write for Tarpaulin Sky. Maybe a few other things here.





LOTS OF NEW MUSIC COMING
First up will most likely be the fabled GLASS GOBLINS disc recorded in Echo Park, Los Angeles, in 2011, featuring WoodyFrank on 2nd guitar, Simon Thomsen on drums. Evan Strauss & myself played bass on various tracks. Andrew Bush engineered the basic tracks. & here's the first shot across the bow, a version of YOUR HOUSE OF CARDS featuring PAUL JOHNSON on lead vocal..


HERE'S SOME NEW ARTICLES on musickal resistance magic, musick & breath, musick & astrology, & what to do before you play musick (a metamagickal practice routine).


I felt like this EP needed a remix & a remaster so I gave it one. Sheridan Riley on the drums, I played & sang everything else & wrote the tunes. Ian McKagan recorded the basic tracks in Widdershins basement. Enjoy!


SPECIAL FEATURE to help you RELAX
SLEARP is temporarily FREE MUSIC, because your need for chill times in this age of the completely-fucked-up, greatly outweighs my need for compensation. This music was recorded in time to my breath. May it slow yours & gently allow you a slight peace of mind.





shows about to happen:


5 TUESDAYS IN OCTOBER 2019
BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! at TIM'S TAVERN
7pm doors, 8pm music, NO COVER, 21+
Tim's Tavern, Greenwood, Seattle, WA, Earth
bands to include: Black Ends, Virago, Batsmoke (Paul Johnson), Jordan Gillis
Purple Strange (Endino), Trash Panda Go Kart (5&z), The Velveteen Rabbit Hole
The Pat Benatars, Monster Boob
Orca guests to include: Matthew Reid-Schwartz (Kinski), John Leighton Beezer (Thrown Ups)
Sheridan Riley (Alvvays), Matto (trippy mando!), James Watson
THINGS TO DON'T MISS in 2019



HEALTHY KITTENS is a collaboration between 5-Track & Marc Cantlin 2, with help from Sheridan Riley, Jack Endino, & a few other friends. Check it out:
https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/healthy-kittens



NEWS (updated February 5th 2019):

I've remixed & remastered my TRIO ep... Check it out here: https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/trio-2019-remaster


BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA! made a proper CD, the kind you can hold in your hand. Includes our complete shows from High Dive opening for Mdou Moctar & El Corazon opening for Uriah Heep. (read em n weep)...
https://beyondcaptainorca.bandcamp.com/album/live-2018-cd-only-includes-high-dive-ganja


Astrol Waters Trip City Revisited, a collection of remixes of an album that doesn't exist. Culled from the second half of Astrol Water's album session at Seattle's Soundhouse with the unambiguously amazing Jack Endino, then filtered through my melted plastic brain. Stirred in some sage & some coffee grounds, cinnamon & sugaree & nutmeg & cider vinegar & a hint of peanut butter & banana. Thrice blessed. Blow up yer cranium with this joyous lozenge.
https://cosmicprimitive.bandcamp.com/album/trip-city-revisited


The first TWELVE live albums from BEYOND CAPTAIN ORCA!
(improv trio with Jack Endino guitar, Patrick Lenon drums, 5-Track bass)
now downloadable from the amazing bandcamp. Here's one to grow on:


Here’s some pix from May 6th, sold out show at Blue Moon,
MKB ULTRA opening for Giants In The Trees:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kexp/sets/72157680445884363


ASTROL WATERS on Sonarchy radio broadcasted back on July 31st. You can right-click download it here: http://media.kexp.org/podcasts/sonarchy/media/2017-07-27_sonarchy_07-30-17_astrol_waters.mp3
or simply stream:


(additional updates on tumblr http://5-track.tumblr.com)



BIOGRAFFITUM

The musician known as 5-Track has released a surprising array of music, in styles ranging from rock&roll to acoustic singer-songwriter to gnarly electric guitar noise, mellow freejazz & meditation music, & more. He has played twisted country-rock in Joshua Tree California with Amanda Jo Williams & Matthew O'Neill, sat in with Lauren Gurgiolo's Kierkegaard-&-Coleman-inspired Dialtones in a yurt in a field next to a swimming hole outside Austin Texas. He has collaborated with Seattle rock legends, improv-rocker John Leighton Beezer & engineer/guitarist Jack Endino.

Julian Cope: "5-Track appears intent on insinuating himself into our consciousnesses as a 21st century artist of the United States' next phase...delivering up to us a most necessary and much needed (in)articulate speech-of-the-heart whilst simultaneously providing spectacular picked accompaniment."

Matthew O'Neill: "If Thomas Pynchon had a roadhouse, 5-Track would be the resident artist."

Drew Denny, L.A. Record: "There should be an illustration of 5-Track next to the word 'guitarist' in the dictionary!"

D. M. Collins, L.A. Record: "Not since Marc Bolan has a flower child of this magnitude said, 'Fuck it, I'm going to take the shimmering diamond tears from beneath the eye of a unicorn and rip a hole in your ASS with it!'"

5-Track dwells in Seattle, where he guitars & basses with MKB ULTRA (rock&soul music), Beyond Captain Orca! (improv trio, Jack Endino lead guitar, Patrick Lenon drums), Peg (Sheridan Riley's pop-rock genius), Argan Band (Moroccanroll music), The Walking Faces (jamband duo), Astrol Waters (improv collective w/ Keenen Magik), his own 5-Track trio, &tc

5-Track teaches holistic music (focus on guitar & bass guitar), takes the occasional photograph, draws the occasional picture, remixes the occasional remix, cuts up newspaper articles & puts them back together in new & surprising ways. Sings the results. Investigates about musical reiki technology. Speaks for the trees.










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