Help my friend Shanti get her album recorded

Okay, so this isn’t strictly band related, but I’ve played with her so it counts: like me, my friend Shanti is working on her first album. Her music is completely unlike mine – where I’m doing elfmetal, punk, and RAEG, she’s doing laments, harmony, and bittersweetness.

She has some really talented people working with her, too. I’ve heard a bit of the rough cut from her first substantial studio session, recorded just last week, down in Oregon. It’s much better than anything you’ll find of hers online – even her own sample tracks, which were recorded months ago. She’s really brought it up a level.

Intrigued? Over here, you’ll find a Kickstarter project to get the next stages of her project funded. She’s hoping to have the album out by Easter. Go give it a look. I think she’ll make something good.

Mirrored from Crime and the Blog of Evil.

Points north of Seattle: temporary eclipse viewing opportunities

If you're north of Seattle and up reading this, you have a cloud opening window right now (modulo 10 minutes depending upon where you are) to see the lunar eclipse. It's currently 23:54 and our 10 minute window just closed, but we had a nice, unobstructed view as long as it lasted.

eta: If you missed it, flashfire has a couple of really nice multisecond exposure shots, taken from outside Sacramento, in California.