Sxip Shirey

about 21 hours ago
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
Posted project update #9

1 third of the album is composed
All the songs, the pretty stuff, the stuff with glass harmonica and resophonic guitar and drums and beat box. Got this stuff finished for my last Joe's Pub gig. Now I am working on compositions for modern dance and this is yielding the more sound oriented stuff and THEN I am doing 4 shows with my JANK band this fall and that will yield the nasty fun stuff. AND THEN..I'll record. I am working, the album will be amazing..oh yeah..and then there is the orchestra I am going to put together for this....
..I am working, it will have been worth the wait!
and there is this....
http://soundcloud.com/sxip-shirey/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head
the photo is from the Ecstatic Music Festival! It's my set up and the set up from some amazing collaborators.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/09/arts/music/ecstatic-music-fest-with-sxip-shirey-and-angelica-negron.html
I am working hard.
Cheers!
Sxip
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on January 11
Sxip Shirey
backed a project
Hi! It's Brooklyn Rider! Can you hear us? by johnny gandelsman

Hi! Can you hear us? We are listening and taking notes. Become a partner in the creation of our new album, "Seven Steps"!
- Classical Music
- Brooklyn, NY
- 118% funded $35,610 pledged
- 245 backers
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on December 29
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
commented on a project update

I promise to sing more of my material on this next album!
on December 29
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
Posted project update #8

my rough demo of Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You out of my Head"
http://soundcloud.com/sxip-shirey/cant-get-you-out-of-my-head?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=facebook&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fsxip-shirey%2Fcant-get-you-out-of-my-head
I have bought a microphone from Tony Bennett Studios, an AKG c414 EB, I have been thinking about this song and recorded this to test out the mic. Been considering it for the album, with Aimee Curl singing it also or asking Holcome Waller. Enjoy.
If you are in NYC, I have a show at Joe's Pub on Jan 7th at 9:30pm where I will be preview a number of pieces that will be on the album. Cheers!
-Sxip
1. 1. Rima Fand on December 29
    
    It's great! Love it. xo
  2. Rebecca on December 29
    
    I must confess, my fangirl-ness wants to hear YOUR voice singing YOUR stuff. There is something so intimate about the poet reading his own works aloud. And I love your interpretation of this song. Having a masculine voice singing this song has a different flavor than a woman singing it. You are the maestro, and your ear is the one with the skill.
  3. Sxip Shirey on December 29
    
    I promise to sing more of my material on this next album!
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on December 22
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
Posted project update #7

I am writing ridiculously, absurdly, blatantly (but NOT obscenely!?) beautiful music for the new albumand...
...this is my glass harmonica player, in the video. He's really a great musician and composer. His name is Jonathan Rodgers. Hurray!
...Also my band Luminescent Orchestrii got #21 on the top #50 bluegrass albums of the year for our collaboration with the Carolina Chocolate Drops for Nonesuch records. REALLY! I finally chart and it's on the bluegrass charts with an album that is not bluegrass....The EP is REALLY REALLY fun, if you find it..you will love it.
http://www.billboard.com/charts-year-end/top-bluegrass-albums?year=2011&begin=21&order=position#/charts-year-end/top-bluegrass-albums?year=2011&begin=21&order=position
But check this out...it's us recording one of the tracks..hmmm..I had less grey hair then...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu10D9K2KQg
Also, I am one of 50 winners of the United States Artist fellowship, of 50K. my god my taxes are about to really fuck me. 50K is more like 35K...oh boy...BUT a lovely man by the name of Todd Simon who is the president of Omaha STEAKS..but up the money..and he's sending me steaks...I am not kidding..I am going to write him an entrance theme....fantastic..you know I bitch about life allot...like most people..but I live a pretty damn good life. I am working hard..that's how it is to me..I just keep working...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-05/-hoop-dreams-director-composer-named-sxip-get-50-000-usa-artist-grants.html
Oh and one more thing..they are going to FRACK my home town of Athens, OHIO..I can't explain how heart broken I am...fuck..but I wrote this...this explains it...
http://soundcloud.com/sxip-shirey/thisisasadsongaboutthemfrackin
The album, YOUR album will be beautiful, I promise...I am making something beautiful, raw and deep and from dreams...
I am performing a bunch of this music at Joe's Pub on Jan. 7th..so if you are in NYC...
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,5925
I promise you a string quintet!
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on December 17
Sxip Shirey
backed a project
Slow/Fast: 10 DAYS FOR THE NEW RECORD by Ken Thomson

After the 2010 acclaimed "It Would Be Easier If" - we're set to go into the studio for "Settle" - a dynamic new disc you can preorder!
- Jazz
- Brooklyn, NY
- 106% funded $2,665 pledged
- 89 backers
- Funded Dec 24, 2011
on December 7
Sxip Shirey
backed a project
Make Rubulad's Dream Home Come True by Rubulad

Rubulad is moving! And in search of a new home for our monthly party. We bring art, music and people together unlike anyone else.
- Mixed Media
- Brooklyn, NY
- 106% funded $37,248 pledged
- 733 backers
- Funded Dec 09, 2011
on October 16
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
commented on a project update

Why is there a delay on the sound every time lately when I make a video on my Mac Book Pro, using Photo Booth then upload it?
on October 16
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
Posted project update #6

I got something in the post....
:)
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1. 1. Olga Nunes on October 17
    
    This video makes me very, very, very happy.
    
    :D :D :D
  2. Nikki Jeske on October 18
    
    This makes me smile. :) Yay!
  3. Adam Groves on October 29
    
    Hmmm, tha tank is now to tune each of the boxes so you can ply chords by throwing them around the place...
    
    Or an automated handbell masher...
    
    Or a robot handbell choir...
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on October 10
A Bottle of WHISKEY and a Handful of BEES -Sxip Shirey
- Music
- Brooklyn, NY
Sxip Shirey
commented on a project

Ok, I wont see it as silly...it's interesting. I am having a bit of a time of it, trying to figure out what this album wants to say. I think of an albums as over all compositions with different movements.