low-beam
charge of the light brigade

Low-Beam began recording Charge of the Light Brigade in the summer of 2004. The LP was produced by Michael Deming, who had just relocated to a new, completely remodeled studio in Enfield, CT. Deming had produced many promising Connecticut acts, as well as several nationally known bands.

Low-Beam was chosen to be the first act to record in the new studio. Four months of CJ adding scratch vocals and guitar to a click track began the project, and then drums were added over six weeks to those rough guide tracks.  Many more months of hard work went into the record, but the band eventually broke up as the phenomenal LP was completed...

With the burgeoning MMA taking shape, and the revamped Hozomeen online presence, the four members of Low-Beam - CJ Stankewich, Jaimee Weatherbee, Rich Martin, and Rich Freitas - decided to release the record through Cosmodemonic Telegraph, with an online assist from the MMA.

magpie
Magpie

In 1994, at Mike Cyr's Sorceror's Sound, Magpie evolves as a four-piece, and releases their best tracks yet on an untitled EP with four groundbreaking songs: the rousingly fatal Dread, the skimbleshanksian sound of the seattle-rific Bellyup,  the paced deliberation of Steeplechase, and the yearning prayer of Sweet Reprisal (which happens to feature some of the best vocals ever recorded round these parts, thanks to Mark Quinn...) :

Drums: Michael Davies
Bass: Ed Briones
Guitar/Vocals: Mark Quinn
Guitars/Vocals: CJ Stankewich

This eponymous EP also features the most beautiful cover art, assembled by Jen Wolcin, Michelle Gemma, and Rich Martin. 

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nedderkoppen

Nobody Ever Does presents Luke Hunter, Hannah Utt, Nevin Nguyen-Tan, Bennett Quarles, Emily Quarles, and Zach Drake.

Converged upon Hatteras Island for six days, they worked out these four epic soundscapes, threaded geodetic through Vesuvial Pompeii, 1972 Pompeii, and a present day location, perhaps the fields of Chernobyl?

enjoy the ecstatic.

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Paper
+ Plastic

Magpie, in this instance solo trackster CJ Stankewich, delivers a twelve song canon swirling in psychedelic sonik intensity.  Paper + Plastic is the intriguingly raw period after CJ's work in the Skimbleshanks, just prior to the more majestic full-throttle four-piece version of Magpie.

Several of the tracks were conceived, but never finished, in the Skimbleshanks and Irwin Project (w/Martin & Tarbox), several are proto versions of later Magpie standards, and several of these excursions exist only on this cassette.  The cover art, by Jen Wolcin, and the design of the cassette, by Rich Martin, are classic album art, ideally conveying the music within.     

Please enjoy this solo LP from CJ Stankewich!

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