Mark Rushton Podcast #30 – “Yacht Club”

Mark Rushton Podcast #30 – “Yacht Club”
Released July 13, 2008
36 minutes and 49 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
50MB

An interview with Jon Harnish and Craig Erickson about the floods in Cedar Rapids. Two pieces of music (music starts at 4:30 and 13:30 into the podcast) featuring Mark Rushton, bassist Jon Harnish, and guitarist Craig Erickson at the Yacht Club in Iowa City on Sunday, July 6, 2008. Also playing on the same bill that night was Pacific Before Tiger and Eric Hall. Following our music in the podcast, I have a track by Pacific Before Tiger from his album Anchors called “In Gold” (music starts at 25:30 into the podcast). After that, I have a portion of Eric Hall’s set at the Yacht Club (music starts 30:50 into the podcast). Check out the entire podcast!

Eric Hall

Pacific Before Tiger

Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton Podcast #29 – “Mandatory”

Mark Rushton Podcast #29 – “Mandatory”
Released June 11, 2008
13 minutes and 45 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
20MB

Jon and I were expecting to get together tonight at his Weather Excuse studio in Cedar Rapids to make music, but instead a mandatory evacuation of Jon’s neighborhood due to a possible flood occurred. In this podcast are three tracks from the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album: “New Bohemia” (excerpt), “Advisory”, and “River Bend”.

Mark Rushton Podcast #28 – Three Tracks Of Ambient Electronica

Mark Rushton Podcast #28 – Three Tracks Of Ambient Electronica
Released April 19, 2008
15 minutes and 20 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
21MB

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish performing three tracks. The first is a live piece recorded on October 13, 2007 in Cedar Rapids. The second is “Money Agent” from the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album. The third is a live piece recorded on March 8, 2008 at Jon’s Weather Excuse studio.

Mark Rushton Podcast #27 – Live at Legion Arts

Mark Rushton Podcast #27 – Live at Legion Arts
Released March 23, 2008
17 minutes and 53 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
25MB

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish performing during “Out Of Bounds” at Legion Arts in Cedar Rapids on March 22, 2008. Mark Rushton is on XioSynth, Yamaha pedal, and Sony digital audio player. Jon Harnish is on bass guitar and effects box. The performance was about 17 minutes long. The first 10 minutes were pure improvisation, and the final 7 minutes were performances of “Spaces” and “Winter Wind Chimes” from their album Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish. Visuals by digital lumia artist George Stadnik. For more information about Stadnik’s Digital Lumia, visit the Center For Visual Music or Photon Light Guitars.

Mark Rushton Podcast #26 – Mid-March 2008

Mark Rushton Podcast #26 – Mid-March 2008
Released March 16, 2008
11 minutes and 14 seconds
192kb-encoded MP3
16MB

Three pieces of ambient/electronica music are played. A short introduction by Mark Rushton during the first piece of music, an excerpt of “That Was A Different Life” by Mark Rushton from the Flow album. “Advisory” by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish. Finally, a new untitled track by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish recorded live in Jon’s home studio on March 8, 2008.

Mark Rushton Podcast #25 – The Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish Album

Mark Rushton Podcast #25 – The Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish Album
Released February 27, 2008
12 minutes
192kb-encoded MP3
13MB

Excerpts from every track on the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album. Current and back catalog is now available in MP3 download format for only $3.95 per album at CDBaby.com.

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton Podcast #24 – February 2008 – Two New Albums On Sale

Mark Rushton Podcast #24 – February 2008 – Two New Albums On Sale
Released February 8, 2008
14 minutes and 43 seconds
160kb-encoded MP3
17MB

Four pieces of music are played. I have released two new ambient electronica albums recently. Flow is a solo album. There’s also the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album. Both are on sale for a short time at CDBaby as MP3 download albums for $3.95 each, as well as the rest of my back catalog.

Mark Rushton - Flow

Mark Rushton - Flow

Mark Rushton - Flow

Mark Rushton Podcast #23 – January 2008 – More From The Digital Vault

Mark Rushton Podcast #23 – January 2008 – More From The Digital Vault
Released January 8, 2008
16 minutes
160kb-encoded MP3
18.3MB

I’ve just released two new albums on CD. The first one is the Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album. The second is a solo album called Flow. The albums are full of drifting ambient music infused with field recordings. Both are available on CD right now. The albums should be on digital download services some time in February 2008. I’ll be making podcast shows from those albums after they are released to the digital download services.

This podcast features five tracks of music from my vault of unreleased recordings.

Mark Rushton Podcast #22 – October 2007 – Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton Podcast #22 – October 2007 – Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish
Released October 15, 2007
20 minutes and 30 seconds
160kb-encoded MP3
24MB

Jon Harnish and I recorded these three improvised ambient/electronica pieces on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at his Weather Excuse studio in the New Bohemia section of Cedar Rapids. Other recordings from this session will likely come out in podcasts in the future.

On these tracks, Jon is on bass guitar and effects box. I’m either on my Xiosynth using it as a stand-alone synth or as a keyboard controller for Ableton Live running on my laptop. I’m also playing Jon’s controller running Atmosphere. Everything was recorded on my new Zoom H2.

Mark Rushton Podcast #21 – June 2007 – Two New Ambient And Meditative Tracks

Mark Rushton Podcast #21 – June 2007 – Two New Ambient And Meditative Tracks
Released June 23, 2007
11 minutes and 30 seconds
160kb-encoded MP3
13MB

Two new ambient and meditative tracks created recently at my new studio in Iowa City.