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

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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