Err or Man, by the Ear Reverends
a music deck
20 pieces ~ cd ~ book ~ website
December 2nd: The first Err or Man numbered / signed cd/book edition is now sold-out. Thanks for the great response!
The next limited edition cd/book will be available soon. Please check-back here for links to purchase and for the new website, including the Err or Man website and the new Wrong Notes blog.
More info and new website coming soon . . .
arrrgh! here be the old site
The Ear Reverends' recordings:
(all releases on HereJam Records)
Wrong Notes - music blog and podcast
The Wrong Notes blog features the latest music from the Ear Reverends in each new post. Check it out—stuff is happening here.
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Downloads are mp3, streams are m3u: these are licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Practices
Various extended experiments and novelties. Stuff done to let off steam or try new things out, but not for any specific album or even particularly to be definitive works:
| Deluxe Memory Man (7/2004) | download | stream |
| Plastic Toys (4/2004) | download | stream |
| Joi vs The Burtonator (11/2003)
song notes (on the iCite net blog) |
download | stream |
Wrong Notes
These are short pieces created originally for Wrong Notes, the music blog of the Ear Reverends. The first Wrong Notes pieces were officially released on April 1, 2004. All Wrong Notes pieces up through February 2007 are posted here:
| Wrong Notes masthead | download | stream |
| Spy? Music | download | stream |
| Nostalogia | download | stream |
| Other Ducks | download | stream |
| Oh Snap | download | stream |
| New Bageon | download | stream |
| The 33 1/3 Commandment (for Anastasia) | download | stream |
| Cheese Generator | download | stream |
| Dormir | download | stream |
| Forty-six today, quarter? | download | stream |
| Hack | download | stream |
| Matter Day | download | stream |
| Sat tea | download | stream |
| Technology | download | stream |
| Toe A Wave | download | stream |
| umbtrack | download | stream |
| Wrong Past | download | stream |
Finding Out Where the Microphone Is, First Sketches
The Ear Reverends' "concept of proof" album, released only privately to a few friends. Eleven songs / pieces written and recorded in Fall 2002. One song is still trying to evolve into a track on the forthcoming Err or Man. A few other tracks from Finding Out... are posted here:
| invocation (harsibored solo) | download | stream |
| is this a test? | download | stream |
| low fi | download | stream |
| riddle | download | stream |
Spring Sprouts
Spring Sprouts was recorded direct to analog cassette in 1988, in Santa Cruz. One series of pieces from the tape are the "Trescony Toy", which are posted here:
| Trescony Toy #1 | download | stream |
| Trescony Toy #2 | download | stream |
| Trescony Toy #3 | download | stream |
| Trescony Toy #4 | download | stream |
| Trescony Toy #5 | download | stream |
| Trescony Toy #6 | download | stream |
Portastudio Master
The first Ear Reverends multitrack experiments were captured on Portastudio Master in 1982. One piece is posted here:
| Invention One | download | stream |
< Forthcoming: >
< Frothgoing: >
Blood Drive
Unfinished Ear Reverends' album. Twelve songs / pieces written and recorded from early 2003 to early 2005. This project is currently on-hold to make way for new material. Two early rough mixes of instrumentals from Blood Drive are posted here:
| Wing Drops (early rough mix) | download | stream |
| Wiper Away (early rough mix) | download | stream |
< Links and things: >
More coming soon, but here is a page of links to sites about online music and Internet-enabled music business that we like to look at.
< Thanks and things: >
Download and stream provided by the awesomely great Internet Archive!! All of the Ear Reverends' titles on the Internet Archives are listed here.