Currently Available for Direct Mail Order from Elephant Micah...
Elephant
Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds (CD) $12
Elephant Micah
Exiled Magicians (CD) $10
Elephant Micah Hindu
Windmills (CD) $10
Elephant
Micah, Your Dreams Are Feeding Back (CD) $8
Untied
States of Elephant Micah (CD) $8
Populated
Mosaics (Book) $8
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Coming Fairly Soon...
Elephant Micah Louder Than Thou (LP)
Older information on various releases...
Elephant Micah Echoer's Intent CDR
"Echoer's Intent critically considers notions of 'training' in the social contexts of fine art, animal husbandry, and areas in between. Characters include an unethical folksong collector, a French schoolboy and his dog Robot, and a migratory game researcher. These minimal, mostly live recordings are the first to fully foreground Elephant Micah as a writing and solo performance project."
1 Loon Call
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2 Field Notes
3 Distant Whistling
4 Untrained Architecture
5 Still
Life Blues
6 Ambiguous Instincts
7 Echo of an Echo
8 Robot Barking
Deluxe CDR edition including lyric sheet.
Available from Time-Lag Records by e-mailing
Nemo (click here). ALL PHYSICAL COPIES SOLD OUT
Available in digital form from my Product of Palmyra web store (click here).
Also available as a digital download from Other Music (click here).
Elephant Micah Plays the Songs of Bible Birds CD
Touring the east coast in 2003, someone asked, "You're from Indiana--have you ever heard of the Bible Bird Man?" I hadn't, so I did some research. His video had already been stolen from the library at Earlham College, but I stole it back and returned it.
I began to imagine what the musical equivalent of his evangelical bird act might sound like. I wrote a song about the bird man, thinking of releasing it as a "re-issue" of a central Indiana country-gospel group that had never existed--the Bible Birds. Then I thought maybe I would do an Elephant Micah album of covers originally written by this (non-existent) Bible Birds band.
In the end of course the concept kind of dissipated and it just became an Elephant Micah album. I recruited Beth Remis from Static Films (and more recently Pillars and Tongues) to help arrange/sing harmonies for the songs, and generally bring them up to pseudo-gospel snuff. We played the songs around the upper midwest once with Ben Racher on a portable pump organ and Jason Henn on upright bass. All of us got together in Indianapolis in 2006 and recorded this. I drove everyone crazy with my insistence on weird recording methods. I think I was kind of trying to approximate the timbres of the hymn sing broadcast on Salem, Indiana's WSLM. Who knows? I was critical of the results and didn't finalize them for several years.
Here it is finally, a kind of "prequel" companion to the Hindu Windmills album.
1 Cardinals
2 Free as the Freest
3 Loop and Lil
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4 The Brighter Bird, the Better
5
Imaginary Melodies
6 Are You a Christian?
7 Paradise
8 To Exit this Circular
Highway
9 Auto-Lullaby
Available from Time-Lag Records by e-mailing Nemo ( click here).
Also available directly from me (see top of page), and as a digital download from Product of Palmyra (click here).
LP version forthcoming.
The Mayor of Rocky Ripple's First Three Demos CDR
Pete Schreiner, who has been part of a lot of great Bloomington music over the years, extended an invitation recently to record in his basement studio. I brought over a few new songs I'd been writing, and this little "demo" EP is what happened. Besides working the controls, Pete plays some bass, drums, and electric guitar. In the spirit of immediacy, now you have it, a couple months later.
1 The Queen of Rocky Ripple
2 Hidden River Run
3 Independent Hearts
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Populated Mosaics Book
Forty-four short poems for amusement and contemplation, hand-bound and packaged as a "CD without a CD." Compiled from several years-worth of word experiments and traditional American pseudo-haiku. Populated Mosaics wonders, for one, "What do things look like from above?"
$8 Postage Paid. Click here to order.