a video from the [live with coffee and wine in an apartment] sessions

This will be the last post on my music stuff for a while, but i wanted to share one of the videos from the recent sessions. As emotionally exhausting as it was to page through nearly 10 years of songwriting for this project, it was a lot of fun -- if not therapeutic. Sadly, my kitchen looks a little bare and boring now without a dangling microphone and a laptop on the table, but it's time for some new and different -- non-musical -- ideas on the Astrosite. I need to let my fingers heal for a while anyway...well, until April 24th. Which reminds me, I'll be revisiting my musical archive down at my favorite little "dive wine bar" in Portland, M Bar, for their happy hour on April 24th. The place is about the same size as my kitchen, so I think I'll be able to nicely translate the recent album. I'll call it, [live with a bottle of wine in the smallest bar in Portland].

Below is the video component to the song, "our analog technology," from [live with coffee and wine in an apartment].

You can follow all my musical happenings and updates at dkotamusic.com.

our analog technology_ from dKOTA on Vimeo.

[live with coffee and wine in an apartment] is...well, live

after all that rain, wine, coffee, and page-sifting through my musical past and present, it's finally ready for any willing ears: [live with coffee and wine in an apartment] / much of the session is accompanied with video, which i'll slowly post onto the dkotamusic website (hence the screen capture below)

there's more i could say on the matter, including my surprise in how emotionally taxing it was to (re)engage in some of this material, but i will distill to say that it was incredibly rewarding, introspective, outrospective (yes, i just invented that word), and just plane and simple fun // my intent was to perform an intimate, unrehearsed, and raw private concert for the listener -- of course, with wine and coffee (not necessarily in that order, or in one setting, but with both somehow) / but i simply hope you enjoy the "concert" and relate in a way that takes part in your conversation / music is not a one-way vector - it's a busy intersection of ideas, emotions, opinions, experiences, desires ... (the list could ellipses off the page) / perhaps above all, art is about the the collision of conversation / and so, simply put, i hope you and i collide

at any rate, i've got this swarm buzzing in my mind that confronts the concepts of utopia, quixotism, and perfection-imperfection / it's about to spill onto this blog, but for now i'll resit, step away, and relax knowing that the weirdly intimate concert i've just made public is...well, no longer private // i hope you enjoy_