When Giants Fall News

Man, a lot has been going on.

WGF is now a part of a local community of bands and musicians called the Wandering Infinity Collective.

Maybe I’ll get some time for another CD, but things are slow – I’m actually working on something new with my friend Paul Hiatt, (his blog is here: http://paulhiatt.blogspot.com/). We call it a Southern Rock band but we’re not really sure what it’s going to be, but it’ll sound midwesty. Yeah,  Midwest Rock, Midwest guitar Rock. He’s a great songwriter and I hope I can keep up with him. Maybe we’ll be playing around as an acoustic duo before the band comes together.

I do miss the WGF music, though. I’m trying to cut the fat  in order to get more time … time to do more. As it is always, life, no matter how small in the eyes of an infinite universe, wanders on.

Greetings earthings.
It’s been a while but I have returned.
I’ve been spending most of my time in the filmworld as the wandering infinity guy, creating and supplying music for a new, local, indie film called “Render Me Dead”. You can see the trailer at http://vimeo.com/7002007. It’s being submitted to film festivals now so there won’t be a public screening until that process is finished. Hopefully you can see the premier at the Seattle International Film Festival!

It features some new bands from Seattle and some that have been around for a while and it includes two tracks from the last When Giants Fall CD.

Some of the other bands are:
Lark Vs. Owl
Green Chili GoGo Dust
Big Dirt
Aunt Jamamas Big Bands Vigilantes
Paul Hiatt

A few pieces of the score were written by me, but the majority was improvised under my direction with a group of guys that became the Garden Gnome Chomskys (http://www.myspace.com/thegardengnomechomskys).

You can get the Soundtrack CD at the WIStore (http://wistore.wanderinginfinity.com/) soon. I need to upload all of the songs so you can buy them individually and that won’t happen until early January 2010.
However, Green Chili GoGo Dust just put put a fanstastic debut CD which is available now. You’ll also find Lark Vs. Owl there as well, another superb debut CD.

The WIStore (http://wistore.wanderinginfinity.com/)

Until next time,

mickey

WGF

Just go to the store in iTunes (or Rhapsody, eMusic, etc) and search for:
When Giants Fall Momentum

… and you’ll see the songs listed and available for individual download.

thanks,
mick

We just got back from a vacation, visiting my sister in Hawaii. Yes it was warm and we spent lots of time on the beach in Napili. Then we returned home (after many hours of waiting and a red-eye flight) to a snowy Seattle. Even though I didn’t get much sleep, the first thing I did was a lot of snow shoveling and it elt good.

Although the studio is booked with other projects (check out Lark Vs. Owl) for January, WGF will be working on a new CD very soon. I have been spending so much time with the business side of things (you know promotion, getting gigs, b.ah, blah, blah) and not doing a particularly good job of it … that I haven’t had time to spend on what I really like to do. But with the new year comes new ideas and soon I will be changing things around and concentrating on new tunes.

I saw it last night, a vague fog letting out only the sub waves of sound. The sound of someone very frustrated and afraid of 90 days of wet. Even my own voice sounded harsh and scratchy; I listened to Medeski Martin and Wood rythms and understood each piece and player.

I need to get on to the next chapter before I drown in this stale story.

Let’s explore, shall we?

We got some video of the last show – and some great feedback; some said it was the best ever!

As soon as I can convince someone to edit out some of the songs I will post them.

I am very happy to announce that we’ll be playing with Trip Like Animals on Friday, Oct 4th at the Mars Bar.

If myspace happens to work when you go there you can hear them there (click the link above).

We’ll also be playing with To The Waves. Both bands have CDs out on some sort of label, for what that’s worth. I have been trying to catch a Trip Like Animals show, so I’m psyched to get the chance to see them.

See you there!

- mickey

Looking forward to a rockin show!

The Krell will be opening and Sub-Motive will finish it off.

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First off – Thanks to those of you who came out to see us at 10PM on a Monday night!

I had a good time despite the fact that I was suffering from food poisoning all day. It’s really just fun to play, I hope you’ll come check it out.

I got some updates to the website. I added a gallery for photos, you can find them here:

http://whengiantsfall.com/photos.html

I’m still a little wiped out so I’ll leave it at that for now.