New year, new faces, music, CD, and a ton of gigging coming up. We are about as giddy as a school girl for 2010. Speaking of which let me tell you about Julie Taquin.   Julie has officially joined the KTalonBand and played her first gig to a very full house at Pangea’s on December 15th.   Her sparkling personality, smile and playing where warmly received.  Julie is an intuitive violin player with a classical background who has captured what our music is all about and has added her own layer to this musical cake of ours.
We will be back at Audiowest Studio on the 15th to record and shoot video on 4 new songs (will post on youtube)and are planning in completing the  CD by April.
We are currently booking and schedule shows for the first part of the year and will be posting dates soon.

2009 was a weird little year and we are definitely looking for great things in 2010. We look forward to see our friends live and thank the continued support we have received from our listeners.

Peace and much love to us all

So things are slowly moving forward. Naluh has had surgery and we start chemotherapy this friday. The band has been silent because if my muse is not well, I’m not writing anything. If I’m not writing anything, you are listening to the same stuff.

So I am happy to say that we are breaking our silence on December 5th at Pangeas for a songwriters acoustic show. We will be bringing new music and a new band member. Come listen to Julie Taquin as she adds very intuitive violin to our sound. Also brand new music that was born during these funky times we are going through…New song is called “NOT THE WAY I PLANNED IT” and we  would like to unveiled it to you, our friends…

We will post more info on this and upcoming gigs…

Much love, check the tatas and love those around you…time is always short…

So those of us who are cursed with the songwriting thing write for many reasons. First because it is a curse and as such one doesn’t have a choice. We cope and exorcise the jumble of words and the incessant sound tracks in our heads the best we can. So we write about everything… People, places, likes, dislikes, drinking, hell people write about fricking pickup trucks. The prevalent theme is LOVE. Love lost, found, first love, remembered love, love sickness, love hatred .
If you are lucky you will find a muse to inspire your ditties and those of us that still feel our hearts pound at the sight of our girl (or guy) have a definite advantage over those who try to remember what that felt like.

I am lucky to have a muse who still rocks my boat and 90% of what you hear me play on stage is a direct reaction to how she makes me feel.

My muse is strong and brave and beautiful. She gives me strength through her strength and she gives me music and a reason to write everyday.

My Naluh is winning a drag down rumble with breast cancer. She is the one that has to face this thing and I am walking this road with her humbly doing what I can to help. The guitar keeps the house from being quiet, new music is being generated and will soon be shared. My biggest job is to follow and, if need be, carry my Muse a little bit when things get hard.

Things have been slow but they are moving and we will be back in 2010 with a bang.

The perfect world is one in which I can wake up at 9-am with the sound of palm trees swaying in the wind and to the smell of strong Brazilian coffee. Pumping up a 10 meter kite at the beach and knowing that the water will be a warm 80 plus degrees and that in between sessions the coconut water will be ice cold.
At night, time slinging a gig bag with my favorite guitar over my shoulder and heading over to a dark little funky place to play music and tell a few stories. Always have something new to try out on a friendly crowd and, for some weird reason, I really like the excitement of not knowing if I’ll remember the words just written because, even if you can’t tell, I’ll know if I fucked up a new line… I play in lieu of a shrinks couch and for the pure joy of excommunicating demons and in hopes of glimpsing tattooed dervishes floating about…
But this hasn’t been the perfect day, or week or month… Lines are being put to paper, frantic searches over frets abound but without the live opportunity to invade your ears… Silly phases, scheduling conflicts, epic battles, and dead air… A wee bit of life interfering with the order of things… Got a little bit of ass kicking to do, and then I’ll be back.

Yep! The unreasonable need to buy food and keep the bill collector away kept me away from the guitar and arranging for bookings this week.  Work was crazy and I was actually out of town for several days.

So now I find myself paralyzed by our bitchen Sacramento weather and the thought of leaving the house is dreadful unless the plan involves kiteboarding or playing music.

We played the benefit at Pangaea’s last Saturday and meet some cool cats with a great sound.  We also had our new member Mark playing with us live for the first time and the cello sure did find it’s place into the mix.

Will be posting some dates shortly, so keep checking the blog and listening to music at every chance you get.  It is something that binds us all and life is never that interesting if a sound track is not attached to it.

Peace…KTalon

We will be playing an acoustic show this coming Friday the 19th of June at Pangaea’s in Sacramento. This show is a benefit fundraiser to help some of our local artists to fund a trip to Cuba. We will be introducing our newest band member Mark Severeid and playing some of our older songs that just didn’t sound right without strings. We will also be playing some new material.

Pangaea is located at 2743 Franklin Blvd. in Sacramento and the show starts at about 7 p.m.. We hope to see you there.

We are welcoming a new addition to our musical adventure:  Mark  Severeid, a talented Cello player will be adding some very cool sounds and depth to our project.  We are also still talking to a few drummers and percussionists and have some promising prospects.

I have been lucky to have very talented musicians look at my music and then steer it to an unexpected direction.  It is fresh and surprising and always welcomed.

And look, really, I’m not going to say that the parade of far out people who run through auditions isn’t anything if not incredibly entertaining… Hell, who hasn’t seen at least one episode of  ”So You Think You Can Dance”.

In your minds eye, just imagine the guy that thinks he can bring your music to the next level… with his Tuba.

Little transition for the band.  We have lost our drummer to conflicting schedules, work, commitments… life!!!  We are already auditioning potential replacements and should be back on track, or better yet, on beat again soon.

I  had mentioned some surprises we had been working on and are happy to announce that mentioned surprised has come to fruition.  We  encourage our friends to come to the next show and check it out.

I will be back to the studio on the 21st to plan the final stretch of the cd.  Hoping to post new videos to youtube by months end.   New song “All About Me” next on the record list.

Will keep you posted…

Yep, it is about a real person, but we all have had the misfortune of crossing paths with that small minded, little hearted, Ogre spirited, big mouthed (we are not so sure they are even human), being.

If the sun shines, it’s always to hot! Little rain… Pre-cursor to the next biblical deluge! Food, too salty! Friend, two faced! Dog, a thing to be kicked when no one is looking! Disposition, miserable (all the time). Life’s goal and ambition, to f@&k up your Karma!

If they won the lotto, if the sky parted and angels threw rose petals, and the planets aligned in harmonic convergence ending wars and people held each other’s hands in unity and love… Well, BIG MOUTH would just know that the bastards are up to something…

Nice thing about writing music is that you can put these sad, miserable people in a place of your choosing where the rocks they throw become secondary to the pretty ripples the rocks create when they perchance hit water…

And the music… Rolls On!