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Saturday July 17
SOUNDS OUTSIDE 2010
Cal Anderson Park
1635 11th Ave
Capitol Hill, Seattle
FREE & ALL AGES
1PM-8PM

Saturday July 31
Ask The Ages
the Chapel Performance Space on the fourth floor of the Good Shepherd Center
4649 Sunnyside Ave. N
Seattle
8PM

Friday August 6
Special O.P.S.
Molly Maguires
610 NW 65th St
Ballard
10PM

Saturday August 14
SOUNDS OUTSIDE 2010
Cal Anderson Park
1635 11th Ave
Capitol Hill, Seattle
FREE & ALL AGES
1PM-8PM

Thursday August 19
Ask The Ages
Northgate Community Center
10510 5th Avenue NE
Seattle
7PM

Friday September 3
Special O.P.S.
Molly Maguires
610 NW 65th St
Ballard
10PM

Saturday September 11
Special O.P.S.
Collins Pub
526 2nd Ave
Seattle
8PM

Thursday September 23
Special O.P.S.
Egans Ballard Jam House
1707 NW Market St
Ballard
7PM

Friday September 24
Special O.P.S.
Mississippi Pizza
3552 N Mississippi Ave
Portland, OR
9PM

Saturday September 25
Special O.P.S.
The Jazz Station
68 W. Broadway
Eugene, OR
9PM

Sunday September 26
Special O.P.S.
The Matrix
434 NW Prindle St
Chehalis, WA
8PM

Friday October 1
Special O.P.S.
Molly Maguires
610 NW 65th St
Ballard
10PM




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Floss at the Chapel

Author: Seman
01 18th, 2010

Video by Jesse Calhoun

 

 
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01 1st, 2010

FLOSS - VITAMIN A FREE DOWNLOAD

 

 

 

hey! get your vitamin a!

 

for a limited time download the new floss record, vitamin a, for free on monktail.com.

cds for sale at upcoming perofrmances.

  

Saturday January 9 - Floss at The SeaMonster

Saturday January 16 - Floss at The Chapel

 

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://monktail.com/mcmc_zip/floss–vitamin_a.zip

 

 

 

mark ostrowski - drums, zachary watkins, live electronics, izaak mills - woodwinds, john seman - bass.

recorded in oakland, ca october 3, 2007.

 



08 31st, 2009

Recorded mainly in Oberlin, OH in the fall of 1995, these recordings are some of the earliest experiments by John Seman, Mark Ostrowski and others in the monktail creative music concern. Recorded on 1/4-inch reels and 4-track cassettes, the quality is totally lo-fi DIY basement fabulous. 256 kbps mp3 free download.

 

 

 
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Evolution of an Idea

Author: Seman
05 8th, 2009

 

Baltimore filmmaker Grey Adkins’ short "Evolution of an Idea" won first prize at the first annual Baltimore City Paper Short Film Festival. The experimental film features music from the Seattle Harmonic Voices 2-CD set Harmonic Voice available on Monktail Records.

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/GreyAdkins

http://www.seattleharmonicvoices.com/

http://www.citypaper.com/promo/filmcontest.asp

 



Seattle based Reptet is among a diverse group of independent musicians named as a Finalist in the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards.  Their 2008 release, Chicken or Beef? (Monktail Records) is a finalist for Jazz Album of the Year.  Reptet is a genre bending band of jazz musicians based out of Seattle, WA. These six multi-instrumentalists have an expansive approach to jazz, performing original compositions that incorporate rock, ska, punk, modern classical, avant garde, eastern European folk influences and more. Their internationally acclaimed 2006 release, "Do This!" (Monktail Records) won many accolades and was chosen Jazz CD of the year by Jazziz Magazine’s Alex Gelfand. They have toured nationally and will be launching their first European tour in the summer of 2009.



08 13th, 2007

Deals Number! How about this folks.

 

Monktail Records is proud to bring you Show me what ya working with. The newest and firstest CD from Deals Number.

 


 

The longest running Monktail contingent in Seattle, Deal’s Number represents the Monktail philosophy of improvisation and spontaneous composition through the musings of saxophonist Bill Monto. Classically trained and devoid of jazz cliché and traditionalist hubris, Monto’s tone stretches and skronks and splats patterns of sound around the rolling boil of the Seman/Ostrowski rhythm section. Show Me features new works, group improvisations, and an extended suite extracted from an Ostrowski ballet. Live studio mix and production by Doug Haire at Jack Straw Productions. Deluxe packaging includes two action paintings by Seattle artist Jay Mason. Limited edition digipack released October 2007.

Purchase this new work in our new store.

Thanks to everyone who showed up at Egan’s.



Special Ops - Arm Me

Author: Monktail
08 10th, 2007

Arm Me!

Attention!
We are pleased to announce that Arm Me the new record from Monktail’s death-jazz commando unit SPECIAL OPS is available for your purchasing pleasure.

 

Buy this record here.

 

As a special exclusive here are 3 delightful little Special Ops ditties from a 2006 Sounds Outside Performance.

Enjoy!

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