J A T U N

Mobile EP has finally been released on Bandcamp! Download for free or pay what you want via the link below. All proceeds go towards purchasing equipment used for playing live shows and recording material for Jatun. Thank you all for listening and for your continued support over the years!!! 

http://jatun.bandcamp.com/album/mobile-ep

Mobile EP will be released on May 22nd, 2012 on Bandcamp. It’s the first in a series of 3 free releases this year, and is being mastered by Ryan McGreer of Cloud City Cars.

The Hollow Occupant is my first collaboration with eleventhfloorrecords. Hopefully we’ll have an EP ready for release by the end of this year…

Click on the link below to listen:

http://soundcloud.com/eleventhfloorrecords/the-hollow-occupant-demo

My old Macbook Pro is going to the Apple shop this week, so hopefully it won’t take too long to get fixed up. Once it’s back, I’ll finish up the mastering for the Mobile EP and get it uploaded to Bandcamp.

Alan Grosvenor recently moved back to Portland, and we started up a new project together. It’s been great playing with him. Feels just like the old days. So far, a couple songs have been written and we’re still searching for other members.

Duncan Calver and I started practicing a live set for Dunes of Bandon. We’ve still have yet to finish mixing our albums, which is something that I think about daily … trust me. Once my laptop is fixed, we’ll get some of the first tracks sorted out and will release a free EP on Bandcamp.

eleventhfloorrecords vs Jatun is happening, although not under that ghastly name. Niso and Henke hit me up a few months ago with some misfit songs to work on, and I did the same for them. I think there’s 5 or 6 songs that have been written so far. It’s been inactive for a bit due to my laptop problems, but I’ll get back to it eventually.

I’ve also been playing music with a good friend of mine, Ryan McGreer. He has an ambient project called Cloud City Cars. His debut album is up on Bandcamp for free / pay what you want, so you should go download it. The stuff we’ve recorded so far (14+ hours of material) is largely ambient. There’s no name yet, but I’m very eager to get this project playing shows and releasing material.

Lots of projects in the works for this year, let’s hope they all get off the ground.

Recently I asked Jatun fans on Facebook what they would think of me adopting Jatun as a moniker, and releasing all solo produced material (like Biltmore Dive) under that name. Their responses made one thing clear, it doesn’t matter what name I release material under … they just want to hear the music.

So it’s with great pleasure that I announce a new Jatun album, Mobile EP:  a free release coming December 2011 via Bandcamp. From here on out, if there’s a real photograph on the album cover it’s an ambient release. I think it will be my way of distinguishing what kind of material is on the album, like how Boris does with lowercase or capital letters on their album covers.

If you knew Jatun on MySpace anywhere from April 2006 to 2010 (when I received the last message from a real human being on MySpace) you probably know about Biltmore Dive, my ambient project. I’ve recently started working with that material again and started using tumblr for a website and have made a Facebook page as well. Be sure to visit the tumblr page to get details on future releases and stream some songs on the SoundCloud player.

Wonderful news from eleventhfloorrecords, the artwork for the album has now been finished. Mastering was wrapped up around the beginning of this month and I expect that the album should be going to the press sometime soon. I can’t wait for this album to be in our hands.

Jatun fans will be pleased to hear of upcoming EP and full-length releases. I promise you this, this autumn you’ll have some new tracks to bump in your cans.