Gutbrain Records
c/o Rob Price
[No P.O. Box at the moment]
rob@gutbrain.com

CDs available:


I Really Do Not See The Signal
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Jim Black

Get Lost
Rob Price & David Grollman

At Sunset
Rob Price, Ellery Eskelin,
Trevor Dunn & Joey Baron

Providence
Mr. Dorgon & Laura Cromwell

Blue Punctilios
Combination No. 10
(Rob Price, Victor Rice
& Ara Babajian)

Download:

(download)
Chris Cawthray, Rob Price, Ed Zankowski

Alice Bierhorst
Joey Baron
Sandy Bell
Martin Bisi
Jim Black
Shelley Burgon
Chris Cawthray
Jason Crigler
Laura Cromwell
Andrew D'Angelo
Mr. Dorgon
Trevor Dunn
Ellery Eskelin
Lee Feldman
Scott Friedlander
Pete Galub
Greta Gertler
Jen Gilleran
Michael Gomez
Curtis Hasselbring
Head vs. Wall
Dan Hewins
Chesley Hicks
Kayt Hoch
Wayne Kral
Briggan Krauss
Rebecca Martin
Lucio Menegon
John Mettam
Matt Moran
Now's the Time
Reuben Radding
Ted Reichman
Elliott Sharp
Ches Smith

Ada Online
Ark Square
The Astronomy Picture of the Day
Barnacle Press
Bear Family
Boing Boing
CD Japan
Cinebeats
Cinematic Titanic
Daily Howler
Downtown Music Gallery
DramaWiki
Dusty Groove America
The Fate of the Artist
Film Music Society
Film Score Monthly
Get Your War On (blog)
Get Your War On (comic strip)
Godzilla Monster Music
Hang Fire Books
The Bernard Herrmann Society
Japan Society
jwz
Marlys
The Mercury Theatre on the Air
Midnight Eye
Motif Backgammon
Nabokov Online Journal
NYCnosh
Pathologically Polymathic
Pulp of the Day
Rigorous Intuition
Bruce Schneier
Sakaya
Screen Archives Entertainment
Soundtrack Collector
Sunday Press
Super Happy Fun
The Times Literary Supplement
Toho Kingdom
Tokyo Food Page
xkcd
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Curtis Hasselbring, Rob Price, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn & Shelley Burgon
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price, Jim Black, Trevor Dunn & Ellery Eskelin (photo by Scott Friedlander)

Rob Price, Chris Cawthray & Ed Zankowski (photo by by Seven Stock)

Rob Price & David Grollman
(photo by Alice Bierhorst)

Rob Price is on other CDs:

Jubilee
Alice Bierhorst

Smell the Glove
Mr. Dorgon

Dim Sum Clip Job
Harmolodic Jeopardy

Game of Death
Reprisal

APPEARANCES

Saturday, 24 May 2008

Now you can hear part two of the "Rob Price" edition of Jim Reil's radio program, "Now's the Time". It features music from At Sunset and Get Lost as well as the Cawthray/Price/Zankowski recording (download available from iTunes and Amazon) and an unreleased track from the At Sunset sessions, a recording of Jim Hall's "The Crab" (special thanks to Patrick Carayannis for helping me with that tune).

Thursday, 22 May 2008

I love reference books, particularly very specific ones. That's why I had to buy the Drive-In Theaters book as soon as I saw it. It took me about ten years to get around to reading it, though.

Here's one that's not meant to be read, merely consulted as required, a true reference book: Stuart Galbraith IV's The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. The website says "Not Yet Published" but I received my copy yesterday.

Monday, 19 May 2008

The ninth Soundtrack of the Week is this compilation, Jazz en el Cine Negro Español 1958–1964.

Most of the music is composed by José Sola. There are some sound effects and dialogue included, so perhaps isolated music tracks no longer exist. I really enjoy listening to it, though.

It reminds me a bit of some of Elmer Bernstein's work for Johnny Staccato (coming to CD soon!) and The Man with the Golden Arm, also Johnny Dankworth's cues for the Honor Blackman era of The Avengers, also some of John Barry's Bond and Beat Girl music. Sometimes it evokes the atmosphere of Nikkatsu "mood action" movies from the '60s.

Sunday, 18 May 2008

Last night I finished reading Kerry Segrave's Drive-In Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933. After I finished it, I couldn't sleep and lay awake until about 4:00, filled with dread and anxiety for some reason. Perhaps it had something to do with this photo (reproduced in the book) of Charlton Heston as Moses on a drive-in screen in Utah.

The whole time I was trying to fall asleep I had Ennio Morricone's music for The Battle of Algiers (a Pentagon favorite) stuck in my head. It's not soothing. At one point I managed to trick my brain into playing some sappy Morricone love theme instead. It worked for a few minutes but then we were back to the Algiers march. When I finally did fall asleep, I had nightmares about zombies.

Apparently there was a drive-in in the Bronx, from 1949 to 1983. During the golden age of the drive-in, many places offered free bottle-warming services for people who came with infants. At some drive-ins you could drop off your laundry on the way in and pick it up on the way out, after the movie. At some drive-ins, employees would do your grocery shopping for you while you enjoyed the show. Playgrounds and dance floors with live music were common.

The first of a very few European drive-ins was in Rome and opened on August 19, 1957. I would have liked to go to that one! It was called Drive-In Cine and offered espresso at the concession stand along with soda, popcorn, hot dogs and other typical American fare. It's capacity was 750 cars and 250 scooters.

Monday, 12 May 2008

The eighth Soundtrack of the Week is La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo (Death Laid an Egg). The movie is a giallo about murder at a poultry farm.

Thursday, 08 May 2008

Among the mp3s Lucio Menegon has posted on his Kingtone site is one of Lucio, David Grollman and me, improvising violently at Otto's Shrunken Head, a tiki bar in the East Village.

Check it out! This is the trio that will soon be playing a few shows out west, as detailed above.

Wednesday, 07 May 2008

Sometimes I wish I lived in San Francisco. Mr. Dorgon is there, of course, as are Borderlands and Kayo Books, the carne asada super burrito at Taqueria Cancun (the one on Mission and 18th), The Toronado, Amoeba Music, etc.

There's also the Castro Theatre, a genuine movie palace which will soon be showing a series of films scored by John Barry! Now that is cool!

Then in July the Castro is showing five "Animals Attacking Humans" movies in one day, including the awesome Phase IV, directed by Saul Bass, famous for film credit sequences (Vertigo, The Man with the Golden Arm) and for storyboarding the shower scene in Psycho.

Monday, 05 May 2008

The seventh Soundtrack of the Week is Onna no Keisatsu (Women's Police or Policewomen or something like that). The highlights are the songs performed by Mina Aoe.

Saturday, 03 May 2008

I just found out that Jimmy Giuffre died (on April 24th).

Giuffre's "Two for Timbuctu (One Way)", which is on the Jimmy Giuffre In Person album, was my model for "Mouse Game". (During the At Sunset sessions we also recorded an interpretation of Jim Hall's "The Crab", from the same album. This is so far unreleased though Jim Reil may play it on his May 15th radio show.)

All of Giuffre's small-ensemble recordings from the late '50s and early '60s are great. The trios with Jim Hall are my favorites.

Friday, 02 May 2008

Martin Bisi took down all the record covers on his studio wall and had a friend film it while he commented on each one. Here's a link to Part 1 of 5. At Sunset ("great record," says Martin) is at the beginning of Part 3.

I remember that the Combination No. 10 CD cover was up there at some point but I don't know if I Really Do Not See The Signal made it onto the wall. The Dim Sum Clip Job CD cover was up there too but last time I was at his studio Martin told me it had fallen down and he didn't know where it was.

Thursday, 01 May 2008

This is exciting: Sunday Press will publish a second Little Nemo in Slumberland book in July! I can't wait!