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(Updated: September 5, 2010) Haiku Funeral has been very active lately. We just released HELL, a special edition 3.5" CD release on the Dutch label Witte Dood. We also recently contributed a track to Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque: a Second Reading, which is a dark ambient tribute to Edgar Allan Poe that was released by the French netlabel Quartier 23. Haiku Funeral's forthcoming CD will be released, appropriately enough, on Halloween night of 2010 by the Danish experimental label Hikikomori Records. (Hikikomori released our debut CD, Assassination in the Hashish Cathedral, on Halloween night of 2009.)  Haiku Funeral will be performing live in Marseille, France at the Les Inovendables music festival on November 13, 2010. Yeti Rain's new CD III is now available! The big news is that we've expanded from a duo to a trio, adding Craig Walkner (Far Corner, Snarling Adjective Convention, Justin Black & Big Heart) on acoustic and electronic drums. Like our second CD Nest of Storms, III was released on the Crimsonic label from Sweden. For more details, please see the DISCOGRAPHY page.  I've been playing quite a lot in France with Lunar Fugue, an instrumental trio consisting of myself, guitarist Alex Brachet, and Max Guerin on drums. We primarily play covers of virtuoso rock guitarists (Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, John Petrucci, etc) but we play original instrumentals as well and are working on our debut CD. For our live schedule, and to see videos of the band in action, please visit our myspace site: www.myspace.com/lunarfugue. Here's a video of LF performing Steve Vai's "For the love of God": The new Spirits Burning CD, Crazy Fluid, was recently released on the Voiceprint label. I played fretless bass on two tracks. The disc features the talents of several famous space/psych rockers, most notably Daevid Allen from Gong. For more info, please visit my DISCOGRAPHY page.  I've finished recording bass parts for the forthcoming Par Lindh Project CD, Timemirror. This is the first studio CD from PLP in over ten years. The line-up is Par on keys, me on basses, Al Lewis (from Starcastle) on vocals, and four different drummers (Al Lewis, Svetlan Racket, Stefan Bergman, and even Par on one track!). Look for an early winter 2010 release. Tour dates to follow.  PLP live in Poland On April 25, 2010 I was interviewed on Outsight Radio Hours. I discussed the genesis of Haiku Funeral, the recording of our debut CD Assassination in the Hashish Cathedral, and what's new for the group. The interview has been archived and can be listened to here.  A myspace tribute page has been created to pay honor to the life and talent of my younger brother Paul (drummer of the band KOPECKY) who tragically passed away in June of '09 due to juvenile diabetes-related complications. Please visit the site (www.myspace.com/paulkopeckytribute) and send a friends request or post a comment. Thanks so much to everyone for sending your kind thoughts and condolences. We heard from fans all over the world, and it's painfully evident that he will be missed by many. Rest in peace, dear brother... |