 2009 TINY LITTLE BLACKOUTS WELCOME to the NEW home page for ROBOT123 RECORDS TINY LITTLE BLACKOUTS December 2009 Release idea of Alice is now available. 3rd review: many thanks to Abbey K Davis at Muzikreviews.com "Tiny Little Blackouts is what indie musicians often strive for and fail at, which has turned the genre into a cliché: delightful music with just the right amount of irony...Tiny Little Blackouts say they make music they like and they hope you'll like it, too. They've definitely done their job – you'll love it." 2nd Awesome review now out thanks to Absolute Zero Media Magazine Very nice online zine, please check it out. "Tiny Little Blackouts are making me fall in love with pop music for the 1st time in years." 1st review is out! Thanks to unpeeled! "They're from San Francisco and they're adding beautifully disquieting touches to slick indie guitar slow burn on their debut album, "Idea Of Alice"." **************************************** Comprised of experienced San Francisco musicians, Tiny Little Blackouts makes sweet music. It's pretty, but not vacuous, slightly mournful, but not sad or dark. Tiny Little Blackouts is 50% sound-based and 50% lyric-driven, with the best comparison based on Cocteau Twins meets Elliot Smith, with some Led Zepplin thrown in for good measure. **************************************** 2009 Album out NOW!  Buying individual mp3s will happen soon here: If you are interested in licensing songs, please visit our EPK on Sonicbids:  View Tiny Little Blackouts' EPK Instrumental versions are available by request. ********************************************************** Formed in 2009, Tiny Little Blackouts is a new San Francisco indie rock band with songs in the vein of Cocteau Twins, Low, Elliot Smith. This is original, ethereal, atmospheric stuff. We make music we like and we hope you will like it too. Our drummer, Anthony, has played all the good venues in town with his previous band, Red House Painters. Michael, our guitarist has played with probably 100 different bands, including Matt Nathanson, Lilyvolt, Orange, Mad Cattle Ensemble and lots of others. He has been playing guitar pretty much always and is the lead guitarist. Cameron Ember has only been playing guitar for a couple of years, but writes all the songs and music and contributes vocals plus buried and fuzzy guitar. Gregory Merriman lives in Marin and plays bass when not consulting with audiophiles about installation of high-end sound equipment in their homes or enjoying equipment discussions with Michael Papenburg. Damien Rasmussen engineered and produced, along with Tiny Little Blackouts. Recorded in a garage called the Catacombs located off Capp Street in San Francisco. Damien's thing is called smokeandmirrorsaudio. Tiny Little Blackouts co-produced the album with Damien. It's called "idea of Alice". Tiny Little Blackouts LYRICS ********************************* HAPPY IS DEAD FOR NOW we think we might be animals, turning in a mill or higher beings yet, radiant and still biology is a force, makes me forget what was I thinking? seems tragic, and yet... I am blending more and more into the wine I drink things that used to matter so mean less than I used to think I am swimming in a different kind of everything my raft has taken to open sea hold me down and count to three troubled breathing while I try to swim throw me a line and pull me in I thought I would be free at last from the tyranny of social scenes past from the symphony of others' thoughts from opinions that are sold and bought my raft has taken to open sea hold me down and count to three troubled breathing while I try to swim throw me a line and pull me in *************************************************** Some of Cameron Ember's solo and collaborative past recordings/collaborations have been included in feature film (Wayne Wang's "Center of the World"), and compilation CDs ("Invocation" on Six Degrees also featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and "Fireworks" on The Unquiet Grave compilation put out on Cleopatra Records). 2 songs were recently sold to a company that does music for shows like TMZ and Blind Date. They were sold in their entirety, including the master, so those two went bye-bye for good. Oh well. 2009 Episode of Roatrip Nation Action Sports/ Fuel TV features music by CAMERON EMBER! Check the closing credits of Episode 5 HERE Be sure to scroll down and click on EPISODE 5 The song is at the END, sorry Thanks Roadtrip Nation! From their release: Entering its fifth season on PBS, Roadtrip Nation is a documentary series featuring the summer journeys of twenty-somethings as they roadtrip across America, seeking words of wisdom from people who have defined their own paths in life. Past roadtrip participants have interviewed everyone from the CEO of Starbucks to Manny the Lobsterman in Maine. Music has always played a key role in the films of Roadtrip Productions (RTP), and this year will be no exception. RTP is committed to supporting independent artists by exposing their music to wider audiences and showcasing it on the RTP website. They do not use major label music! Artists you may have heard of that have been featured on their show include: Caribou, Jack Johnson, Sufjan Stevens, Xavier Rudd, White Buffalo, Brett Dennen and many more. This year, Roadtrip Nation has expanded from a 12 part documentary series on PBS to include a video hub on MSN.com, an online exclusive series (roadtripnation.com), a nation wide college campus tour (where they distributed over 3,000 soundtracks featuring their favorite musicians from the 2007 series), and more. The documentary will air on PBS and other formats in the fall of 2008, and the DVD release will follow. SEPT-OCT 2008: CAMERON EMBER Videos are now onYOUTUBE These are from Cameron Ember's "Sea Creature" days, an album produced in collaboration with Erik Ian Walker. Videos include "Serotonin", "Sea Creature" and "For You". Feb 2008 New live studio recording album is now available: The Vengeful Pigeon http://www.cafepress.com/cameronember Available on iTunes ********************* To listen to the sounds of Cameron Ember, just click on STORE and you will be taken to Cafe Press. When you click on a specific album, you will be able to listen to 1 minute clips of individual songs. Many of these songs are available for purchase on iTunes & other digital outlets. Or you can purchase the album at CafePress and it will be mailed to you! ********************** Just wanted to let you know that very OLD videos will be online soon. We have 8 music videos for Sea Creature songs, not all of which should be let loose in public venues...Also, a couple of disturbing art films about adventures in SF. STAY TUNED!!!! Also, another tiny album wants to be birthed soon. We have the cover already, just not the recordings. Nov 2007 WHAT Does Cameron Ember SOUND Like? Let's say you went to the Iceland Airwaves Festival and the Blue Lagoon and drove around looking at cute Viking horses and fluffy sheep. Then you headed home on Iceland Air and began listening to the In-Flight Music Channels 1-10. Cameron Ember would most likely be heard on Channel 5, "SMOOTH EASY LISTENING". No, Cameron Ember does not sound like Sting, Rod Stewart or the Goo Goo Dolls, who all have songs played on Channel 5. But Cameron Ember could be played comfortably next to some of the other artists on this channel: Elliott Smith (Punch and Judy), Jeff Buckley (Hallelujah), Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Into My Arms), Radiohead (Fake Plastic Trees), Jose Gonzalez (Heartbeats), etc. It would either be Channel 5 or 8, "SOUND GLACIER (New Age), which plays Sigur Ros, Bjork and Enya...probably stick with 5 because of the songwriting. All tracks on the latest 2 Cameron Ember eps were recorded & engineered at home by Cameron Ember. No vocal effect (other than multi-tracking), non-linear editing or pitch correction was used. New Review on CHURCH OF GIRL "What All Schoolchildren Learn" is now for sale on iTunes! Cameron Ember's new album, "What All Schoolchildren Learn/ The Convenience of Fascism" is now available. Check the Music page to hear 1 minute clips. Cameron Ember now has digital distribution and songs for the new album can be purchased and downloaded individually on various websites. Cameron Ember is now featured on Dig This Real http://www.digthisreal.com. |
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