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Nika States is a photographer and musician living in Oakland, California. She shoots with a Minolta x-700, a Canon AE-1, or a Canon 5D MII, and would love to take pictures of you. She sings and writes songs on an assortment of guitars, none of which are ever tuned to E standard. She is not allowed to refuse offers to play out. If you'd like to get in touch with her, please write to nikastates at gmail dot com
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Hey everyone, here’s a premiere track from the new Diamond Dogs cover album I’m doing.
I’m a Bowie obsessive and Diamond Dogs has always fascinated me. It’s often overlooked among fans and it’s very hard to place in his 70s output. I think it’s a drugged out masterpiece, an abandoned Orwellian concept album that has the most playing Bowie ever did on one of his records.
The best moments on this record are heartbreaking. I was not deferent to Bowie: I translated lyrics into German, chopped verses, moved bridges, changed chords, and otherwise ran roughshod over this beast.
I’m releasing it as an audiophile 200g vinyl pressing, limited to 500. It’s also bundled with my new album, Dagger Beach. Both are available for pre-order on my Kickstarter.
I’m quite pleased to announce the pending release of PANACEA, a photo book I’ve been working on with Tim Gatto of BIT BY ZEUS for the last year. It’s been a labor of love, and I can’t wait to share it with you all.
The book features the work of 37 different photographers and will be officially released February 1st, 2013 at MUA Oakland. PANACEA is printed color offset, 8.5″ x 11″ and will be limited to 100 copies. In addition, there will also be photo show hanging at MUA, featuring the photographers from the book. It’ll be first friday: Oakland Art Murmur
We just picked up the final printed books yesterday, and will be releasing first look photos shortly, so stay tuned.
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- willstratton: This is a draft of a new song called “Do You Love Where You Live?” I guess the way to put the news I got this week is that I have had to do some revising of my own expectations about the process of transcending this disease. I went into my appointment for the CT scan thinking that I’d be in for a single surgery in January with a fairly quick recovery time—maybe a month. It turns out that the reality, as is so often the case, is more complex. The four cycles of chemotherapy likely took care of all or nearly all of the cancer. But that is only part of the problem—the disease that remains may not be malignant, but it is still growing and needs to be removed, and it is extensive. I will likely be going through three surgeries, possibly more, starting in February. In the meantime my “job” is to get as strong and healthy as possible. I don’t want to speculate any more about when I will be rid of all of this, given all of the variables that remain, but it will not be earlier than six months from now. I’m not going to lie—this is disappointing, and it is not always easy to be brave or optimistic or even positive right now. But I take heart in knowing the people I know, and knowing what may await me when the last scalpel has been put away and the last stitch has healed. I miss you guys. I saw a movie tonight, Flame & Citron, set in Denmark during the Second World War. It reminded me of how much I enjoyed my time in Denmark. I really hope I get to go back there in the next few years. Those men and women in the resistance were terribly brave.
(No streaming audio available)472 plays - willstratton: This song is a draft, possibly the title track of my upcoming fifth album. It is called “Dreams of Big Sur.” The photograph is by Nika States. Will, you ought really to come back to California.
(No streaming audio available)2666 plays - red steppes - tenderness from a live set we played at Subterranean Arthouse in Berkeley a while back. you can download this and a couple other tracks over there on soundcloud, for free free free. lyrics are thus: which one is the rube? in the eggy light, two shuddering spoons when i’m not warm and you’re not soothed which hand holds the distance? which hand holds the hollow moon? you’re a fish in the road; the pickled gills go seizing at the stone. when they won’t swallow what won’t lead them home don’t make me your scavenger don’t call me your lucky crow there’s the summer’s pall at the cattle gate, at the rattling wall and you dog, you bark before you balk you shout at the cloudy bank you shy when that bank decides to walk but I go out in that soup, in the muddy bile and bruised chamomile bloom and I am sick with it, I am sick as you and that fog is a thicket that fog is a quiet, clicking womb from the cancerous month with your shallow chest and my shivering lung comes a bad bad joke, but a pious one: that hymn we both bellowed at the quarry’s rim, in the gloaming going gone Tenderness, you said - I need tenderness you said: for once, be bold be soft be close
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- A whole herd of cows just ran away from me. Scary Nikabeast. I wasn't even wearing my cow skull.
- Happy year-end celebratory times, everybody. Have some awesome free music: http://t.co/KHKGjT5WDec 25, 12 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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- At Walgreens a stuffed bear is singing k-pop
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