CASA BERENICE RECORDINGS PODCAST
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I have always put on house shows, wherever I have lived, but I never documented them. My all-time favorite show happened somewhere in the 90s when I lived in Echo Park, and Kraig Grady and Erin Barnes played their home-made zithers and just-intoned metallophones, which are xylophones with microtonal super powers. In that instance, the vibrations made people hang off doors, and pieces of the ceiling splashed into the punch. At some point we understood that special shows were happening in our living room, and we began recording them. In early 2019, this podcast was born. Clay Chaplin records the musicians; I make some food and batten down the hatches, and then we both interview the artists after the night is done. Here's what we have so far.

Ep 13 Vinny Golia and his giant horns: talk to us!  //  Ep 12 Ghost Ensemble, or some of them anyway. NY improvisations
Ep 11 Matt Barbier the cool beatings of trombone and pre-recorded tones // Ep 10 Heather Lockie & Laura Steenberge old old old folk songs, done new  //  Ep 9 Daniel Brummel & Emily Lacy ambient stuff in lovely harmony  //  Ep 8 Cari Stevens fricking amazing singer/songwriter  //  Ep 7 Erika Bell mournful pop ballads but not with I-IV-V's  //  Ep 6 Stoop (Steven Van Betten and Cooper Wolken) inspiration beyond belief  //  Ep 5 Liam Mooney triangles... triangles... triangles  //  Ep 4 Feeney Chaplin Sumner such patient improvisations  //  Ep 3 Chaplin Lockie Shahab Trio prepared piano viola harpsichord... and shadows on the ceiling  //  Ep 2 Kat & Ben (Shuman and Finley) voice and acoustic bass, the stuff of angels  //  Ep 1 Stephanie Cheng Smith violin and electronics, in a beautiful and kind of creepy composition