All I was saying is-

     We have our O.G. (Original Gardes) movie, Only An Impression, available right here
for download-to-own  and  download-to-rent-  OR there's also a hard copy DVD, too,
for those enthusiasts of tangible artifacts. Also, here's one of the latest reviews from the
Gazette concerning our new album-  more coming soon!

6-29-11 P.S.

and the post below, like this one probably, is all jumbled up
in the formatting, and it's typed in perfect form before it's
published, and I usually go back and mess with it and re-publish
it several times so the paragraph doesn't look like it got drunk
and crashed, and so I grow weary of too much time spent on a computer.
I went out on a boat on the water tonight, and it was nice.

6-29-year of Eleven

      Fell out of the rhythm with this thing, friends, but that doesn't mean it's over.
Like I've said before, maybe it'll sink into a regular weekly column sometime,
which I'd originally intended it to be.  When it's ever been close
to that, I guess at best it was a seasonal column, but for now, I'm just throwing out
a word.  It's kind of hard sometimes to write a weekly letter to hundreds of people
without being a bit self-conscious and over-thinking it- you feel you're being personal
but you're not really one on one, so it's weird, but it's a bang of fun when feeling in
the groove, and I appreciate the comments from you who take the time to reply.
     So for now, just been overly busy with developing facets of the label that have
always been neglected, and it's a time consumer.  I'll never speak much of deadlines anymore,
because many of these things appear deceptively simple, and then drag on to encompass mass
amounts of time.  Even just now, I'm attempting a simple blog, and I've already written this and saved
it, but the connection was lost when I published it, and half of it was lost.  So now I'm retyping.
So I'll type the jist of what I was going to say soon, because this has now taken too much time.


  

Only An Impression now available!

The 1st Gardes movie is now finally available as a DVD for worldwide order!  Just click on the cover above or right here and it'll take you through the process to have one delivered to your front door...   This should also be available for rent through your online screen at Amazon very soon.

Or, if you just visit the music store at www.thegardes.com you can order it there.  We have new physical compact discs available for the first time in a long while of the following titles- Legends Of Voddville, O My Garde!, Regardeless 1 and Dos and a brand new, first-time printing of Regardeless the Third.  Don't forget the new album, too, Make Out The Sound.  All of these are available here. 

We look forward to making our first vinyl record as one of our next projects.  Stay tuned, there will be a new digital and physical album compilation coming from lo-fi, bedroom feedback folk/rocker, Sad Sad Bicycle.

New album now available-

You can listen to it here and buy a digital download if you so desire.  If you want a compact disc, if you're a die-hard lover of things you can touch, you can also order that through this link, and that comes with an automatic download.

Check out the new album here

Make Out The Sound is MADE-

well, almost, anyway, just need to do some printing and cutting and stuffing-

Handmade in the U.S. of A.

featuring artwork by Aaron Frisby, Angela Renee Chase, Victoria Orlowski, and moi 

(except I ripped my drawing off from a Todd Golnick doodle I once saw- with

consent. Mine's the ugly drawing on notebook paper.)

Come one, Come all to VZD's  next Friday night, May 6th, for the Gardes' new album release.

It kicks off at 10 pm with a stellar set by Sad Sad Bicycle and the Gardes will

be taking the stage around 11ish, going on second.  The Gussissin will then be playing

out the rest of the night.

Sad Sad Bicycle will be playing at the Norman Music Festival this Fri. night, April 29th,

at 8 p.m. on the DOJO stage- 2 blocks east of the Main Stage.  

The Gussissin will be playing the Norman Music Festival on Sat. April 30th at 2 pm on

the Zanzibar stage.

Also, I wanted to warn people that see this booked as the Gardes that, unfortunately, Aaron Siemers will be absent for this show.  He's played at every Gardes show except the very first one, I believe- not counting a few times when the band was booked but couldn't make it so I showed up to do a solo spot. Due to situations, he won't be making it back to OK for a bit after this, and when we had the slot open at VZD's, we decided to go ahead and release the album we made and do our live rendition of it.   We did however make the album with Aaron, and he is playing on it.  Tanner, our bass player for our most "live band about town" era, also makes an appearance on the record.  I have no intention of being an Axl Rose or Billy Corgan, i.e. playing in a band with no original members, but whatever, let's not take it all so seriously- and I don't think too many people can be accused of that with the state they've left me in, haha.  The bastards.  An alternate name for this band could just be called Make Out The Sound- we almost used that as a new band name, but screw it- what difference does it make in the end? We all die. So let's live.

For the show, our friend, Aunk of Stillwater- full-name- Aunkohau Tsoodle, will be playing the bass and Beau Jennings of the Gussissin will be providing the drums.  I'll be singing and playing along w/ Victoria O.   

Picking back up the blog/newsletter.

Album Release Show- VZD's, May 6th, Friday Night-

New Album- MAKE OUT THE SOUND by the Gardes

also featuring Sad Sad Bicycle  and  The Gussissin

collage by Angela Renee Chase,

flier by the Frank Lava Group

About this:

I'd been thinking about doing a few Gardes albums with Aaron Cord at some point, bringing in a female singer to switch up some of the ingredients, and it sounded like a plan.   I wrote several songs and began singing them with Victoria Pickle, who once performed on stage with me as "Peanut", playing a Planters can, which, by the way, makes for a great percussion instrument.  Soon, we had enough for an album's worth and she and I were in a cottage in Hawaii, originally built for the purpose of being a recording studio, as yet unused- so with a click of a button, we began recording on Pickle's sister's laptop.  This was intended to be done within a few days just to reflect the duo performance we'd given lately, so we were going to call it Make Out The Sound.  However, next, we met with Aaron in Portland, who immediately got the itch to throw down bass, percussion, etc. and soon it was decided to be the Gardes, and the album was entitled Make Out The Sound.  Now, the Gardes has shapeshifted once again.  It's a monster I can't really control.  Hope you can make it out.