I’m collaborating with some people here in Tokyo on a new music project, called the East Village Project, and wanted to share our first track. It’s mainly me and a guy called Ted Nova (aka Mr Ratboy) who played guitar in NYC for a long time in a band called Sour Jazz, as well as touring with Marky Ramone from the Ramones, Bebe Buell, and many others. He managed a record shop on St Marks for a long time and I used to live in NYC’s East Village as well back in the day, hence the name.
We’re doing a sort of lofi jazz/experimental thing (we bonded over Strata East over beers one night, which is how this began). I played the Moog (Grandmother) and Rhodes. He’s on the bass and played the piano. I also did the drum arrangement and mixing as well. I’m still learning Final Cut, so don’t view that video at too high a resolution. Haha.