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Mettle Lark to Debut New Track ‘Monsters’ on January 3

Kai Strandskov — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:32:47 +0000

Just a quick announcement here that Mettle Lark will be releasing a new single “Monsters” on Jan 3 at our party at The Tractor here in Seattle. I hope to …

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Oscillating Forever

Kai Strandskov — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 05:03:54 +0000

After two years of performing and recording and touring, Everything Oscillating has come to a close. It’s kind of astounding any music project involving more than one person ever gets off the ground. Even if you come together on the music, everyone is such a different person, with different motivations and opinions. And then beyond that, there are all the events and conditions that are out of everyone’s control. In the end, it was just a simple matter of timing that brought this project to a close: it was time for the bass player to inevitably move back east to be with family. It was always in the cards, but finally that’s the hand we were dealt.

This kind of thing is sadly all too common. But on the other hand, we had some fun times and got an amazing recording out of it.

The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Everything Oscillating

I’m truly proud of the record, and I feel like it’s one of the rare moments that I was able to “say” most of what I intended. One of my favorite recordings for sure.

Thanks for those who came out and wished Mike farewell and cheered us on one last time. It was an honor to share the bill with Moon Letters and Authentic Luxury. And Mike, anywhere you go, great music will be made. I’m looking forward to your next chapter. But for now, here’s the final show in entirety.

For the sake of completion, I should also mention that we did create a music video for the opening track on the album. Thanks so much for your support, coming out to shows, listening to the record, and encouraging us to keep going. It really meant a lot.

Everything Oscillating – news and video

Kai Strandskov — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 06:10:02 +0000

Everything Oscillating is announcing we will be releasing an album on January 11, 2024! The vinyl is in preproduction and will be released sometime after that. This is an absolutely beautiful and clear sounding album that we are all excited and proud of! More details to come soon.

In the meantime, here’s our recent performance on October 26, 2023 at the Blue Moon Tavern. So cool that they live stream everything and have an amazing archive of performances. In this video, we’re up first. I highly, highly recommend that you watch the whole thing. Bad Luck and Authentic Luxury are both just inspiring to the eyes and ears and, if you were present that night, the nose.

Video from Rumba Kings at the Triple Door

Kai Strandskov — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:07:23 +0000

Recently I was honored to perform with the Rumba Kings at the Triple Door. Two sold out nights of emotional Mediterranean music, November 19th and 20th, 2021.

Here is one excerpt from the second night. Our rendition of Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. Enjoy!

https://fb.watch/9sRPz2Pr1f/

More videos are being added on social media and on the band website.

Playing along to Siberian Khatru

Kai Strandskov — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:44:29 +0000

During the pandemic, I’ve been learning a bunch of songs that I always wanted to get around to, but didn’t ever find the time. Now I’m finding the time. There is a long list of Yes songs, but I had to start with the funkiest one: Siberian Khatru. By putting this out there on youtube, it forces me to treat this like I would any other song, and really dig into the details and play as clean as I can. Enjoy!

Into the Trash (Roland V-Drum demo tune)

Kai Strandskov — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:04:13 +0000

I finally got set up at home to record myself playing, so I thought I’d start out with this demo song that’s right there on the v-drums that I practice on. There are a whole series of these demo songs that are included in the TD-30, I guess to sort of get the new electronic drummer jumpstarted with something to play along to. These demo songs totally crack me up, despite being actually well composed and performed. So, I might do a series on these, depending on if any of the others grab my ear. I think Into the Trash is an instant classic, though. There are an infinite number of ways to interpret the drums on this song, so I hope you enjoy my personal take on it.

Love and Fury at Slim’s

Kai Strandskov — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 08:03:19 +0000

Just recently Love and Fury performed outdoors at Slim’s here in Seattle. It was an amazing evening sharing the stage with Sky Cries Mary, and Virago. Here’s a playlist of the entire evening…

It was a great close to a chapter in our lives. We now move on to songwriting for the next album. Stay tuned!

Spasmo

Kai Strandskov — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:43:45 +0000

Spasmo played our first show the other day! We have another coming up on July 25th, and then our third is opening for Behold the Arctopus on August 3rd.

Good to be playing with Stuart Dahlquist again. Met him when I toured with Dama/Libra. Nathan Donnel is on vox. Marshall McLaughlin is on guitar. Stuart and Marshall were in Pink Muscles. Marshall’s written all the songs so far, but we’ll probably all contribute eventually.

CHAOS. Okay, here’s Adam Noble Bass’s video of us from our first night:

Stay tuned for a demo.

Stereo Creeps on the Spud Goodman Show

Kai Strandskov — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 07:55:37 +0000

We headed down to Tacoma and had a nice evening in the studio on the Spud Goodman Show. Really cool to see the operation from the inside, and everyone was super hospitable, and we had a blast!

The show also featured some folks you may have heard of, like C. Thomas Howell and Margaret Cho, and others. Pretty awesome!

The whole thing is streaming on the web, or just check out one of the songs we played right heeya:

Rock lottery, part 3

Kai Strandskov — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:16:37 +0000

Continued from part 2. This was our last song from that night. Enjoy.