Swim Ignorant Fire

2012-01-04T17:02:00.000-08:00

Weddings & Funerals is up for Streaming and Pre-Order

Weddings & Funerals by Swim Ignorant Fire

2011-11-22T14:57:00.001-08:00

New Review of Last Days from Sound Colour Vibration

Weddings & Funerals is slowly coming to completion, Here's a preview of whats to come in 201234:

One Breath Closer to Death by swimignorantfire

In the Interval between Grasp & Reach by swimignorantfire

2011-11-01T16:00:00.000-07:00

2 new reviews of Last Days came in this week :

SOINOISE

Sweet Stuff!

2011-10-25T23:26:00.001-07:00

VEYOU - Carcass in the Mist Review

2011-10-03T11:38:00.000-07:00

"Half machines and half atmosphere, the pair capture most of what’s right with experimental music in the time it takes most folks to decide they’ll scrap their set." - AnimalPSI

2011-09-29T19:28:00.001-07:00

Final Tweaks on the upcoming Archaic Smile 7" are in progress; while custom artwork by Pete Bialecki are now being printed..

Here is a sneak peak at how things are molding:

Archaic Smile - An Arm and a Leg II by swimignorantfire

The new VEYOU is now available through Pilgrim Talk

mp3 can be found there.

2011-08-27T16:56:00.000-07:00

2011-08-24T11:44:00.000-07:00

The Archaic Smile

2011-07-21T13:38:00.000-07:00

I will be playing all new material set for the upcoming EP, Weddings & Funerals on July 25th in between bands at the new venue, Ultra Lounge.

A new recording project has been in embryo over the last few months and is finally coming together;
all source material coming from this release has been stemmed from a mushroom induced collaboration of skin on a kitchen countertop. More and More max patches have been built in processing these sounds to get an oddly amusing turnout and the project has been appropriately titled, The Archaic Smile.
More details coming soon......

In the Interval between Grasp & Reach

2011-05-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

In the Interval between grasp & reach by swimignorantfire

Carcass in the Mist

2011-05-01T11:25:00.000-07:00

New Veyou Tape is now available through Pilgrim Talk

Veyou is a duo collaboration between myself and Nick Hoffman (Pilgrim Talk / Scissor Death) and this tape commemorates our only live performance at Metal Shaker, which was last winter while I was on tour with Boar.

The bar and room itself becomes an accompanying instrument along with this desolate and dynamic performance: bathroom door creaks, winter coughs, and glass/bar chatter - It really pulls you into to not only focus on the music but the activity inside the room.

audio samples and more info available at pilgrimtalk.com
50 copies - silkscreened covers by NH
$6 ppd US

Tapes!

2011-02-23T08:55:00.000-08:00

"Last Days" is now available through Scotch Tapes in Canada!

The Count Brent Split was dubbed last week and is also available through Lazy Roar Records.

We'll always have Pish Posh

2011-01-16T12:09:00.001-08:00

Mixed now being mastered.....

2010-10-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

The new album is finally finished and was mailed off to Rob Kleiner (TubRing, Super 8-bit Brothers) today to be mastered. I cant wait to share this album with everyone, its been almost 2 years in the making and has finally come to fruition.

The final track list is as follows:

1. Last Days of Man

2. Easy as Breathing

3. Postal Claim

4. A Jealous God Forgotten

5. untitled

6. I'm all Better

7. Man-Made Abomination

Whale Procession

2010-07-18T14:28:00.000-07:00

Besides finding myself in disbelief from the amount of trauma that BP oil has brought into our ecosystem, I've been attempting to use my music as an aid to my overall frustration within this devastation.

In turn, I've been using several aquatic animal samples within my recent shows and have been thinking about using this track as part of a release themed around our potential man-made apocalypse from BP oil

................... as our sea slowly turns to black.

Ocean Procession by swimignorantfire

Last Days of Man

2010-04-25T10:58:00.000-07:00

Last Days of Man by swimignorantfire

Its inside you,

This baby will soon die in its mothers arms.
Softly squeezing
A Gentle Homicide -
Shadows inside the skirt of death
Teasing and eating you out
Embolism following
A bubble straight to her heart.

Easter

2010-04-04T09:16:00.000-07:00

I was asked by my friend Jeremy Armstrong to be a part of his collaborative BoKnows remix album - in which all participating artists will layer over an initial loop from his demo, and then those layers are sent to be remixed and placed accordingly by the engineer of the overall album. Here's the song I chose to use; including all layers and the initial loop from the first track of this "loop" demo given to the collaborative artists.

BoKnows collab rough draft by swimignorantfire

With the transmission of my car pooping out, I have been reconfiguring/minimizing my set up to make it more bike friendly for shows this summer. Here's an idea I recorded by just using my Line6 DD4, Boss RC-20XL, and Guitar.

The sun went shining by swimignorantfire

Within The Body

2010-03-17T08:59:00.000-07:00

Here's some coverage from a recent art show I played a couple weeks ago.

"Within The Body"

Special Thanks to Sophia Moreno!

The Child City

2010-03-17T08:43:00.000-07:00

In Austin, Texas I had the opportunity to play a Moose Lodge and was given the history of the Moose community and so forth. The Moose Community has two places where a majority of their funds are sent to: Moose Heart and Moose Haven. Moose Haven is a place in Florida where Moose members may go for their retirement. Moose Heart is rural town in Illinois about 45 minutes away from the city that is completely devoted to raising orphan children and giving them broader opportunities that they might not have ever had. I have been shooting a documentary about this town since I have returned from tour and am looking to screening this at the end of my semester. This is a picture of the Documentary Crew and Kurt Wehrmeister (Public Affairs) on our last day of shooting last week. Kurt was a god send and a huge help for this documentary.

Back to Reality

2010-03-17T07:49:00.000-07:00

The Winter break was all in all a great time, and will probably one of the last month long tours I plan on scheduling. On our last date in San Francisco, We started a 12 hour scheduling system between the people in the van which was quite treacherous but was sufficient with the amount of time it took for us to get back home. 2 dudes manning the front (9-8) during the day as the others slept and vice verse around with Patrick from Boar and I's night shift around 9pm to 8am. You never know how nostalgic you're going to get when its 5 am and the sun begins to rise over the Arizona mountains - and all thats left to listen to is Patricks Headbangers Ball CD as we begun to quiz each other in naming what nu-metal band was next. WE returned safely, broke, tired, and hardened from the road.

Delirious, hungry, broke, and calling all of my friends who have yet pick up my 7" in exchange for gas money; I drove into my hometown (Bloomington-Normal) hauling an empty 18-passenger van with me at 9am. I had an amazing brunch and conversation with my father and brother and was lucky enough to hop on to a show later that night in "uptown" Normal at the Acme Music Hall. Karl from BloNoShows was a great help in adding me to the bill in such short notice, which included: Citizen Stab and Lexicon. I used to play bass in Citizen Stab which was originally an dark-jazzy-improvisational group which would sometimes consists of 8-10 members or 4-5 members at a time. Now, Citizen Stab resides the name in a more minimal configuration between Nathan Parks i.e Natronicus - who is an absolutely gifted piano player and all around amazing artist/friend in the Blo/No area and his new drummer, Ryan Tauscher. This show made it more than possible for me to arrive back to Chicago with a fresh tank of gas, oil change, and a peaceful state of mind.

For this;

Everyone from Acme Music Hall and who came out that night - deserves a huge thank you for helping me when I literally had no funds to get back home by making a bittersweet ending to my long month on the road. Being able to have some kind of "Homecoming" show is always a great way to end a tour of any size.

Along with additional wasted time last week there are a few more places to find me:

and

Amidst all of these daily distractions I will be updating my Soundcloud account the most with different demos or clips from my new album this summer. I just wanted a place where I could upload rough and newer songs that I record throughout my weeks and post the demo versions up along for feedback.

WELL!!! Here's a few already!!!

A Jealous God Forgotten by swimignorantfire

Noprah improv #2 by swimignorantfire

Texas!

2010-01-15T21:07:00.001-08:00

1st half of Tour

2010-01-09T09:46:00.000-08:00

Our first nipply night of the tour was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at the Borg Ward. Apparently, they pull out the big guns whenever there is a noise show. On top of two horns, 3 monitor bass amps and 2 JBL towers were added to this show. I was probably the loudest I have ever been in Milwaukee; the towers were looking like two rings of fire from the back of the house.

The rest of the weekend we stayed in Chicago playing two nights. Our first night was at the Metal Shaker where my Blo-No-Drone-Duo VEYOU with Nick Hoffman, had its first performance.

The next night was probably one of our most successful nights of the tour where we played at The Mopery in Chicago, Ill. I thought Winters in Osaka’s set was amazing as well as all the others. The Mopery is always a packed house and pretty receptive to anything unusual.

Soon enough, we headed South to Nashville, TN and got a chance to fill sometime with a Dave and Busters and eat some pretty amazing Macaroni and Cheese. I spent the rest of my time playing shooter games like Time Crisis, Aliens, and Rambo. Patrick from Boar apparently is obsessed with claw games and any other kind of bullshit sucker games you will find at a truck stop. This kid will definitely make you wait another ten minutes for him no matter where you have to go if any store or gas station you are at has a goddamn claw game. Surprisingly enough, he’s also really good at it. So far we have a penguin named Frank #2 and a pink teddy bear named Pickles. I can imagine our stuffed animal inventory will definitely be booming by the time we’ve reached the west coast. Patrick also has just as much of an affinity for Taco Bell as much as I do, Its good to know someone is on your side when its time to pullover and eat. It’s a bean burrito heaven lately here.

The next day was New Years Eve as we head to Louisiana. We stopped in Mississippi to celebrate in a hotel. Unfortunately a lot of our festivities were caught on tape as well, and this includes some Mangina from yours truly. We woke up early to get the “continental” breakfast, which was a great spread of endless orange juice and bagels. Later On, We played in Hammond, Louisiana. It was scheduled to be at a Skate Park but due to Dangerous Sounds founder Corbett being so cool, we moved it to his house. We surprising sold a lot of Merch that gave us just enough gas money to get back to the cold Midwest.

Dangerous Sounds will be releasing my full length for the new year in 2010. Corbetts a really cool dude and even though this was a small house show, the ears and spirits were definitely high while being surrounded by a somewhat miserable town in Louisiana, or maybe I'm just being presumptuous by the Taco Bell employees.

This drive up north was our first attempt to sleep in the van in the middle of winter, I knew this wasn’t going to happen unless I was drunk or something. So in celebration of me not having to drive that night, Alex and I bought a case of beer to slam in the van on the way up. After 5 hours of driving and Taco Bell ass and pissing in Growlers we stopped in a rest area to have some horrible sleep, which only lasted till dawn until we hit the road again. Drowsier than ever we pass through Memphis and had only 2 hours left before St.Louis before we got a hotel and mauled at a Chinese Buffet. It was a great day of rest ending in a Hot Tub Volleyball match and a good amount of sleep. Lemp Center was the next day and is always a good time chatting with Mark Sarich from LNAC, Seriously the coolest man on this tour. Being in Lemp is always a warm time, good food, good morale, and a lot of couches! It was wonderful to sleep on a couch and get a set of rest before Des Moines, IA the next day. Kyle Miller and Mathew Crowe joined us on the bill at Vaudeville Mews in Downtown Des Moines, It was finally a good chance to meet these guys. We all had an improve collaboration with their set and from what I remember was pretty damn loud! Two guitars, vox, drums, and keys.

I’ve never had spaghetti pizza until I visited Alex in Iowa. There’s a place called Happy Joe’s in the Iowa area, and everyone has been talking this place up ever since we’ve been on the road. Finally as we end our first 10-day leg of the tour in Iowa , I finally had the chance to dive into this wonderland of sauce, noodles, and crusty goodness. We have been staying in Iowa that last couple of days to rest up and edit and export tour videos, cook spaghetti, and practice our 3 songs collaborative set for the west end of the tour.

We had practice last night in a grandma and grandpas basement, the 3 songs we’re performing for our collab went overall pretty well and I cant wait to play them in Missouri.

Video Pop post

2009-12-10T10:19:00.000-08:00

I had the pleasure of opening for Rainbo Video near the beginning of the summer which was ironically towards the end of his tour. Rainbo Video also runs a blog called Video Pop and included me within a recent article, There are downloads available within these linksfrom my upcoming full length due in 2010 and "kites" from my 7" split with GK.

http://www.videopopmusic.com/2009/12/swim-ignorant-fire.html

http://hypem.com/#/list/6273
http://elbo.ws/blog/6214/

BOAR WINTER TOUR!

2009-12-09T15:47:00.000-08:00

Sobou Shuu will be joining us on the first 10 day leg of the tour and the rest of the west coast dates will be Boar and Swim Ignorant Fire.

I hope to see you soon......

VEYOU "Garden"

2009-12-08T15:21:00.000-08:00

Drone-Blo-No-Duo VEYOU has their second release "Garden" available from Pilgrim Talk on 10" lathe.

VEYOU is the collaborative efforts of Stephen Holliger and Nick Hoffman (Scissor Death Records, Pilgrim Talk Records, Katchmare).

There will be the first VEYOU performance on Dec. 27th at The Metal Shaker.

PT2 VEYOU - Garden 10" lathe

A-side in mono, B-side in stereo.

Basementronics by Nick Hoffman and Stephen Holliger.

30 copies

$18 ppd US

Boar Winter Collab/Split

2009-12-03T14:09:00.000-08:00

Chicago's first snow means alot of things...... dont forget to buy your grammy something for X-mas, Hand in that Research Paper you've been ignoring all semester, wipe your ass!! for gods sake wipe that ass.....

This Winter will be the first Swim Ignorant Fire tour.

I met Alex from Boar near the beginning of this summer at Noise Shock II in East Moline, IL at Mixtapes. We both had a very good weekend of fellowship, eating corn dogs, puking in grass, and jumping in the brownest river I've seen called the Mississippi.

Luckily, after cutting my foot open in the river there was no lockjaw or tetanus involved

and at that moment as the first drop of blood dripped through the dock into the river we decided to tour together. Amidst this summer of planning dates and such, We started file-swapping and exchanging song ideas for a possible collaboration to have ready for this tour. We've been writing for this collaboration all summer and it has finally come to fruition. This is probably one of my most aggressive releases so far and crosses alot of genres, its not just a chunk of one thing. There's alot more vocals on this release than I had thought, but makes an interesting blend of metal vocals driving or leading this quirky-quasi-noise-metal? album.

This Boar collaboration will be released through Alex and I's own label: Feeding Cotton Records and Nail in the Coffin Records (NITCO) in East Moline, IL and will be ready for purchase on tour.

1 Drawing Circles with Chalk
2.He’s calling your name
3. If I see another Warhol bag, I’m gonna throw up
4. Cutting down your high horse
5. Blowing smoke up the cowboys ass
6. Run like you’re told
7. Shit rolls down Holy Mountain
8.Save Me
9. Shelter
10.Bruise Festival
11. Ash
12. The classic, “I have a show, but no material” move
13.Celine Dion Handwriting
14. Awkward conversation til we die

Tracks 4,11 recorded as Boar
Tracks 2,14 recorded as Swim Ignorant Fire
(all other tracks recorded as a collaborative effort)

100 copies

Turkey

2009-11-28T13:38:00.000-08:00

During Thanksgiving festivities I was able to catch up with an old friend / bandmate of mine whom I have worked together since I was 16 to collaborate on more material. Our last project was called I Know No Means Yes and we were a drum and bass two-piece, but alongside this we always had electronic tendencies; but only our first show we used hardware to integrate our rock format with our electronic affinities.

This impromptu session was strictly an electronic set and after a bottle of rum and plenty of wine there is plenty of material to choose from for our upcoming 2010 release, and here's the first jam of the night...

11/11

2009-11-11T18:35:00.000-08:00

7" split with GK from Seattle finally pressed and finished

through God Sags His Pants Records!!!

-100 copies

A. Swim Ignorant Fire

1. Kites

B. GK

1. My R1 was Jammed

2. Hockey Fight

I met Spike (GK) somewhere in the east coast, while we were both touring with separate projects roughly 2 years ago. We exchanged music and have kept in touch ever since, This split has been in the works since the summer of 2008 and am so exited to have it finally available. Spike was in a band called Big Black Cloud from Michigan and they have an independent label God Sags His Pants Records, and this 7" will be available through them or ....us (Spike and I).

The split includes an additional CD insert for the rest of the split:

1. Nebraska (Esprit de l'escalier)

2. Kites

3. Onomonapei Soup

4. If He Died, Atleast He Tried

5. Jeans with High Heels

GK's myspace

http://www.myspace.com/spikemyspacedotcom

God Sags His Pants Records

http://www.godsagshispants.com