a former melbournite, now osakian commarade of mine, Kid Transistor, has just released an EP of collaborations called “+ others”.  the first jam on said EP features me singing stuff and shredding some sick axe.  stream and/or download why don’t you? it’s free because the internet says so.  http://www.kidtransistor.com/

With the Moon Alongside Racing Us Home (WtMARUH) is the album of the week (AOW) this week on FBi (FBi).  It’s all pretty amazing…  especially since WtMARUH is such a totally radio unfriendly title… sorry presenters… but thank you!!

So if you’re in Sydney you should listen to FBi all week.  And if your elsewhere you should still listen to FBi all week.

If you’re in Melbourne then this Thursday you should come down to The Builders Arms where I’ll be playing with The Motifs and Tailor Made For A Small Room who are both great.  I’ll have my party hat on and  will blast some new tunes.

And if you haven’t already, you should go download the album right now *** It’s free*** or if you’re really into it and want to put it on your bookshelf you can buy a really nice handmade one.  Read all about it in the posts below.

My new album “With the Moon alongside Racing Us Home” launched today.  It’s available as a free download and also as CD in lovingly handmade cardboard sleeves made just for you.  I wrote and recorded the album throughout 2009 in my bedroom studio dubbed The Pentagon, It has reoccuring themes of robots, dragons, anarchism and the night sky and a little three note refrain scattered throughout.

You can download or buy the album here.

To celebrate the albums release I’ve also sent my new website live.  mmmmm… orange.

What do think of the album and the site?  let me know why don’t you.

big things happening in zeal land. my new album is hitting the net july 4th! that’s only five more sleeps. the juicy details are as follows: it has eleven tracks, many of them mention robots, several mention dragons and the stars. the whole thing has a hearty serve of anti-authoritarianism. it’s a bit electronic, a bit folky, a bit poppy, a bit ukulele. i was listening to a lot of anticon when i wrote it so it’s got some wordiness in there too. it’s going to be a free download or you can buy the amazing handmade package you see above (and below). it’s all very exciting.

and if that wasn’t enough i’m puting togethert a new zeal website. if you see zealousy.com in your address bar you’re already looking at my shiny new site. there might some broken links in the archives as i shuffle things around but i’m on it. promise. and i have a show coming up too… i leave you in suspense for now. back to web making.

This’ll only work in ableton but there might be ways to do this using comprable vst plugins etc.

The new Zeal set is coming together and the first of many Melbourne gigs is lined up for April.  Oh yeah, and did i mention I have a new album ready for release?  next few posts should be bigguns…

zeal has relocated to melbourne!  i’m building my new live set so all you melbournites – keep an eye out for shows in the near future.  right now i’m prepping the packaging for my new album “with the moon alongside racing us home”.

physical copies of the album will ship in awesome handmade sleeves with fun paper parts and bonus warm fuzzy feelings.  i might find a way to sneak fun stuff into the digital copies too.  lots on the horizon – vj shows, new video clip, maybe a even a tour and a new ep.  back to it!

My Xbox Guitar Hero to MIDI application AXIS is available now!  The videos below explain all:

Mac users:

• Get AXIS 1.0 HERE.

• You’ll also need the Tattiebogle Xbox drivers from here.

• If you get the dreaded blinking green light there’s now a solution!  Check here.

Windows users:

• Get AXIS 1.0 HERE.

• You’ll also need LoopBe from here.

• Quicktime’s required for the Heads Up Display.  I’d recommend Quicktime Alternative.

• If the Xbox drivers don’t install automatically try here.

AXIS was built in Max/MSP.  If you’d like to adapt it for a different guitar or anything just get in touch and I’ll send you the source.

so it took almost exactly a year to write and record and now my next album “with the moon alongside racing us home” is mixed!  complete! done!  finito! pung! bahoogled!  i made a lot of those words up, feel free to use them (CC non-profit, attribution, share-alike).

now all this mixing’s done i’m focusing on my live show and getting axis out into the world.  i’m also enjoying playing with max for live as an audio visual environment.  getting sensors to the party is the next step i think… like some sort of reactive audio-visual “thingy”.

artwork for the album has to be done too… might start on that now.

bob out.

As promised/hinted at the first Zeal EP “This is how I hear your voice” is now up on . Click that button to make sure I’m not lying.  I don’t like iTunes so I’m going to change the subject… right now, I’m busy playing with max for live and developing my new live show.  Did someone say midi controlled video and animation?.. hooray for comprehensive video control from with in ableton!  shall share shortly.

as promised, a brand spanking new track from my upcoming album.  download and share to your hearts content.

Zeal – Wasps

Wasps was sampled and sequenced on a PS2 using this software and some of the lyrics were borrowed from a Benny Hinn song.

It’s been picked up by New Weird Australia vol. 3, a way cool compilation of interesting Australian music.  CHECK IT!

and Rose Quartz picked it up almost instantly and said nice things like “this new Zeal track is some cool fucking shit.” READ!