Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish - The Esker EP

Mark Rushton Podcast #32 - Esker EP
Released October 26, 2008
24 minutes
192kb-encoded MP3
34MB

Jon Harnish and I release the free "Esker" EP, featuring three ambient tracks ("Esker", "Drumlin", and "Weathering") recorded at Public Space One in Iowa City on Sunday, October 19, 2008.

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Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish - Ornate Culmination album cover

Here's the cover for the new Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish album, Ornate Culmination:



Track listing is:

1. The Church Of Calm (7:11)
2. Ornate Culmination (9:10)
3. Along Third Street (8:48)
4. Buzz And Howl (4:41)
5. Buzz And Howl (part two) (1:14)
6. Vitame Vas U Nas (7:11)
7. Tactile Music (3:57)
   

Recorded at Weather Excuse Studio in the New Bohemia part of Cedar Rapids during March 2008. Edited at The Bunker in Iowa City.

Mark Rushton - xiosynth, buddha machine, acid pro, ableton live, zoom h2
Jon Harnish - bass guitar, effects box, feedback, nuendo, groove agent

These are the last recordings made by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish at Jon's Weather Excuse Studio. In June of 2008, Weather Excuse destroyed by the worst flooding ever along the Cedar River in Iowa, as was the New Bohemian arts district, the nearby Czech Village area, almost all of downtown Cedar Rapids, as well as the Time Check neighborhood. Jon's house had 10 feet of water inside it. While Jon had a small amount of time to evacuate things like his computers and his bass guitar, many things were left behind because it was believed the water would only be a few feet deep. Everything left behind was ruined. The Matyk Building, located near Jon's house and where we have recorded many times since 2005, was also significantly damaged.

Here's the projected timeline on the rollout:

Late August - Lightscribe CD via CDBaby (worldwide)
Late August - DRM-free MP3 files via CDBaby (worldwide)
Early September - AmazonMP3 (US only)
Mid-September - iTunes (worldwide)
Late September or October - other worldwide digital distributors and subscription services

Jon and I have a lot more music to be released in the coming months. Probably another four or five album's worth.

Pulse Detector, a new free MP3 by Mark Rushton

Mark Rushton - Pulse Detector
Originally sourced from a Buddha Machine
(5:11), 128kb-encoded MP3, 5MB

The loop is recorded from my Buddha Machine into a Zoom H2 as a 16-bit 44.1kHz WAV file, which was then transferred to my laptop and messed around with using audio software.

Pulse Detector has a lovely and hypnotic ambient dub nature to it.

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Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish IS DELAYED

The "Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish" album is delayed due to a manufacturing problem. All the CDs had to be returned. The recording used for digital distribution was also defective, and a new copy of the master has been sent along for "re-ripping".

The MP3 version of the album will be available soon (likely the second week of February), followed by digital distribution to all the major companies (iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, etc).

About Mark Rushton:

Mark Rushton creates music and sounds with his laptop, synths, and field recordings. His albums include 2004's The Driver's Companion, 2005's Hum And Drift, 2007's Regeneration X, and 2008's Flow. An early podcaster, Rushton's unusual music has thousands of fans world-wide, and he's sold albums in such places as Japan, Australia, throughout Europe, as well as the United States. This is his first album with Jon Harnish.

About Jon Harnish:

Born in Iowa, Jon Harnish grew up playing trumpet and traveled with the Emerald Knights drum corps for 5 years where he developed a jazz sensibility and skill. As a kid he loved Doo Wop and was particularly drawn to the bass vocal parts. At age 19 he took his inspiration from players like Jaco Pastorius, Bootsy, Larry Graham, Phil Lesh, and McCartney and decided that bass was his instrument and that music would be and important part of his life. He was then fortunate enough to be taken under the wing of Nik Gerboth, The Daughtery brothers, and most significantly Craig Erickson. After doing originals with Erickson from 1983 to 1985 he made the move to Los Angeles where he became immersed in the end of the punk movement. By the late eighties he was playing with the likes of Astrid Young (Neil Young's sister), Keith Levene (formerly of The Clash) and D.H. Peligro from The Dead Kennedys. He played on 3 independent releases with the Apache Dancers (I.R.S.), Keith Levene (Violent Opposition E.P. 1987), and Peligro (Sheik Records). Playing with several other local artists he made it deep into the L.A. undeground scene. In 1989 he began work with Hits magazine a major music industry chart and promotion mag as a features editor and retail/radio promotion person. Starting in 1994 he worked as assistant to Ringo Starr on his estate in Beverly Hills for 2 years. In 1998 he returned to his homeland and family. After a break from music he started working with Big Daddy Lee Kohl and currently creates Ambient music with Mark Rushton

Flow (CDs and MP3 downloads) now available at CDBaby

Mark Rushton's "Flow" album is now available for purchase via CDBaby in both CD and MP3 (200kb VBR MP3) formats.

(CDs and MP3 downloads)

Coming to digital download services such as iTunes, Amazon.com, eMusic, Rhapsody, and others in February 2008.

Stream the first 2 minutes of each song here in high-quality audio.

Or stream lower-quality samples by clicking song titles below:

1. Pajarito (5:20)
2. Ornaments (3:02)
3. Holy Ghosts (3:52)
4. Flow (8:40)
5. Chuck Bird (6:16)
6. Normal (2:45)
7. That Was A Different Life (15:21)

Mark Rushton Podcast #22 - October 2007 - Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish

Mark Rushton Podcast #22 - October 2007 - Three new improvised ambient pieces by Mark Rushton and Jon Harnish
Released October 15, 2007
20 minutes and 30 seconds
160kb-encoded MP3
24MB

Jon Harnish and I recorded these three improvised ambient/electronica pieces on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at his Weather Excuse studio in the New Bohemia section of Cedar Rapids. Other recordings from this session will likely come out in podcasts in the future.

On these tracks, Jon is on bass guitar and effects box. I'm either on my Xiosynth using it as a stand-alone synth or as a keyboard controller for Ableton Live running on my laptop. I'm also playing Jon's controller running Atmosphere. Everything was recorded on my new Zoom H2.

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Mark Rushton - Flow CD

Mark Rushton's Flow CD will be released in a few weeks.

It's an extremely ambient album. Most of the arrangements are layered improvisations.

Here's the cover:



Track listing is:

1. Pajarito (5:21)
   
2. Ornaments (3:02)
   
3. Holy Ghosts (3:53)
   
4. Flow (8:40)
   
5. Chuck Bird (6:16)
   
6. Normal (2:46)
   
7. That Was A Different Life (15:19)

Recorded and assembled at East Highlands Studio, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, January to February 2007. Project completed at The Bunker, Iowa City, September 2007.

The CD will feature a 4-page color booklet with photography by Mark Rushton.

Digital download sales of the album should be available within a couple of months.

New Free MP3 - Buddhametrics (live v2)

New free MP3.

It's called Buddhametrics (live v2).

Mellow live remix of my track Psychometrics, but with many of the rock loops taken out and replaced with the Buddha Machine. Recorded at the Ambient Matyk Cafe in March 2006.

Mark Rushton Podcast #21

New podcast (#21 - June 2007) is available. 2 new ambient/meditative tracks. 11 minutes and 30 seconds.

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Mark Rushton Podcast #20

Mark Rushton Podcast #20 is available.

It features sections of every track off my latest album, Regeneration X.

Mark Rushton's Regeneration X now available

Regeneration X, an album of instrumental pop/electronica and ambient, is available for purchase in CD format and is available for purchase as a digital download album or as single tracks at .