Recorded in a single three hour session, Blood & Light is the result of long-simmering mutual admiration and a strange turn of events. The recording session that produced this album wasn't even supposed to have taken place. However after an aborted performance and newfound time on their hands Blood & Light became. With no overdubs or effects the record tells stories of subway trains, angels, gnomes, drones, miracles, hopes, glassy voices and fears.

With beautifully disturbing artwork by Tom Steck Blood & Light is also an experiment in commerce. The album is a free Creative Commons download while the T-shirt is available for $15 with full colour album art on an American Apparel Tee.

Chris Schlarb- electric guitar, electronics, radio
Tom Steck- drums

"Seraphic Light" by John Coltrane

Produced and engineered by Chris Schlarb
Recorded at Lil' Rock studios, Long Beach, Ca. April 10th 2004
Artwork by Tom Steck


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

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