Jason Kaneshiro Music

Starting Again

webomati — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:23:55 +0000

It’s taken me longer than it should to feel “ready” to record again. I’m so out of practice musically, but I think I’m finally over the hump. I have a lot of decent ideas stored up from the past few months. I think I now just have to solidify them and come up with a schedule, and stick to it.

I’m still not sure if the pre-planning is the right approach. I have differing feelings about doing a lazy, stripped down set of recordings like Sam Phillips or go for something more polished but “electric”. I think I’m going for that latter.

I’m also tempted to buy a cheap acoustic guitar to help out. My Martin is still having issues with its top string.

Cinematica Website Up

webomati — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:25:27 +0000

Got the Cinematica album website more or less up - basically ten music videos from way back when, tossed into a Flash filmstrip site. It only took me about ten years to get all this stuff online.

Wrote A Few Songs

webomati — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 03:44:59 +0000

Right now I have about five songs I consider decent. Admittedly, some are leftovers from earlier, aborted projects from the past few years.

Other than that I’m starting to set up my work area so I can record some stuff without too much difficulty. At this point I’ll just lay down a rhythm guitar track so I can build some drums around it.

Meanwhile my ears are distracted by other thoughts, such as the Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls soundtrack, the new Crowded House, and whatever Suzanne Vega is up to these days.

Getting Started

webomati — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:34:44 +0000

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been mulling over some ideas for the next batch of songs, and think I’ve settled on something easy to accomplish but also rather fun. I’ve been listening to Sam Phillips’ last two albums (A Boot And A Shoe and Fan Dance) which are very stripped down acoustic demos. But likewise, I’m considering returning to a standard rock band approach of guitar, bass, and drums but sort of retro like Big Star or Television.

So I’m thinking about doing both, but by recording the same five songs, each getting the opposing treatment. I might have the melodies be the same but with completely different verse lyrics.

Anyhow, it’s just an idea I’m mulling over.

Welcome To This Blog

webomati — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:36:11 +0000

Hey. So my name is Jason and I’ve been recording music I’ve written… ever since highschool. As of this writing, that was an awfully long time ago.

Anyhow, I have self-produced seven groups of music over the years - I guess the oldsters call them albums. I have a life goal to get up to nine. Therefore, I’m hoping to record one last group of ten songs, do a wimpy “greatest hits” thing… and then call it quits.

But I figure I should get some Internet-mileage out of my old material and my last musical project while it lasts - hence this site.

Through this musical blog I’ll be revisiting my favorite old tracks and also documenting new ones as they’re created. Hopefully it will be entertaining.

To start, please browse through the albums on this site.

Thanks for visiting!