Tchrite - Phaidon Video

Video for Tchrite - Phaidon from the upcoming 'Mind Transplant' LP.
Filmed and edited by Jonathan Jindra

Oblivion

A new Tchrite track is contained within this short film from Simon Pena, who is the other half of the band with me.

Oblivion from Simon Pena on Vimeo.

SOW - Dog

SOW - Crybaby (Alternate Edit)

From the new album 'Dog' on I, Absentee. Available at http://www.i-absentee.com/sow/ Additional visuals by Jonathan Jindra.

Collaboration With Radames Ortiz

I have been working with Houston area poet Radames Ortiz on a collaboration scoring his poems. We plan on releasing a cd this summer of our work together. Here is a recent live performance of a piece we played at Rudolph Projects ArtScan Gallery in November 2009. The video projection was also shot and edited by me.

MIdmir - Step Into A Dream

"Step Into A Dream is the debut album from Midmir, collaboratively written and produced by Jonathan Jindra (Trills) and Frank Dambra (Arctier, Track53). The respected talents of both artists fuse together to produce a spark flurrying with a sparse palette of colour-changing, genre-morphing tracks.

Newport Riverbed eases us in with bendy synths stretching around deliciously laidback beats and melodies which eventually navigate into wavering atmospheric ambience. Erazi shines through elements of jazz whilst Step22 and Acidto dissolve into wide-open halls soaked in distant house chords and dripping with acid. The journey peaks with Cathode Blue and I Remember Her Handwriting, both epic in scale and build-up, ultimately climaxing in a spirit-lifting experience, leaving an urge to revisit and peel back the inner depths underlying this entire piece.

The great variety of shades and styles provided by each unmistakable artist meld together harmoniously. A sublime listen!"

http://www.retronym.co.uk/rtn011/

Tchrite Review

I stumbled upon this today. It's a review of my experimental side project with Simon Pena we call Tchrite:

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/08/friday_night_noise_tchrites_un.php

"Houston duo Tchrite - don't ask FNN how to pronounce that - are an experimentalist train wreck. They sew samples (No Doubt's "Don't Speak," the sorta public-access sound scraps that The Books go gaga over) into woozy patches of static tone. They puree and smush and smash samples together. They chop breakbeats into bits. They go in for disorienting-yet-forgettable laptop electronic wave modulations that aren't quite "techno" but aren't totally IDM, either - even if a lot of their unsexy song titles would give Autechre wood. All of which to say is that listening to the Tchrite albums FNN could find online (for free!) - Inner Sanctum Mysteries and Echoe Mae - is never, ever boring. FNN nominates "Casahdt" as a standout for several reasons: it's not excessively schizo, it's not long and it's noiser than every other Tchrite out there. It's 29 seconds of pulse-pounding, take-no-shit ecstasy: an out-of-control algorithm beating the tar outta smooth, air-traffic controller chatter with manic, mescaline-drenched drums, wipe-swipe synth effects, and the unmistakable tonal whine of a 747 rising slowly into the sky."

Video Poem - Drone

Here is my first in a series of short video poems I am working on containing short pieces of unreleased Trills tunes. This one is called Drone containing a portion of the track Kirlian Drone from my upcoming ambient release Liquid Sunshine: