Hi and welcome to J.Lee Arts and Music. Brand New on the Music page are two new Starry Skemes band praxis vids of recently added tunes to our set. Also there’s a vid I found on YT of the Rabbles live at the Clarion Alley Block Party from I dunno 2014 or so doing one of my favorite songs Greyscale Scape Leave me a comment if you like. I’d love to hear from YOU. Thanks for checking out the site!
Listen Here: Ironically coming to your phone almost 30 years after it was recorded, Analog Girl by Static Faction will be released on all the streaming services May 30th. What can I say, I guess a lot of people from back in the day really like this album. I like it too. I almost forgot about it and was not sure it really existed or if it was a dream or if I’m I dreaming right now. Check out this timeless classic of an album by one of SF’s mythological unicorn bands of the mid to late 1990’s Starcleaner universe. Welcome back old friends, welcome new fellow travelers. Thanks to John Driver for all the label work that went into this process.
Upcoming Show: TRONA/Warm Spell at the Make out Room 6/15
Looking forward to playing with our good friends TRONA at the Make Out Room mid-June. Great night on planet earth for some stoney rock and sonic experimentation. Thanks to Greg Piper for sending us this vid flyer!
Just got this baby back from the shop and immediately wrote a new verb soaked shoegaze waterbed of a riff. I got it at Steve’s Music World in Santa Cruz back in the mid 90’s for $150 (without the original cabinet). This new cab has been outfitted with a pair of 8″ Celestions. This amp has seen a lot of action over the years live with Static Faction and was the sole amp used on the first Rabbles LP back in 2004 as well as the Farfisa/Leslie speaker amp. It may make it out to a Starry Skemes gig soon. Kind of a little delicate and has been in the shop many times over the years and behind the panel my repair guys tell me grave stories of a real rats nest of wires, tubes and electronic components.
Work in Progress
Did a little more work on this painting which I am now calling Fire Water (formerly Far Out Mt, Magic Mountain Lake). I was doing this marbling technique on the lower right with ultramarine blue, raw umber, bone black and zinc white. It reminded me of the Chinese and Japanese landscape/riverscape/seascape flowing water effect. The main point of this piece is the red/blue eye-op color/energy field. I was painting in the storage space the other day and a bee landed on the canvas and eventually sat on top and hung out with me for about 15 minutes or so. She was doing that insect thing preening herself, rubbing her eyes. I was really pleased with what I considered a multi-species hang-out and was quite honored to be allowed to be in the bee’s presence. This painting is either getting close to done or I will get reactionary and do someting more radical to it, changing the entire vibe.
Starry Skemes live at Adobe 4/12/25
Thanks to all who came out to the Adobe to share and participate in this musical experience. Marina played a great set dueted with Kevin Van Yserloo on violin. Starry Skemes had a great heartfelt trance inducing and fun set. It was a pleasure. Thanks to Tom Scharff for stagehanding and recording and Jonnie Fellmen for hosting!
The 8 Clock
I was cleaning out my storage space/studio putting all the bits of wire, screen, circles, chickenwire, lamp shade parts an a slew of other junk into a bin and thought to myself “this is the collection of a madman.” I mean, it makes sense to me but it just looks like madness. Of course there is a method to the madness and that method is called chaos where ideas will likely jump out of the creative ether. These objects pictured here were at the top of the bin and kinda looked cool, so I pulled them out and made this piece. It’s called the 8 Clock, as if it’s always 8:00, but the trick is turn 8 sideways and you have infinity!
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