Archive for ‘Christian Erickson’

Christian Erickson

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Christian Erickson - “Long Way Up, Longer Way Down”

I’ve been in 3 bands in the last couple decades. The first, Judgement of Paris, was usually considered an “electronic” band even though we used a lot of acoustic/folk instruments like hammered dulcimer. The second was called Passage, a moody acoustic, goth-folk group that again used hammered dulcimer as the lead instrument. Then came Astronaut Wife, an electronic pop “girl group.”

I think the best way to describe these 3 songs is as a kind of mashup of the styles of all 3 of those bands. I recognize that there are probably only 10 people who have ever heard all my old stuff, so I’ve posted more release notes and some links over on my own blog.

Hopefully, these stand on their own and are interesting even without any other context.

Download: Free

Unzip the files and drag the 3Side into iTunes or your favorite music app.

320kbps MP3

256kbps AAC

Christian Erickson

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Christian Erickson - “Advance Promotional Cassette”

“Advance Promotional Cassette” is a 3Side of recordings I’ve made at home recently. I had quite a bit of help from Ed Ackerson, my wife and Astronaut Wife bandmate Janey Winterbauer, and others. Some notes on the songs themselves:

Song #1: A Little Sun

Wrote this a long time ago and never recorded it. Jon Hunt help me arrange the chorus on this way back when. Most of it was recorded and mixed by me on my laptop at home, but the awesome drum track was played by Peter Anderson and engineered and edited by Ed Ackerson. Janey sings on it of course.

Song #2: Paper Airplane

Another one I’ve been meaning to record forever. Again, a home recording for the most part, except Janey’s vocals which Ed recorded and edited at Flowers when we had planned on her singing it.

Song #3: Stitching Time

This is a cover of a song by The Legendary Pink Dots – one of my all time favorite bands. I banged this out in a couple hours one afternoon. I really, really dig this song, hopefully it shows on the track.

Download: Free