The party was killer. So much good food + drink, amazing music and community. Check out Photos and Video from the party:

http://www.vimeo.com/7705527

.thank you to grant gardiner for the photographs and videos.

A little while back, Elia of One Night Music and Pirate Cat Radio came over to our house and recorded a lovely video of us playing Month of Sundays in our living room. In celebration and cahoots here it is (Autumnal Fire makes a cameo):

Middle Maki from San Francisco performs for One Night Music from One Night Music on Vimeo.

You can download it (you choose your price) under music. We love these songs and we think you will too. heart.mm

Our debut ep, Port Adieu, is coming out November 1st! It will be available here on the website and in lovely silkscreened hardcopy at our ep release; you name your price.

Port Adieu ep release party

.with.

Honeycomb

Kathryn Anne Davis

& friends

Sunday, November 15th at CELLspace (18th St+ Bryant St)

food+doors at 6p; music at 7p.

21+; free

The food + beer will be free and put up by my older brother Morgan and his two cook friends, Johannes + Nuch. It’s going to be delicious so you should plan on being there by 6p to get food.

pretty exciting stuff, eh? heart.m²

I decided to silkscreen the covers for Port Adieu.

First step: learning how to silkscreen (thank yous to friends and books).

Second step: getting all the materials (thank yous to art supplies stores with lengthy hours and spencer’s pickup truck).

Last step: silkscreening . . . Folks, it was rad.

One Saturday morning, I began setting up. I taped up the windows in our hall closet, emptied it out, and created my laboratory:

Frequently Morgan (my older brother) wakes up and I am halfway through some project dressed in my pajamas and about five sweaters (it’s cold in my house in the morning) and muttering to myself. I can only imagine what he thought when he saw the contents of the closet in the hall and and me duct taping cardboard over the windows. I got everything together and by the evening I was ‘burning’ screens:

This is the screen after it’s burned and the photo emulsion is washed off (in my bathtub):

The next morning I made coffee and surveyed the landscape. Morgan made me breakfast. I put together a worktable (the kitchen table):

The most brilliant innovation was my duct tape hinge system. It kept the screen stable so I could be a onemanfactoryline. I duct taped the screen to a hinge and the hinge to the table:

brilliant. . .

Screen one turned out well; I did a small victory dance.

Onward, through screens two through five. Here an image of one of the screens during the inking process:

They turned out beautifully – you can see just how beautifully at our release party on Sunday, November 15th at Cellspace (18th + Bryant in the Mission), doors+food at 6p. The music is available here on the website on November 1st.

.elizabeth.

We recorded our debut ep, Port Adieu, at Hyde Street Studios in SF with some awesome people. Nigel Pavao was our recording engineer (with the help of intern Kent) and Mike Wells mastered the ep. It was like this:

It was also like this