Gary and David spent Sunday creating a darker cover of a Pink Floyd song that was already pretty dark, “Comfortably Numb.”

You can check it out HERE.

Enjoy.

“Comfortably Numb” was featured on the platinum-selling Pink Floyd album, The Wall, released in 1979.

David will be performing this song and several others live with Gary at his next show, so stay tunes for show dates.

Be sure to check Gary’s MySpace page for all kinds of new songs and concert dates.

Brainclaw spent Sunday with Gary Billings, recording a fantastic new song called “So I Surrender.”

It’s a powerful vocal and acoustic guitar song, and really showcases Gary’s voice at the top of its game.

He will most likely have it posted on his MySpace page very soon.

As always, it was a pleasure working again with such a consummate and passionate professional. Remember that Gary’s solo album called Grey Skies,is now available:

Track Listing:
1. At All
2. Stay
3. Reaping the Wreckage of My Past
4. Castles in the Sand
5.Your Life of Uncertainty
6. Hannah’s Lullaby

You can buy CDs or digital downloads from CDBaby HERE. You can also buy the CD from Isotank.com.

For more info, see Gary’s MySpace page.

The album is a departure from Gary’s work in Carfax Abbey, and his voice and guitar playing are at their peak.

This is a pure, unadulterated look into Gary’s complex soul, with no frosting or artifice. Please give it a listen, it will be well worth your time.

Tara and I had a fantastic time reuniting with Gary again in our own Studio Auroviral, where much of the Carfax Abbey back catalogue was written and recorded.

Brainclaw is now accessible through everyone’s favorite social networking utility, Facebook!

Feel free to head over there and become a Brainclaw fan.

There will be new previews of upcoming releases, rare photos and other content sure to thrill and amaze.

OH. And whatever you do, don’t EVER let professional musicians buy Guitar Hero III.

Now they will NEVER GET THE DAMN ALBUM FINISHED!

Sunday, Feb 15, 2009

Showtime:
1:30 PM

Where:
Crossroads Coffeehouse

6156 Ridge Avenue
Philadelphia
19128

Free All Ages Show!

Gary Billings and David Giuffre are two of the founding members of Philadelphia’s own CARFAX ABBEY.

They haven’t shared a stage in over eight years, and will be performing songs from Gary’s new album Grey Skies.

David will be playing synthesizer, backing up Gary and his acoustic guitar.

Gary’s new album, Grey Skies is available at the show.

There will be other guest performers at the show as well

Come and see a mellow and exciting stage reunion!

Just an interim update on the new Brainclaw album’s progress…

John Ruszin has been doing an insane job of adding guitar tracks to the completed songs on the new Brainclaw release. We’re nearing completion, and the tracks are sounding amazing.

The great thing about John is that he’s a musician’s guitar player. He can play waht needs to be played, and that is especially crucial on this recording. This is going to be a hard electro-industrial release, and his guitar fits the songs perfectly.

John knows exactly how to play, what to play and has a palette of sounds that integrate perfectly with Brainclaw’s electronics.

So please enjoy this surprise sample from the new album, the song “Matte Black Smile.”

Click HERE for a high resolution .mp3 file of the new song.

We will be gearing up for summer shows with John on board to tour the new release.

Thanks to all of you for your support and patience through the album composition process!

We here at the Brainclaw Enclave are terribly excited to announce an intense new collaboration with an old friend and bandmate:

John Ruszin, guitar virtuoso and head of the Collinwood 13 electro industrial project, has come on board, lending his precise and powerful axe-playing to the new Brainclaw CD, DECEPTOR.

As many Brainclaw fans know, David and John met when Philadelphia industrial rock act Carfax Abbey was created 12 years ago, where they composed a large portion of the music for Carfax’s early and middle years.

The new Brainclaw songs were already moving in a very hard direction, and the addition of John’s guitar tracks on many of the new songs will upgrade the recording with a serious amount of kick-ass.

John has also expressed interest in, and will be joining Brainclaw on tour this summer in support of the new album’s release.

We welcome John’s addition to the team, and look forward to deploying his particular brand of industrial mayhem in our future stage show!

Check out John’s solo work at his Collinwood 13 website.

Also stay tuned for super secret snippets of the nearly finished songs from the upcoming Brainclaw release, on LiveJournal, Facebook, MySpace and right here at the official Brainclaw Website.

Just for fun, Davidclaw has opened a Twitter.com account.

It’s a fun little social networking utility that lets users give brief and instant updates to their friends and fans, referred to as “followers.” Your posts are restricted to 140 characters per post, an interesting parameter to work within!

Davidclaw is Brainclaw_David on Twitter, so feel free to head over there and “follow” what’s going on in the Brainclaw world.

We will be releasing little tidbits of info on many Brainclaw and non-Brainclaw projects as time allows.

There will be many different audio and video projects coming to fruition in the new year, so hop on Twitter and be the first to find out, Clawlings!

See you there!

Davidclaw on Twitter