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.

The wonderful new album that we produced and recorded for Gary Billings, called Grey Skies, has been released and is now available for purchase and download.

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.

It was like we never stopped… the same communication and creativity flowed freely again. It was a wonderful experience.

We had such a great time, who knows what the future might bring?

It looks like Brainclaw is getting ready to dip it’s claws back into the world of Hollywood film music…

Tara and David were approached recently by director Fabian Rush, who wanted to license at least two Brainclaw songs for his upcoming sci-fi horror film, Pantheon Black.

Info on the movie:

Title: Pantheon Black
Genre: Sci-fi thriller
Brief Plot: A group of explorers unwittingly release an ancient god whose only intent is to destroy the world.

Sounds like it is right up Brainclaw’s collective alley!

The songs “When The Dark Rains Come” (featured on the Matrix Revolutions and Matrix Box Set DVD releases) and “Fallen” have been selected to appear in the film, with “Fallen” most likely being used in it’s entirety during the closing credits sequence!

More information as it becomes available…

On a completely non-musical note, Brainclaw are featured in a brand-new tabletop photo book by Philadelphia’s Kyle Cassidy. The book is called Armed America, and is a completely non-partisan look at firearms owners across America.

Kyle traveled the entire length and breadth of the USA to gather stunning photos of American gun owners in their homes. It is a surprising and revealing look and an oft-wrongly maligned culture, full of safe and sane legal gun owners. Each person photographed has a quote in the book, describing why they have chosen to own firearms.

We appear in the book, as well as David’s father, Joseph, who even appears on the back of the dust cover! Kyle has done an excellent job with this project, and the publisher has really done it justice with a flawless presentation. They describe the book in this manner:

“Few things generate as much debate as firearms, and behind this often hotly debated topic are real people. Estimates say roughly half of all Americans are gun owners… but why do so many Americans own a firearm?

Photographer Kyle Cassidy took on the challenge of answering this question without a political agenda. Readers will meet some of the faces behind firearm ownership, and discover honest answers to a single question: “Why do you own a gun?”

Armed America offers a powerful, provocative, and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. with portraits of people from different backgrounds, and living in various locations, with the one common connection of firearm ownership. This riveting and revealing collection of photos of people in their own environments will capture every reader’s attention, whatever their stance on gun control.”

The book is now available for pre-order on amazon.com and will also be available in all major bookstores as well, starting July 7. Congratulations to Kyle on his latest published work!

Brainclaw has completed an interesting collaboration with Japanese Cyberpunk author Kenji Siratori.

Kenji writes a very interesting form of free-verse poetry that could be compared with the work of William S. Burroughs, but with high-tech and dystopian flavors.

He approached us with a free-form poem called Pig, and asked us to compose music for it, and to utilize a recording of him reading the poem in Japanese as the vocal track.

We complied, and came up with a crazy song called Regenerator P.I.G.

We composed a song and then sliced and diced Kenji’s vocals into audio sushi, with heavy processing and tight, small edits. We liked the result, and so did Kenji!

He will be releasing the song and a remix that we are doing on his Hypermodern label in spring of 2007.

You can listen to a snippet of this new release here.

Here is the first really new Brainclaw offering since the Dead Monsters CD was released. Goth cabaret diva Nicki Jaine has provided a stellar vocal performance in a electro industrial reimagining of Gordon Lightfoot’s classic Seventies ballad, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

Also appearing on the song is the wildly-talented Kyle Cassidy, with a blistering guitar execution that blends perfectly with Brainclaw’s signature electronics.

Nicki Jaine doesn’t only sing on this new track, she also played a rare instrument, the 28 inch Charlie Blacklock Special custom-made musical saw, which is featured in the choruses of the song.

You can hear an .mp3 of this new song right HERE, and you can download the full-quality 44/16 .aiff version HERE. Feel free to download and share to your heart’s content!

Many thanks to Nicki and Kyle for this fantastic collaborative effort.

Richard Heene, California producer, director and scientist, approached us about using multiple Brainclaw songs in his next episode of The Science Detective, a television science exploration series geared toward young adults.

He has already selected several songs from both albums for the episode, called “The Tornado Seeking Rocket” including his favorite, the ever-popular When The Dark Rains Come, which has already made appearances on The Matrix and Spiderman DVD releases.

It deals with research using rockets to detect and predict relationships between electromagnetic fields and hurricane physics, with the ultimate goal of being able to give better early warning in the event of catastrophic storms.

“Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2005 – Storm-chasers Richard Heene and Clint Perkins of the Science Detective Research Group flew directly into Hurricane Wilma as it bore down on the Florida coast after battering resorts on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Heene and Perkins, armed with still and video cameras and a geomagnetometer, were invited to join the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’ Tampa, Fla.,-based Hurricane Hunters on two missions.

Along with the NOAA crew, the storm-chasers strapped into five-point seatbelt harnesses and embarked upon a dramatic, lightning-ridden ride into Hurricane Wilma to photograph and measure the earth’s magnetic field around the storm.”

More info on Brainclaw’s participation in the show as we get it…

Hello, Friends of Brainclaw!

If you don’t want to read the whole story, no problem. Here’s the important part: Fox the kitten is thriving! He’s playing, eating and using his box like a big boy. He’s absolutely a new kitten!

Tara found this little guy in a shopping center parking lot last Wednesday. We took him to the vet, who said he’d pull through with a little TLC. We thought that was the end of the story, and that we had 4 cats now…

The kitten took a MAJOR downturn Friday morning. We found him lying on his side, unresponsive, not breathing and cold. Tara thought he was dead. Needless to say, I was pretty much hysterical. I lifted him up to give him a kiss goodbye, and 9miracle of miracles) he suddenly sighed and coughed!

We rushed him to our 24 hour emergency animal hospital where they intubated him, put him on an IV drip and kept him in an incubator. They weren’t hopeful. He was 6 weeks old, 1 pound. He was so far gone with malnutrition and dehydration and ten other problems that even though he looked OK Wednesday and Thursday, he was actually dying.

I was pretty much miserable all day Friday, waiting for the inevitable death call from the hospital.

THEN…

…we got a call from the hospital Friday night, saying the kitty was actually breathing on his own, and moving around! They still weren’t very optimistic, but they were working on him 24 hours a day. We get another call on Saturday, saying he was walking around, beginning to eat, and meowing! They actually couldn’t believe it!

We visited him Saturday afternoon, and he looked so much better! They called us Sunday morning and said “Come take him home!” We couldn’t believe it.

We hand-fed him Sunday and all day and night Monday. He sleeps on a heating pad. We’re administering two different antibiotics and a wormer. The little tough guy had a terrible case of roundworms, fleas, ear mites, dehydration, malnutrition and an upper respiratory condition. He’s recovering from ALL of them, with flying colors!

When I left him this morning with Tara, he was lying on his back, eyes bright. I went to rub his belly, and he grabbed my hand and started nibbling and attacking me, playfully, of course! He is making a stellar recovery.

After all of this, we’ve decided to keep him in the family. He needs to live in the Studio for two months until we can test him for the more grievous feline diseases, which it is doubtful he has, then he can join our other cats. Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes! We know they helped him survive.

Brainclaw has just completed a cool new remix of Alfa Matrix recording artist Neikka RPM’s song “I Ride The Flames.”

Neikka RPM makes a wonderful variety of heavy beat industrial music with freaky, distorted female vocals. Dominique approached Brainclaw’s label BLC Productions about doing a remix for Neikka RPM a few weeks ago. Naturally, we were thrilled at the chance to put that special Brainclaw rinse on an already excellent song.

The song heads off in a few days to the mastering engineer along with several other remixes that will be appearing on a future Neikka RPM release.

We will post more info on this release as it becomes available.

From the Neikka RPM website:

“The music of Neikka RPM is a dark-pulse of fury resonating from within the underground catacombs of New York. Their sound, a unique mixture of ultra-aggressive soundscapes and Dominique’s bewitching vocals, has been described by one reviewer as “a beautiful wave of destruction that stays with you long after the CD ends.” Neikka RPM is the creator of a pounding club-floor sonic assault that sounds much like a fusion between the raw-energy of Front 242 (Re:Boot), the sexy shimmer of Starseeds and the hard-electronica attitude of Prodigy (Fat of the Land)…one can only succumb to the frenzy beneath the crush of each club-destroying track.”

Japanese author Kenji Siratori approached Brainclaw this week to propose a collaboration. He is a well-known author who works in a very stange technique of seemingly random words and phrases, all steeped in a very cyberpunk techno-horror style.

His closest ancestors would be authors like William S. Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. The material is raw, futuristic and very dark. It seems to be a perfect match for some custom-crafted Brainclaw music.

Kenji describes his own work… “I believe that the novel becomes a cultural trigger-but this requires the digital narrative of nerve cells that had the creature intensity-simultaneously we must perceive the instant when the novel is networking as a part of the human body emulator.”

Work begins next week on this interesting collaborative effort. No one is quite sure how the song will be released, but it will most likely be available for free download from the MUSIC page on this website. More news as it becomes available…