Pheroze

Driftwood is Pheroze’s debut solo album.

Credits:

Voice, Guitar, Bass, Esraj, Gopichand, Dhol, Khartal, Chimta, Ghungharu, Khanjari, and Manjira performances on all tracks by Pheroze Karai

Drum performances on all tracks and Maracas and Tambourine on ‘Never Lie to The Pavement’ by Dante Renzi

Produced and Recorded by Pheroze Karai

Mixed and Recording consultancy by Nick Cohen at Studio 203 in Miami Beach, FL

Drums Tracked by Nick Cohen at The Shack in Yonkers, NY

Mastered by Tom Chianti of Alanatomic Productions at The Cube Studio, NY

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Doors at 7:30 – Swear On Your Life goes on at 11:30

Ace of Club is at 8 Great Jones St. NYC

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Also playing:

Vero

Hooray for Goodbye

Karyn Kuhl

GSX

Ray West CD release party! Also featuring Eve to Adam, The Only & more!

Friends-

For this week only I have a BRAND NEW SONG available for download. From my demo recording session in the summer of ‘09, my song Kingdoms is available for download at http://www.reverbnation.com/playlist7 – Click on Current Contenders and you’ll find my song. Go now, right now, and download it! Please pass this on to your friends, tweet it, post it, write it with permanent marker on your breasts, whatever ya gotta do  – but SPREAD THE WORD!

Again, this is available for this week only courtesy of Reverb Nation and Windows 7. So download away!

Kingdoms is a rocking tune – consider it my ode to vintage rock – this is the demo version, so think of it as a teaser for the final version. The esteemed Mr. Joe Renaud is on Drums and the fragrant Mr. Joe Pepitone is on bass. The flavorful Mr. Clay Holley tracked and mixed this one in a super short amount of time.

Again, please pass this along to whoever you know. I will likely be very annoying about downloading this week.

With love

-pheroze

Ah friends-

It seems every time I post on here as of late that I’m apologizing for not posting more often or putting out some new music. Well time for another apology! I will ABSOLUTELY start posting new songs up next week. Gilroy, my friendly gnome, told me the timing is right.

In other news, I have joined NYC rockin’ heavy weights Swear On Your Life as their guitar player. Awesome people, awesome band, and I look forward to riffing and shredding off all your faces with them on stage. And then, of course, helping you pick your visage off the floor, reconstruct it perfectly, and resist the urge to make you all look like Cindy Crawford circa 1992.

And in even more news, Swear On Your Life is playing this weekend at Crash Mansion in NYC. We’re on at 10:30. Hope to see you there.

2010 will be kinda huge across the board. Looking forward to it.

Love
-pheroze

And by “bitches” I mean Microsoft. Remember when I wrote that Microsoft had selected my groovy track “Lorelei” to be part of a campaign centered on indie music and their Zune-pod?

Well, the campaign is over and “Lorelei” went all Hulk and SMASHED expectations. Reverb Nation and Microsoft had set a number of downloads they expected “Lorelei” to hit – well “Lorelei” did EIGHT TIMES that amount. Yeah, 8X that amount. Follow the eight-fold path bitches. If they gave me $5 for each download I could retire comfortably for a month. But they didn’t, it’s a flat fee. They gave me enough to update to Windows 7 or get the new Halo game.They’re cheap, but I love them now. No, you can’t borrow money.

Thank you for downloading! And thank you for the support! And thank you for being a friend! You’re the best Golden Girls ever!

More free music coming later this week, and more NEW music coming soon.

Friends,
No need to flog me. I’ve self-flagellated enough already. I’ve been away as other parts of my existence have become a little more time consuming.

On the plus side, my nourishing typing now features Alpha hydroxy and extra-enriched moisturizers clinically proven for very dry, flaky minds. Keep reading my blog and, in time, your minds will be more moist than Miss Piggy’s snout after a swamp tussle with Kermit.

Why the internet was made

Beyond keeping grub on the table I’ve been writing MUSIC. Much music. I aim to have a follow up to Driftwood released in 2010.I’ll be putting some demo tracks from the upcoming album up here for free download soon – very soon. Stay tuned!

I’ll put some more lotion on y’all soon loves. In the meantime, I implore you to work those rough elbows with the little droplets that come from following me on Twitter. (www.twitter.com/pheroze).

-pheroze

Well folks- on the eve of my going into a studio to lay down some demos of songs for my next album, I get the news that one of my songs has been selected by Microsoft to be offered as a free download for a campaign they are running for Microsoft Windows Sponsored Songs.

What song was picked? Well none other than my lovely ditty “Lorelei” – a song that was about 7 years too late to make it into consideration for Gilmour Girls theme music. And for that I am thankful. Yet tearful.

So here’s the deal – I must make it clear that Microsoft is not sponsoring me as an artist. They just dig that tune and want to give it to you for free. And they are not making me fetch coffee for them or  rub the boils on their feet or even make claims like “Ballmer pwnz ur ass.” Peter Moore did call and say he would have gotten my name tattooed on his bicep if he still worked there. Then he snorted and cackled and made my phone disappear into a puff of smoke.

Well, the song is FREE. So go download it by clicking here:

Even if you already have the song- be awesome and download it again. Even Clippy concurs.

What is Best in Life? Downloading Lorelei!

Unless I get gored during the week by a runaway wildebeest- I’ll be playing this Sunday on June 21st at 7PM at Otto’s Shrunken Head in Manhattan. Come on down for, much like that wildebeest, it’s free! Unless it gets abducted by an alien and becomes a prime representative of our species for exploratory dissection. Thanks wildebeest! Details on the show can be found on my Tour page.

This show will also mark the first live show I’ve played with a bass player in the fold! Please welcome Joe “Joey Baby” Pepitone to the fold. He’ll be holding down the low end and I’m very excited to have him on board.

In two weeks I enter the studio to start demoing songs for my next album. The new songs are coming out great and I look forward to sharing some early recordings with you soon! This time I’ll even remove my bodily fluids from them. If you want a sneak peek soon, then come to the Otto’s show – where we’ll be unveiling at least 5 new songs. Who knows, Fred Hardcastle might even show up.

Joe Renaud, Joey Pepitone and I have been polishing these new songs up – and I think you’re in for a treat. So go to the fridge and make yourself a brownie sandwich or fried cat salad,

mmmm..... Cat Salad

then put on your reading glasses and peep these new song titles:

Show Me Tomorrow

Conversations with a Knife

The Stolen

Old Sad Laughter

Kingdoms

Wreckage of Liars

Caught in the Wheel

They’re so awesome I italicized them.

More soon, things are in the works.