Joshua Van Tassel

In super beautiful Twin butte alberta, only have a minute. Had an amazing hike, a great show, then the largest fire I’ve ever seen. Our host dug a 12 foot deep pit in the ground and loaded in the wood that once belonged to his grandfathers barn. Amazing. Lethbridge tonight.

Left Winnipeg this morning and have been rocking it through the praries. Lots of van time, what have we been doing today you ask?
- almost done reading “Freedom”. Lots of messed up characters that you feel sad for, angry at, and still somehow like as well good sign of a good book. A lot of time spent discussing US politics, not my forte.
- listened to some Morrisey, hadnt really ever done that, kind of liked it.
- worked on some new music for about 30 minutes because i desperately need a new laptop battery and our power adaptor doesnt seem to want to help me out.
- now listening to Okervill River and watching rain get closer to us. Not much excitement here friends, sleepy.

Spent last night in a beautiful log house of outside of thunder bay. Our amazing host Anthea schooled us in hard to find 60′s r and b, and then provided some of the best coffee I’ve ever had upon us getting up. Happy.

In the van enroute to Manitoba, surpisingly still getting cell reception, listening to Cass McCombs. After tonight we head straight out to calgary for a couple days off, where Im going to hook up for some quick recording with my good friend and keyboard slayer Joanna Borromeo. We’re tracking at the banff centre which I havent been to in years, should be fun.
On a side note, i caught the end of a metal band called Arsonists get all the Girls, and it was crazy. It’s kind of refeshing to hear music that’s completely not like what we’re playing every night or listening to in the van. I have a serious healthy respect for metal drummers too, holy cow they can do crazy things. hey how about a dirt road picture? Ok

Day one so far, enroute to Sault ste. Marie
- we brought our own kettle,coffee, and bodum to be free of the monopoly of Tim Hortons the kettle doesn’t work, and Devon broke the bodum.
- listened to an amazing Radio lab podcast about human/machine interaction
- i started reading “Freedom” by Jonathan Franzen, and had a listen to a beautiful Olympic Symphonium tune I’m remixing.
- took a picture of this truck

Also using the wordpress app for my iphone for the first time in a long time, and its great so far.

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to make music like this. Craaaaazy…maybe minus the saxophone and have a sweet keyboard.

Day one of some recording with Kate Roger, Chris Stringer at the helm. Super fun so far, getting great sounds and the company is just great. Great.

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Co-writing a number with Josh Cockerill today, I think it’ll be a fun one. Fun as in moody depressing and dark.