- east van jam with max, jacko, and Johnny
here’s a nice recording jam from November 26th, of 2010. features max floatation, johnny bitze, and mike jackson along with yours truly. max on the drums if i’m not mistaken. and yes, that’s a real harmonica jacko is playing. has a spacy vibe, with a lot of nice textures in this nearly ten minute long recording.
enjoy
chez
- britney cover
this always makes me laugh. max and i recorded this on yew street back in 2002 or so.
- 13th Street Studio vid
found this old video of max and i having fun way back in December of 2004. taken when i was living near cambie and 13th in vancouver. thought that it would be fun to share. enjoy!
chez
- Oct 10th, 2005 jam session
one more moon tune for you here. this one was recorded back in april of 2005 by moon tunes regular Max Floatation and myself. starts off a little obscure, as many do, then transitions into a solid set of beats. it was fun making it… have fun listening.
chez
- Daryl, max, and chez
i can’t believe that it’s been over nearly a year since our last moon
tunes jam. time really flies. we had a fantastic session to make up for it. d-rock, max floatation and yours truly had a multi hour session loaded with fun sounds, childish ramblings, deep ambient meanderings, and a heap of digital blippy blops. harmonicas and mandolins and ebows, oh my.chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 Jam # 9 - fraser street inauguration
fresh off having his mouth fitted with new braces, max floatation joined the studio for a long overdue innaugural jam at the new jonestown studios location. we were joined by daryl and mike jackson, and recorded a few hours of material that i’m please to share a sample of here. you’ll hear lot’s of variety from track to track, which is still one of my favorite things about the moon tunes environment.
we hope that you like listening
chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 3 Jam # 4 Below the Belt Jam # 5 At the Jam Factory Jam # 6 Hick Hop Jam # 9 Rumpled Like Stilskin - east van basement
this is a rare occaision that we recorded a moon tune session outside
of jonestown. the gracious host of this fun afternoon was daryl, moon tune regular and music gear guru. live drum kit, synths, guitars, and bass round out these two soundscapes. have a listen!chez
Jam # 1 Jam #2 - cookies and jam
max floatation made the trek to vancouver this weekend with the express purpose of gracing jonestown studios with his presence. the jam was the first with the new multi-track fire wire mixer that we’ve tried, and we are happy to report that everything worked beautifully (from the technical point of view, at least). the jams were, as always, full of good variety and fun. there was some nice e-bowing that made it’s way in as well. i’ve included a weird conversation between two german sounding artists – not sure what the hell they were talking about, but it’s worth a laugh, i think…
keep playing music
chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 Jam # 4 COOKIE BREAK! Jam # 7 - max and chez jam
here’s a collection of jams from a session max and i enjoyed. i feel like i say this every time, but we really had a great time recording these tracks. there’s something very rewarding about being able to put together an improvised soundscape that is not only listenable, but actually quite good in both quality and content (if we may say so ourselves…. music, as we all know, is highly subjective, and the audience ever fickle. but i digress). each of these were done, as were all moon tunes, in one take. have a listen to these marvelous jams and let us know if you like?
chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 Jam # 4 - E – Bow jam sesh
well, the world famous EBOW has been added to the jonestown studio barrage of equipment. and wow, what a great gadget. it sounds awesome. i’ve uploaded a little track to serve as a demonstration, and i can definitely see this sound making it’s
way into future chez jonesy and moon tune tracks.it’s basically a little magnet that activates your guitar strings, and gives a fantastic sound that emulates an acoustic string instrument. have a listen to the little diddy that i’ve recorded and see what you think. i highly recommend you going out and picking one up.
chez
Ebow Jam - pre wedding jam session
a great little moon tune session took place at jonestown studios in august (first one in a while… summer was quite busy, what with my wedding and all!). this latest jam included daryl simpson, rosco,
max, and chez in a spirited and varied experience. plenty of interesting forages into the bizarre, with guitars, bass, drum
machines, sunths, harmonicas, more synths, and vocals.i’ve listened to the jams several times now on my own, and there are some really good musical moments. also on that night, we tried something new at the studio. we had a guest run the video camera during a jam (jam 9 to be specific). i’ve taken the video and synced it up with the audio from the jam, and posted the result below. the video quality has been reduced to a manageable size so that it is more easily downloadable here, but upon request, a high res version can be arranged quite easily.
cheers.
chez
Here’s a link to the video file for Jam # 9
Jam # 1 Jam # 3 Jam # 6 Jam # 7 Jam # 10 Jam # 14 - max and jimmy cracker
here’s a few tracks from a great little session we had at jonestown studios with our friends max floatation and jason aka james aka jimmy cracker corn. some great little jams, so i decided to post them all here for your kind review. five full jam sessions for you to listen to below. pay special attention to jam # 5. it’s my fav. takes a minute or two to get going, but believe me, the wait is worth it.
chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 Jam # 4 Jam # 5 - max visiting from Victoria
i’m delighted to announce that max floatation once again broke free from the bonds of victoria for long enough to sit down for a truly epic moon tune session. in total, we recorded seven jams, and i’ve uploaded four of them for your listening pleasure. i’m sure you’ll agree that there is some worthy content here. once again, each of these tracks is un-rehearsed, improvised, and played in a single take. we were quite happy with what we were able to record in just a few hours. it is fair to say that we were both reminded of how much joy can be extracted from playing music. i can’t imagine a life without it. cheers everyone, and contact me if you want to put together a jam some time. Four of the several jams are posted here for your listening enjoyment.
chez.
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 Jam # 7 - Johnny and Andrew in the house
jonestown studios was paid a special visit by johnny and andrew,
who along with myself laid down a few nice moon tune jams. armed with some cool toys, we put together a few really enjoyable sounds. ambient fans, take a listen to one of the tracks we recorded (just click the button below).
chezJam # 2 of the night - Oct 25th, 2005
long standing moon tunes recording artist max floatation is moving to victoria, bc for an undetermined period of time, which of course means that he will not be performing at jonestown studios nearly as often. as a result, we arranged a special final jam session. we got together and recorded three monster tracks, and i’ve posted them here for your review. remember: these tracks are experimental in nature, so be patient… give them time. each of them offers something interesting, and each of them builds into a memorable sonic experience. the rough spots are a necessary part of achieving those brief moments where true harmony is achieved… let me know what you think.
chez
Jam # 1 Jam # 2 Jam # 3 - Hey Johnny
here is the first ever moon tune posting to the public. bear in mind the experimental nature of the work… and by all means, let me know what you think. the track was recorded in may of this year by max floatation (long time friend, jam buddy, and a founding father of the baked tunes/moon tunes concept) and myself. the working title is Hey Johnny… as with all moon tunes, this was recorded in one take, so be gentle on the critique.
chez
- 2002 jam
dug up a cool old moon tune jam that max and i recorded back in 2002. i’ve recently added a new mastering software package to the studio (wavelab) which is really handy. i used it to ‘re-master’ this track in particular while learning the subtleties of the tool. the result is a more crisp and clean track that has far
superior sound quality than the original. have a listen and let us know what you think. oh yeah… check out this old picof max from this exact session. those were the days.chez
2002 Old School Jam
