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FUNCTION 8
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: In The Interim
Format: CD+DVD Catalog
Number:		 FER88817
Price: $13.00 Label: Function 8
Release
Date:		 3/31/08
***Jet Black Crayon re-emerges with their fifth release and the first since 2004's Inaccuracies of the Mind Machine. On In The Interim, Tommy Guerrero (Quannum Projects, Mo'Wax, Galaxia, Function 8), Monte Vallier (ex-Swell, Def American/American Recordings, Beggars Banquet) and Gadget (Function 8) worked closely with independent filmmakers, and seven of the nine tracks on the album are complemented with short films. The filmmakers include Andrew Paynter (music photographer, artist), Dan Wolfe (skateboard filmmaker: Real Skateboards, Nike SB, Adidas SB, etc.), Greg Hunt (skateboard filmmaker: DC Shoes, Transworld Media, Alien Workshop), Cheryl Dunn (filmmaker and photographer: Beautiful Losers) and Christophe Beaucourt (independent French filmmaker).

Those familiar with Jet Black Crayon will find a renewed soundscape, and those familiar with Guerrero's music will note a more visual, cerebral, and textural sound. The interplay between music and film on In the Interim is key. The creative process was a true collaboration-- the band and the filmmakers exchanged rough mixes and edits, allowing them to shape the respective audio and visual parts in tandem. Some of the songs dynamically move to the films while others create a moody score. Check out musical cameos from John Herndon and Dan Bitney (Tortoise) on "Lost in the Fog," the powerful spoken word of Pete Simonelli (The Enablers) on "My Fair Romans," and longtime Jet Black Crayon collaborator Charlie Hall playing drums on "Brighter Days."

Prior to the release of In the Interim, the film/song "Lost in the Fog" (film by Dan Wolfe) was accepted into the Underskatement 4 Film Festival.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Memory Lost
8 Bad Years
20 Hundred
Lost In The Fog
Monday
Brighter Days
My Fair Romans
The Mussenger
Post Meridian
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: Inaccuracies Of The Mind Machine
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 88815
Price: $12.00 Label: Function 8
Release
Date:		 6/21/04
On their first full length release for Function 8 Records, Jet Black Crayon takes two steps sideways and nine leaps forward. The record is a beautiful whole, performed by Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and Gadget, with drumming from Johnny Herndon (Tortoise, Isotope 217, A Grape Dope), Charlie Hall, and then some. It's been crafted and fine-tuned every inch of the way-- music for mourning stars and dapper dervishes.

Where "Trace" and "Orca" lay low in the cut, drums skittering about, bass lines plunking heavy, "If Only" soars to new and glorious heights. "Eyes Closed, Numbers Appear" tolls like a funeral dirge-- a slow, strange highway to Somewhere Else, leaving one puzzled, exhausted, and wanting more. Melodicas wail away and live strings add striking eeriness. It's sublime, mature stuff. "The Mentalist," for instance, wants a drive along the Coast. "Tomorrow Was Raining" sounds like it just stepped out of an Alex Cox movie. This is soulful, quirky and beautiful music, from a group of fine young fellows reaching for something more.
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: Low Frequency Speaker Test
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 FER88808CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Function 8
Release
Date:		 5/22/00
***Mo' Wax hot hand and gifted skateboard enthusiast TOMMY GUERERRO puts the chill on and hooks up with fellow smoovesters DJ GADGET, TIM DeGAUGH, and MONTE VALLIER (SWELL) for some funky, atmospheric, electro-acoustic mella. Two basses, one drummer and a deejay keeping you frosty, so you can stay fresh. Enhanced CD features a video for an unreleased song.
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: Mean Streets
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 FER88813
Price: $4.25 Label: Function 8
Release
Date:		 3/31/03
*** Mo' Wax hot hand and gifted skateboard enthusiast TOMMY GUERERRO puts the chill on and hooks up with fellow smoovesters DJ GADGET, TIM DeGAUGH, and MONTE VALLIER (SWELL) for some funky, atmospheric, electro-acoustic seven-inch mella.
GALAXIA
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: Experiments In The Space Metal Time Signature
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 GLX18
Price: $8.25 Label: Galaxia
Release
Date:		 10/20/03
***This EP is the result of a request from Thomas Campbell (Galaxia) who came to some live improv shows Jet Black Crayon used to do on Sundays at Amnesia in San Francisco. He wanted the band to capture the drunken meandering vibe of those shows for this EP. At the shows Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier, Gadget, and Tim DeGaugh would usually do two sets of an hour to an hour-and-a-half, playing some Jet Black Crayon songs but mostly just making things up on the spot and rolling with them. The improvisations were atmospheric, and sometimes got heavy in a funk/soul sort of way. Experiments In The Space Metal Time Signature is Jet Black Crayon's favorite parts of a couple hours' worth of the studio recordings performed similarly.
Artist: JET BLACK CRAYON Title: Experiments In The Space Metal Time Signature
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 GLX18CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Galaxia
Release
Date:		 10/6/03
***This EP is the result of a request from Thomas Campbell (Galaxia) who came to some live improv shows Jet Black Crayon used to do on Sundays at Amnesia in San Francisco. He wanted the band to capture the drunken meandering vibe of those shows for this EP. At the shows Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier, Gadget, and Tim DeGaugh would usually do two sets of an hour to an hour-and-a-half, playing some Jet Black Crayon songs but mostly just making things up on the spot and rolling with them. The improvisations were atmospheric, and sometimes got heavy in a funk/soul sort of way. Experiments In The Space Metal Time Signature is Jet Black Crayon's favorite parts of a couple hours' worth of the studio recordings performed similarly.

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