From Break of Dawn Til Creep of Night · posted 3 November 2008

mp3 (8:40)

field recordings, iphone, stompboxes, percussion, guitar, delay, amplifier, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das

In Our Gardens There Is Light · posted 21 October 2008

mp3 (10:18)

field recordings, iphone, stompboxes, cymbal, guitar, delay, amplifier, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das

Trackwork, Breakwork · posted 5 October 2008

mp3 (14:04)

field recordings, flute, voice, vocoder, guitar, delay, microkorg, amplifier, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Eve Locastro, Jason Das

We'll be performing at Monkeytown on October 10 · posted 30 September 2008

If you’re in New York City on October 10, come to Monkeytown and hear the Glass Bees perform. We will be improvising live sound for video projections by artist Peter Shapiro Guillaume Clave. This will take place as an installment of the Forward Motion Theater’s EyeWash series. Monkeytown is a very special venue, with comfortable seating and four huge video screens. We’re very excited and hope you will be too.

Also on the bill:
MOSTRA + Nico Mazet
VBLANK + AUTO DA FE
VJ Pixalot

Monkeytown
58 N. 3rd St. (btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
$5 + $10 food/drink minimum
Reservations recommended. Call 718-384-1369, e-mail monkeytownhq@aol.com, or use their reservations form.

Captains of Industry · posted 29 September 2008

mp3 (4:51)

percussive objects and samples, delay, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das

Chico MacMurtrie "Caught in the Act" · posted 26 September 2008

Our tracks Welterweight and Ça Fa Palome are on the soundtrack for a video profile of artist Chico MacMurtrie on Caught in the Act: Art in Brooklyn. We’d like to thank filmmaker Nerina Penzhorn for selecting us. We love the way our music works with the film, and we’re fans of Chico’s work. (Nerina previously put us on the soundtrack for her film Saint Jude.)

Produced by Randy Stulberg
Edited by Nerina Penzhorn
for Brooklyn Independent Television

Personnel: Chris Williams, Jason Das, Nerina Penzhorn

Another Year With Nothing to Do · posted 25 September 2008

mp3 (8:14)

ocarina, cymbal, shell rattles, snare drum, microkorg, field recordings, chimes, yamaha eos, amplifier, delay, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das

We made a CD, Introducing The Glass Bees: Tops Crops Snaps Hots · posted 31 July 2008

We’ve sifted through the archives and applied some spit and shine, and are now thrilled to announce the release of our first full-length album, Tops Crops Snaps Hots. The collection compiles highlights of our past web-only releases, remastered and lovingly sequenced into a continuous 63’25” mix,

Tops Crops Snaps Hots is available for sale as a jewel-boxed CD-R for $10 (including domestic US shipping). Please contact us via e-mail to purchase a copy. All proceeds will be used to cover costs and your support will help make future Glass Bees projects possible. There are two editions (so far) of the packaging. The music is exactly the same for each. Please specify which you’d prefer when you order.

The packaging for the first edition features illustrations and hand-carved, hand-stamped type by Jason Das, Each one’s a little bit different, just like you. Here’s four examples:

The second edition is more mass-produced and looks like this:

Tops Crops Snaps Hots was mastered by Jim Bentley, and mixed by Jim, Jason, and Chris at the Fort in Brooklyn. The CD includes the following tracks:

1. Sand Dunes
2. Whooping Crane (with flute by Eve Locastro)
3. Preface Introduction
4. GBKA
5. The Next Spring
6. Roland’s Song
7. Thunder on the Prairie
8. The Martial Plan
9. The Weavers of Schalkenmehren
10. I Shot the Serif
11. Merges Aquasitions

Big thanks to those who have played us on the radio, including WFMU, Little Fyodor at KGNU, WPRB and Jon Solomon’s Local Support podcast.

We hope you enjoy it, too.

Getaways in New Jersey · posted 29 July 2008

mp3 (11:24)

Live Performance at Chris’s Birthday Party, June 7th 2008.

percussion, electric guitar, amplifiers, farfisa, stompboxes, sneeze, yamaha eos, microkorg, flute, etc.

Personnel: Chris Williams, Eve Locastro, Jason Das

Take Advantage of the Setting Sun · posted 5 July 2008

mp3 (10:09)

psaltery, kalimba, percussion, electric guitar, amplifier, stompboxes, yamaha eos, voice, microkorg, field recordings, etc.

Personnel: Andrea Williams, Chris Williams, Jason Das