Audio
Current
Arrow Kleeman . Phase Reps & Builds
Using my name and no longer an alternative moniker, this album is now available as a limited edition audio cassette and digitally on the Root Strata label as of April 15, 2011, and can be purchased at Thrill Jockey. A digital version is also available at Fina and Boomkat.
This project revolves around percussive melodic structures that are shifted and shaped over time. There is an emphasis on overlapping differing time signatures, transposition of melodic sequences, and generally building a cohesive "song" from simple elements all while trying to maintain an emotional arc.
While all this music was created using mostly software synthesizers, I am currently building an analog modular system to evolve this method of creating music away from the software environment.
Album artwork above painted by Dan Kleeman
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Arrow Kleeman . Listening Party
I never wanted to perform with a computer but have been interested in finding a way to perform the music I have been composing in the computer outside of the software environment. The first track on this mini-album is a recording of music I composed using a hybrid analog modular synthesizer and performed on February 6, 2011. The recording is of a live performance, with all the imperfections of a real time event but was recorded at home, one week after the initial performance and without an audience. The three following tracks were recorded at around the same time. Performing live with an analog synthesizer is dare I say a little unpredictable but fun all the same. This music is different than what I was striving for and took on a life all it's own. I am still figuring out the possibilities, which seem endless, and hope that I will be able to share more experiments in the near future.
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Arrow Kleeman . The Light Periscope
This digital EP is an assorment of music I recorded along side the synthesizer music of the past 7 months, beginning in September 2011. The first three tracks are more rock centered, using guitar and drums with some voice. The last track goes along with Phase Reps & Builds (above) but was done after the album had been completed.
Past
Lilienthal
From 1997-2004 I produced and performed electronic music under the name Lilienthal. Using only an Akai s3000xl sampler, an early Atari Stacy laptop computer with Creator sequencing software and whatever sounds I could make, I created a considerable catalogue of releases.
Lilienthal Discography
Expanding vs. Static, 10" Compilation, Static Caravan/Expanding Records, 2003
Anti-Matter, 10" EP, Delikatessen Records, 2002
Make Shift/Carousel, CD EP, Collaboration w/Sybarite w/Sonna, trl ltd., 2002
Make Shift/Carousel, 7", Collaboration w/Sybarite w/Sonna, Zeal Records, 2002
Tin Grey Black, 12" Mini Album, Static Caravan, 2001
Zealelectronic Pink, 7", Zealelectronic, 2000
Sets and Rises / Rises and Sets, 7" Split w/Tarentel, Awkward Silence Recordings, 2000
Castor & Pollux, CD Album, Emanate Records, 1999
Emanated, CD/LP x 2 Compilation, Emanate Records, 1998
For more tracks on compilations and remixes please go to Discogs
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The Silver Apples
In 1996 my good friend and bandmate Xian Hawkins (Sybarite and Bell Horses) met Simeon of the the 1960's experimental band The Silver Apples. Upon learning that his old band was having a resurgence among the musically interested youth of the day, Simeon asked me, Xian, and Michael lerner (currently a member of The Antlers) to join him in relaunching The Silver Apples. soon after we played a sold out debut show at the Knitting Factory, and performed live on WFMU 91.1 fm.
Mobius Strip
I met, Xian Hawkins, my friend and collaborator at Pratt Institute in 1992 while we were both pursuing fine art degrees. We started playing guitars together soon after we met and we began to incorporate electronic elements into our music to make up for there only being two of us. Electronic music was starting to show up everywhere, particularly on the labels that we found ourselves attracted to.
We bought an Ensoniq EPS sampler, a roland drum machine, and some effects and just started experimenting. since we were both multi-instrumentalists, playing live instruments remained at the center of our music. By 1994 we began calling our collaboration Mobius Strip while performing all around New York City.
This demo tape was recorded in 1995 on a Yamaha 4 track cassette recorder.
Mobius Strip Demo by Arrow Kleeman and Xian Hawkins
The Ochrana
The Ochrana, my high school new wave punk band, had a bit of a following in New York, in the late 1980's. Arrow Kleeman - guitar. Guy Richards Smit - vocals and bass. Diane Davis - bass. David Patti - drums.
Early
I have been experimenting with sound for most of my life. We had an old upright piano in the living room of our brooklyn loft that was pretty much mine. I would spend hours impovising on it, and overdubbing myself using two boombox recorders. There was an old bass drum and snare that my uncle passed on to me, as well as a maroon electric guitar that looked like it had been built by someone's grandfather in a suburban basement somewhere. There was that Casio CZ-101 synthesizer I bought in elementary school with my own money, and a wooden banjo I made while at summer camp. In school a friend taught me a few guitar chords, which surprisingly stuck, and just enough for me to start a band once I could hold them down for more than a just a few seconds.