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Summer/2017 - LEK finished mastering 2 new cd's! Available shortly.
06/2011 - LEK fall schedule- 8/11 - Pete's Candy Store - NYC, 8/26/11 - Imagine in Nicaragua, 9/7/11 - Arlene's Grocery - NYC, 9/18/11 - Cameo Gallery - NYC
02/25/2010 - New website is up. Newly released albums are finally here.
10/12/2009 - Follow LEK on Twitter ... New albums in mixing stages.
06/13/2009 - 2 psych albums have been recorded and are in the mixing stages (waiting for our tape machine to be fixed!). LEK's 2 books of poetry and drawings are in its final stages of editing, and a piano album is being recorded. No world travelling probably this summer as surgery is required on Lek's right foot due to a Muay Thai kickboxing injury. Instead, well, more music will be recorded, with performances now slated for the fall of 2009!
01/06/2009 - LEK is busy in the studio preparing a few albums for release in 2009 to be supported by a summer or fall tour (with occasional gigs before a possibliity!). 2 Psychedelic/Shoegaze albums, 1 acoustic album, 1 acoustic piano / avant garde / classical, 1 rockin' album, and a book of poetry!. Also, the website will be revamped with newly added poetry, travel pictures and videos from around the world.
11/12/2008 - I am saddened by the death of my favorite drummer
of all time, Mitch
Mitchell, of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. It was a dream
of mine to jam with him some day, and to hear him play live. Sadly, I
won't get to do this, but the countless live Hendrix concerts will provide
me with endless joy of his playing
.
010/03/2008 - Lek's Killing Floor Jam up at youtube or myspace
09/09/2008 - The coolest MMA fighter ever to walk the planet died in the desert near
San Diego on a spiritual adventure. Very sad. Here is a quote by him:
“Today, I ran to the store to pick up a few
things, and with the lonesome, quiet desert thoughts on my mind, I couldn’t
help but be struck with their brutally stark contrast to my current surroundings,
the amazing congestion in which we exist day to day,” he wrote.
“The landscape as far as I could see, crowded, choked, with me and
the rest of the species, an almost writhing mass of organisms, fighting
over space and resources … on the highways, in the parking lots,
on the sidewalks, and in the aisle of the stores."
“And to think, there are still places in the
world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where the
mysteries stand secure, untouched by human eyes. I want to go to these
places, the quiet, timeless, ageless places, and sit, letting silence
and solitude be my teachers.” ... Evan Tanner - free spirit and
former UFC middleweight champion, whose final entrance music was "All
Along the Watchtower" by Hendrix. Evan wrote a blog about his life's
adventures and thoughts... I think I may be inspired to follow in his
footsteps
09/01/2008 - Wow! The last month in Thailand
was amazing ending in a performance at NoSpace art gallery in Bangkok
- video to be posted on youtube/website soon! LEK backpacked from Bangkok
to Hua Hin, Koh Samui and Phangan (full moon party), Kao Sok National
Park and Jungle Trekking, bodysurfing on Phuket, lots of bus and train
travel meeting new Thai and European friends. Pics and Video to be posted.
08/31/2008 - Future Ideas - poetry pages, travel logs, video and clips from around the world
8/28/2008 in Bangkok Thailand at No Space, a gallery which "exhibits indie, pop, street and experimental art by international artists in the various formats of drawing, painting, printing, sculpture and installation, included performance." 178 Pridi Phanomyong 20 Sukhumvit 71 Bangkok Thailand 10110 - check myspace.com/lekmusic for any changes/time
08/2008 - August - LEK will be roaming around Thailand and Laos, for performances, adventure, r&r, and writing new songs
07/21/2008 - Had a great time playing in NYC and Baltimore, thanks to all who came :)
7/18/2008 - Tonight's gig at Lofi Social Club - eat some crab before you come
7/13/2008 - Tonight's gig at Goodbye Blue Monday - Brooklyn, NYC. Free cd of upcoming cd to those who ask! This will be videotaped and recorded - inquire about receiving a copy.
06/2008 - New
Myspace information:
LEK - only shoegazer/experimental/psych/spacerock myspace.com/lekmusic
LEK TRAVELS - acoustic & more 'mainstream' psychedelic
rock myspace.com/lektravels
06/01/2008 - LEK playing Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn, NYC on July 13th 10:30pm
05/09/2008 LEK playing SW Burrito in a 1 hour blitz show
- 4 bands total. New Brunswick, NJ 7:00pm.
04/28/2008 - Northeast Tour in July - stay
tuned
04/2008 - Press update
03/2008 - Radio Promotion Update - More than 160 Radio Stations now playing LEK
10/2007 - Fuzzworld Records presents LEK's new CD - OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE 11/27/07!
GIANT WORLD KNOWLEDGE BLISS CONTROL
04/2007 - Listen on the radio and the internet Aural Innovations Radio Show #177, NEW Radio Show #180 - featuring Gotam Squidco Radio Show featuring Fuzzworld
03/18/07... Check out myspace.com/lekmusic - and become a friend! Also, cd will be available 3/26/07
02/01/07... CD will be available in approximately 1 month - you will be able to order here online! T-shirts and posters available too
9/10/06... another excellent summer backpacking expedition through Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. The first month was pure travel but the second month had some serious songwriting going on. These songs will be out on a brand new CD and hopefully on vinyl sometime mid-2007. The Killing Fields in Cambodia were saddening, Vietnam and some gut-wrenching food poisoning after eating a tainted coconut. The war museum was interesting. More jamming with the same band from a couple years ago in Chumphon, Thailand - a country style music called 'Luk Thung'
4/15/06... hello all :) Thanks to all who participated in the Lek CD Pilot Program. As promised, a free cd will be given to those who participated.
8/05/05... just close your fantasmoplamorphic mind and envision my all encompassing orphic imagery pumping and shooting at 192 kilohertz fresh from the bottom of my void. This planet is cheesewhiz. Close your mind and envision three dimensional graphic wawa wave forms, waxing and waning volatile mixtures of ambient nothingness pervading our all consuming senses.
01/01/05... New songs being recorded
09/05/04 ... Back from the motherland, Thailand, after 2 months of a renewed love affair. Jammed with a couple Thai bands onstage and made some inroads into the quirky Thai music scene... the results of which remain to be seen. Bangkok was great, as well as backpacking through southern and northern Thailand.
04/04 to 06/04...
New songs 'Dance Round the Sun', 'Road Angels', 'The Endless Hole',
as well as a couple of instrumentals
05/07/04... A few songs will be available before
I take off to Thailand and Laos for the summer to write new songs
and jam with musicians.
04/14/04... Backpacking in Mexico breaks up the monotony of life. A mystical wonderful time. Jamming with Mexican musicians in Puerto Escondido, home of the Mexican Pipeline. Mexico City was a trip, the beautiful colonial town of Oaxaca, and on to surfing at the beach. The smell of authentic tortillas cooking on the street imprinted in my mind. Very helpful, hospitable people. Conquered the peligroso Mexico City walking bleary eyed at 2am on the empty deserted streets carrying a 2 inch sharp pencil to stop those who dared confront me.
11/03 to 03/04... New songs being written as always. 'Western Wall', 'Land of Smiles', 'Peru', 'Illusory JoeB', 'Snake in the Eye', 'Welcome to Paradise', 'Post Travellin Blues', 'Esquesa'
11/01/03... LEK works with Julliard mentor Edgar Grana. Edgar has taught several world class award winning musicians, and has written or produced platinum albums and ballets. All old songs are put aside, a new vision begins.
08/05/03... A summer backpacking trip to Peru, Argentina, and Brazil.. Peru was excellent - a snazzy time in Miraflores, on to Arequipa and Cuzco, Maccu Piccu and altitude sickness. Boliva thrown out the window for Buenos Aires in Argentina - a kickass city, some nice friends. Brazil was Curitiba and a crazy guy named Diogo, and staying at a surf house in Florianopolis in the south with some great Brazilian friends. Incidentally, I still like Niagra Falls better than Iguazu!
04/03... Lek performances are temporarily stopped after group differences (gee, wow, in a rock band?)
01/03 to 04/03... Lek gigs around New York and New Jersey