Chad Crouch

May 14, 2018 In Chad Crouch, Kele Goodwin, Loch Lomond, Peter Broderick, Shelley Short, YEYEY

New Releases form Loch Lomond, Peter Broderick, YEYEY and More!

Hey Folks,

It’s been a minute!  I hope you are all enjoying Spring.  I’ve just got a couple of announcements that I thought many of you might find interesting.

Loch Lomond –  Night Bats / White Dresses LP & Download Out May 25, Available For Order
The White Dresses EP was originally released in 2012 to promote a European tour and has never been available in the US – only as an import. It is being reissued on vinyl with the preceeding “Night Bats” EP back to back, on one vinyl LP!
HUSH, Spotify & Apple 


Peter Broderick – How They Are Mini LP Out May 25, Available For Order
In 2010, after completing work on his elaborate sophomore release, Peter Broderick went into the studio with the goal of recording and mixing an album in one day, live to two-track tape, with no overdubs or punch-ins. The instrumentation was limited to voice, guitar and piano. How They Are is possibly Peter Broderick’s most intimate recording.
HUSH, Spotify & Apple

YEYEY “Wild Things” Video Debuts Today, “Am I The Devil” (SHSHA Remix) Out Now
Peep the new video for “Wild Things” on Vimeo!

Previously available only as a bonus track in Japan, YEYEY’s “Am I The Devil? (SHSHA Remix)” is an ambitious EDM remix for fans of Rhye, Bonobo, & recent collaborator pronoun.
Spotify & Apple

Kele Goodwin, Shelley Short & Chad Crouch all have recent / new releases
Find Kele Goodwin’s new album Moonbug on Bandcamp and Shelley Short’s Pacific City on Bandcamp as well, both released in the last half of 2017.

I’ve started making music under my own name–Chad Crouch–again after a decade as Podington Bear.  Find Birds of Oaks Bottom: Piano Solos and the forthcoming Odyssey (out this Friday) available on Bandcamp, Apple & Spotify

Thanks friends! Be well.
Chad

June 9, 2011 In Chad Crouch, Podington Bear

The Free 500 Track Sound Of Picture Production Library

HUSH is pleased to announce a resource for creative work or entertainment: a 300 piece music collection dubbed The Sound Of Picture Production Library, from artist Podington Bear, also known as Chad Crouch.  The entire collection is free for NC-BY Creative Commons personal use and as a tool for producers, directors, game developers, etc.

Visit soundofpicture.com to search and audition individual tracks by mood or instrumentation category, and / or Download the entire 300 500 cue collection in four parts:

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Sound of Picture Production Library Part 1 (700mb zip folder)

Sound of Picture Production Library Part 2 (700mb zip folder)

Sound of Picture Production Library Part 3 (800mb zip folder)

 

May 4, 2009 In Chad Crouch

Chad Crouch – Sound of Picture Vol. 3 Free Download

A couple months ago a made this batch of songs which I kinda liked. They are notable for being different from anything I’ve done before:  Ambient.  Now I’m thinking it’s time to set the audio free into the world, so voila, Sound of Picture Vol 3.

Download for free, or suggested donation in the HUSHshop.

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Sound of Picture Vol 3 sampler mix

I also made videos for them. Here’s one for the first track, “Sad Cyclops”.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuvDuY6Q660

They can be seen in a continuous playlist here.

For more instrumental music consider downloading Vol 1 & 2; short, simple, melodic compositions to accompany photographs.

May 2, 2009 In Blanket Music, Chad Crouch, Podington Bear

Magic $3 Sale: Blanket Music, Toothfairy, Chad Crouch.

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Total bargain alert! We’re having a special sale beginning today: That’s right: 3 albums (aged 3+ years) on sale for $3 each, for 3 weeks only! This will be a limited-time offer with rotating specials from our back catalog. Available in the HUSHshop.

I’m going to be the guinea pig and step up to the plate with a sampling from my own discography over the years. Beginning in 1997 we have my only canonical vocal solo release, entitled Portland, Or. Jumping ahead to 2004, my band Blanket Music released Cultural Norms, maybe the snappiest offering from Yours Truly, and has the footnote distinction of breaking into the CMJ top 20. Pitchfork spake thus:

Crouch understands the difference between getting in people’s faces, and inviting them to come to him… he easily could have erred in the other direction by pitching headlong into the cultural wars. Instead, he found a perfect balance, and this is his most compelling album.

Five years on, I’m not sure if I understand anything really, but I am inviting you to consider owning this artifact and judging for yourself.

Lastly, the short-lived Toothfairy mini album Formative is an interesting foray which looks back and forward simultaneously. The lyrics paint a detailed pastiche of adolescence while the electronic palette is certainly an antecedent to Podington Bear, my outlet for instrumental ditties.

So, have a listen and consider for your collection.

Blanket Music - "Cultural Norms"

Blanket Music – “Cultural Norms” Sampler Mix

Chad Crouch - "Portland, Or."

Chad Crouch – “Portland, Or.” Sampler Mix

Toothfairy - "Formative"
Toothfairy – “Formative” Sampler Mix

January 15, 2009 In Chad Crouch

Chad Crouch goes ambient, makes anti-viral videos.

[dispensing with my usual third person plural voice, here’s some straight talk from Yours Truly]

I’ve started a YouTube Channel for my Sound of Picture songs. I think this type of music thrives when combined with imagery. In this case, I’m breaking form by pairing the music to moving images instead of simply photos.

Furthermore, I’ve started composing ambient music, which will be deployed as per usual via the Sound of Picture podcast. Two of the compositions, “Rubber Molecules” and “Electron Map” are featured in the following:

I’ve been thinking of them as antiviral videos simply because they require a different sort of attention span than YouTube tends to nurture. But, perhaps the HD resolution will delight in an unexpected way on the “People’s Tele”. So, subscribe (push that yellow button), no?

watch in HD

watch in HD

watch in HD

January 5, 2009 In Chad Crouch

Sound Of Picture Vol 2 now available FREE

Sound of Picture Vol 2 Sampler Mix

Now available for free/donation in the HUSHshop.

Hot on the heels of Vol 1, we have 20 more short instrumental tracks to accompany photographs collected for your enjoyment and/or use (under a CC BY-NC license) by Chad Crouch. For more on that, there’s this Creative Commons blog entry about Crouch’s (aka Podington Bear) Sound of Picture project.

Enable your album art window, or gander at your iPod to see the corresponding photos! For quality-conscious content creators both volumes are now also available as lossless quality downloads at this bandcamp page (however the tracks are missing their corresponding photos, so the HUSHshop is the recommended source for most users).

Keep abreast with the Sound Of Picture Project via the free podcast.