carrie's self-promotion post: there's still time to be the 3rd person to solve, or the 13th or so person to listen to and enjoy, what is universally lauded as the most delectable musical album of the last several months (if not years): that beloved crossword album known only as “Puzzles of 2025”.

i hadn't heard of jazz pianist Jessica Jennifer Williams until a couple days ago, but wow these rediscovered prepared piano recordings are so good imo! she gets some really cool sounds to happen and has a great control over the relationship between timbres pre-echo.bandcamp.com/album/blue-a...

nearly time once more to settle in on a beautifully cold night and contemplate the year as it ends. it was a notably awful year across the world, as has been every year i've lived through, but they've all had some good things to remember too.

“Puzzles of 2025” has been out for a week and already two people have solved the crossword puzzle! that means you could still be the 3rd solver, and then we'll be legally obligated to make a physical version to meet our foolhardy promise to give copies of said version to the first 3 solvers! wow!

it's a nice day to enjoy music, but so is every day! i have logged into social media because it is time for a promotional post for the new album:

a beautiful snowy day today, and it was nice to use it to work on music… the big project is in the home stretch!

i've been delighted to discover over the last several months that listening to audiobooks from the library is a quite effective way around the various OCD-related problems that have made reading books and other longer texts extremely and embarrassingly difficult for me, for like over a decade…

“Puzzles of 2025”, by me and Hedra Rowan, is now up for pre-order!!!! it'll be out on December 5. meanwhile, you can read the liner notes and listen to 3 of the 40 songs now, which should give you an idea of how deranged of an undertaking it is. enjoy! puzzlesof2025.bandcamp.com/album/puzzle...

hedy and i, your favorite regular girls, had a fun several days recording Puzzles of 2025 in person… it’s really happening !

this'll be in a bit! in chicago! i might be first actually, who knows. hope you're doing okay out there

i'm going to make a rare live appearance, in Logan Square in Chicago, the evening of Thursday Sept. 25. it'll be a short set (following a set by Angel Destroyer), in which i'll either improvise atonally on the piano for half an hour or do something else. comfortstationlogansquare.org/calendar/202...

listening to the early Chuck Mangione album "Recuerdo" (1962) and they do "Solar"... and give the tune in the head to the bass??? it's probably partly because it's late and i'm stressed out, but i find this choice utterly absurd. Sam Jones rises to the occasion tho! www.youtube.com/watch?v=usNX...

when i was a kid listening to Tom Lehrer, i learned about how the new Iraq War had a panoply of horrifying antecedents in 20th-century U.S. interventionist military policy, and i learned the word "fellatio" from the same song. rest in peace scoundrel

Re-posting this album trailer. I don't think i've ever before made a trailer for anything i was working on, so this was fun to do. If you turn on the sound you can hear some sound.

I have a brief video to announce my latest upcoming musical project. But I don't know what the etiquette is here on "Bluesky" for uploading videos, so I'm going to put it in the middle of this thread, so that hopefully it will not annoy anyone by playing automatically.

(oh also i got a booster for the covid vaccine today; it is still allowed to do that ! )

i hate war and i hate imperialism and i hate ethnonationalism and thus i've been continually ashamed for my entire life of the country where i live. it's meaningless to say this, particularly to an audience of no one, but i felt the need to say it publicly somewhere regardless.

Happy solstice, everyone!

wow! heady with lots of feeling is all i wanna be! plus i'm very ready to be at the forefront of a second wave of "indie classical". what the classical music world is missing is lo-fi recordings and getting notes wrong; i honestly believe this. thanks notype!

It is time to contemplate, it is time to dance. It is time for Satie Complete Piano Works Volume 12 by carrie z. carriez.bandcamp.com/album/satie-...

tomorrow night, if all goes well.

i'm doing well (considering), and i'm still spending time on music. (just thought i would "post" about that here on "bluesky" and "mastodon", in case anyone thought i'd disappeared for good (even though i think most of my like 3 social media followers are people i know in real life).)

It's time ow to write a promotional post here on "Bluesky" for my music. Today, since it is "Bandcamp Friday", on said platform they revenue share blah blah blah. fumikok.bandcamp.com

I made a "Bluesky" account at last, and this is the first post of that "Bluesky" account.