Update from May
Sensitive Chaos has been slowly and quietly making progress. Glacial progress. The kind that sinks ships.
Several new songs, spontaneously composed from scratch at Jim’s last Aurora Coffee gig, have been refined and recorded to hard disk. One, called Luck Of The Draw, is a spooky, slow tempo Depeche Mode-ish number that is just screaming for a David Gahan vocal. And the second is more vintage Jim ambient groove, complete with a cool sampled conga section slapping away in polyrhythms in the background, all Carlos Santana-esque.
And on a completely separate, but related thread, Jim has been collaborating with Philadelphia print and design artist extrordinaire Eleanor Grosch on a Sensitive Chaos logo. Eleanor has previously worked for such musical luminaries as Wilco, Death Cab For Cutie, Edwin McCain, and the Dave Matthews Band.
One of Eleanor’s own Aesop’s Fables Series prints, “The Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing”, is at left. The whole series, and frankly any of her work, just knocks us on the head. It is so smart and fun.
Jim is thrilled to have Eleanor’s unique visual sensibility added to the Sensitive Chaos crew. The finished logo design is wonderfully, playfully, chaotic that winds up being about as balanced a mix of mess and order as you can get. Well, maybe more mess than order!
Look for a grand unveiling in the near future on the Sensitive Chaos web site, T-shirts, and a CD cover near you.
In the meantime, check out Eleanor’s posters and merchandise. Classy, classy. Makes you or your home look immediately better.