Sensitive Chaos Blog

Atlanta Creative Loafing, September 26, 2007 issue, Best of 2007 Awards:

Atlanta Creative Loafing’s Readers’ Poll awards Sensitive Chaos as “Best Local Electronic Act”. Critics pick in the same category was Damon “Habersham” Fonooni. This is the second win for Jim Combs of Sensitive Chaos, who also won the same category in 2005 as part of the electronic duo TouchXtone with Michael Thomas Roe.

Readers’ Poll music winners include:

Best Local Overall Music Act Dear Enemy
Best Local New Music Act Crazy Anglos
Best Local Band that Broke Up Muuhda
Best Local Vocalist Bryan Kraatz
Best Local Instrumentalist Dixie Duncan
Best Local Indie-Rock Act Snowden
Best Local Mainstream Rock Act Dear Enemy
Best Local Country Music Act Sugarland
Best Local Singer/Songwriter Kelly Love Jones
Best Local Blues Act The Breeze Kings
Best Local R&B/Soul Act Rahbi
Best Local Hip-Hop Act that’s Not Outkast T.I.
Best Mixtape DJ DJ Drama
Best Local Jazz Act Joe Gransden
Best Local Electronic Act Sensitive Chaos
Best Local Experimental Music Act Deerhunter
Best Local Folk Act Rising Appalachia
Best Local International Music Act Miguel Romero

Critics’ Poll winners include:

Timeless: Best Local Blues Act Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck
Trendy: Best Local Soul/R&B Act Rahbi
Best Local Overall Music Act Deerhunter
Best Local Band You’ve Got to See to Believe The Black Lips
Best Local Band That Broke Up Partisan
Best Local New Music Act The Coathangers
Best Vocalist Bernadette Seacrest
Best Local Instrumentalist Ike Stubblefield
Best Local Indie-Rock Act Snowden
Best Local Pop Band One Hand Loves the Other
Best Local Country Music Act No River City
Best Local Singer/Songwriter JuJu B. Solomon
Best Local Hip-hop Act That’s Not OutKast Supreeme
Best Local MixTape DJ Drama
Best Local Jazz Act The Jaspects
Best Local Electronic Act Damon “Habersham” Fonooni
Best Local Experimental Music Act Tree Creature
Best Local Folk Act Jeff Evans, AKA Chicken & Pigs
Best Local Record Producer Aldrin “DJ” Toomp

September 1, 2007

10am
V/A: - Gypsy - Caravan of Light [Lua Productions Ltd. Lua110] 2007
Padma Previ - Tesam Pahi - Divine Visions [New Earth Records NE 2710] 2007
Temple - V’taher - Coming Home [Sounds True M1153D] 2007
R. Carlos Nakai & Udi Bar-David w/ Will Clipman - Whirlwinds Dancing - Voyagers [Canyon Records CR-7078] 2007
Dean Evenson - Wind Song - Wood Over Water [Soundings of the Planet Sp-7208] 2007
Johannes Linstead and Nicholas Gunn - Morning Star - Encanto [Gemini Sun Records GSR1910] 2007
Karunesh - Earth Spirit (Bonus Track) - Global Spirit [Oreade Music TAW 60342] 2007
Tulku - paradise - Doors to Paradise [New Earth Records NE 2711] 2007

11am
John Consemulder - Believe! - Liquid Geometry [Sounds True M1150D] 2007
Evan Bartholomew - medicine-and healing - Borderlands [New Land Music 83710133500] 2007
Richard Bone - The Last Soul Of Sophia Simm - Infinite Plastic Creation [Quirkworks Laboratory Discs QRK0137] 2007
Dwight Ashley - He Let It Go - Watermelon Sugar [Nepenthe Music and Publishing AMC06010] 2007
Sensitive Chaos - Painting Earthtones In Orbit - Leak [Subsequent Records SR1001-2] 2006
Grundman, Gnomusy, Eduardo Laguillo and Joaquín Taboada Grundman - Memory Holes - eMotive [Only New Age Music / Non Profit Music NPM 0705] 2007
Thierry David - Rain On Me - Zen Pause [Real Music RM4210] 2007
Peter Kater w/ Paul McCandless, Tony Levin, Mike Hamilton and Hans Christian (w/ Kevin Locke) - Wind at Your Back - Faces of the Sun [Silver Wave Records SD 947] 2007
Levi Chen - Desired Straits - Devocean [Yin Yang Records YY 20072-4] 2007
Benjy Wertheimer & Michael Mandrell - Sneakin’ Out - Notes from Celtistan [Self Released ] 2007
Priyo - Munderavera - Gypsy Moon [Sounds True M1134D] 2007

Hey, I won an ASCAPLUS Award! For my Sensitive Chaos recorded and live work, in the Popular Music category:

WHO IS ELIGIBLE
The ASCAPLUS Awards Program is for writer members of any genre whose performances are primarily in venues not surveyed; and/or writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they would not otherwise be compensated.

(This means that performers like me who receive lots of radio airplay from Public or College Radio stations that is not surveyed via ASCAP surveys, or play in venues off the beaten path like coffee houses, planetariums, and the like.)

WHO DETERMINES AWARDS
ASCAPLUS Awards are determined annually by a panel of distinguished music experts who are neither members, nor employees of ASCAP, and are completely independent in their Award adjudication.

(In my case, Peter Filichia [theater journalist and critic of the Newark Star Ledger and the website Theatre.com], Peter Koopnows, Brian Mansfield [Nashville correspondent for USA Today and is the author of Remembering Patsy. He has penned liner notes for several albums, including titles from Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, and Conway Twitty], Melinda Newman [Melinda Newman is the West Coast bureau chief for Billboard Magazine], and Pat Prescott [radio disc jockey and co-host of the Brian McKnight Morning Show with Pat Prescott on KTWV 94.7 The Wave in Los Angeles].)

HOW AWARDS ARE DETERMINED
ASCAPLUS Awards are based on panel review of recent activity of writer applicants. Each applicant is considered on merit and in the context of all others applying. ASCAPLUS is not a contest or competition involving the critical evaluation of any specific work or works. The primary basis for panel determinations is the activity generated by each member’s catalog, with emphasis on recent performances.

(I play and record, therefore I exist.)

So, I may not receive any royalties from all my radio airplay or internet airplay, but I will get a few bucks from this award. Who’d a thunk it?

Mystic Music - KKUP 91.5 FM Cupertino, CA
Report Submittal for August 2007

1. David Helpling & Jon Jenkins - Treasure - Spotted Peccary Music
2. Craig Padilla - The Light in the Shadow - Spotted Peccary Music
3. Robert Carty and Sylken - The Endless Vista - Deep Sky Music
4. Ben Dowling - The Path Of Peace - Visionsound Innovative Arts
5. Numina - Symbiotic Spaces - Numina Music
6. John Williams (guitarist) - Classic Williams: Romance of the Guitar - Sony Classical
7. Lionel Rogg - Bach: Organ Works - Harmonia Mundi
8. Bruno Sanfilippo - Live in Barcelona (IMF): Piano Improvisation - ad21 Music
9. Richard Shulman - Light Music - RichHeart Music
10. Sync 24 - Source - Ultimae
11. Asura - Life Squared - Ultimae
12. Solar Fields - Leaving Home - Ultimae
13. Steve Roach - Immersion: Three - Projekt
14. William Edge - Kaleidoscope - Sounds Blue Music
15. Evan Bartholomew - Borderlands - New Land Music
16. Errol G. Specter - Portal
17. Hemisphere - Attachment X - Groove Unlimited
18. Constance Demby - Spirit Trance - Valley Ent.
19. Bob Keck - Mystic Reality
20. Sensitive Chaos - Leak - Subsequent Records

Comments: also played:
Latry - Vierne works - BNL
Robert Rich - Music from Atlas Dei; Seven Veils
various - Albedo - Ultimae
Bob Holroyd - Hollow Man
Robert Carty - Spectrums
Tina Malia - The Silent Awakening; Etc.