Discography
Posted: November 21st, 2009 | Author: John Keston
Artist: Ostracon (John Keston and Graham O’Brien)
Title: Unauthorized Modifications
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
On this debut album from the duo, Ostracon, John Keston uses custom sequencing software to convert video signals into a stream of generative melodic structures. During their performances and recording sessions Keston captures, layers, loops, arranges and processes these phrases building spontaneous compositions. Graham O’Brien accompanies these angular, electronic structures, with dynamic drumming that flirts with the underworld. O’Brien’s percussive statements firmly place the compositions into a non-linear landscape, grounded in a familiar yet impossible to categorize igneous crust.
Title: Unauthorized Modifications
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
On this debut album from the duo, Ostracon, John Keston uses custom sequencing software to convert video signals into a stream of generative melodic structures. During their performances and recording sessions Keston captures, layers, loops, arranges and processes these phrases building spontaneous compositions. Graham O’Brien accompanies these angular, electronic structures, with dynamic drumming that flirts with the underworld. O’Brien’s percussive statements firmly place the compositions into a non-linear landscape, grounded in a familiar yet impossible to categorize igneous crust.
Artist: Ostraka (John Keston)
Title: Precambrian Resonance
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
John Keston’s debut solo work emerged after eleven months of capturing random recordings and sound design experiments exhibited on audiocoobook.org. This led Keston in a new musical direction, harnessing the chaotic behaviors of natural sound recordings and digital processing into musical forms.
Title: Precambrian Resonance
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009
John Keston’s debut solo work emerged after eleven months of capturing random recordings and sound design experiments exhibited on audiocoobook.org. This led Keston in a new musical direction, harnessing the chaotic behaviors of natural sound recordings and digital processing into musical forms.
Artist: Keston and Westdal
Title: One Day to Save All Life
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This is the third album produced by Keston and Westdal. “Every now and then, an act releases an album changing the way we listen to music. In my world, this album is one of them.” – CalmScape.com. SlacklineRadio.com calls it, “…the kind of stuff that will have a high value for travelers on future long voyages to Mars.”
Title: One Day to Save All Life
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This is the third album produced by Keston and Westdal. “Every now and then, an act releases an album changing the way we listen to music. In my world, this album is one of them.” – CalmScape.com. SlacklineRadio.com calls it, “…the kind of stuff that will have a high value for travelers on future long voyages to Mars.”
Artist: Keston and Westdal
Title: Truth is Stranger
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Keston and Westdal’s second full-length title on Unearthed Music features collaborations with Steven Ekoka, Estaire Godinez, Desdamona. The release has thirteen tracks including the recently produced bonus track, El Amanecer.
Title: Truth is Stranger
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Keston and Westdal’s second full-length title on Unearthed Music features collaborations with Steven Ekoka, Estaire Godinez, Desdamona. The release has thirteen tracks including the recently produced bonus track, El Amanecer.
Artist: Keston and Westdal
Title: Super Structure Baby
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Originally released on Coup de Grace, New York, NY, this reissue includes the bonus track (Kinon’s Path f. Rajiah Johnson). “…these guys lay down highly polished sounds over intelligent morphing drums. [Super Structure] Baby is a thoroughly impressive outing, full of class and sophistication…” – Patrick Drexler, URB Magazine
Title: Super Structure Baby
Label: Unearthed Music
Release Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Originally released on Coup de Grace, New York, NY, this reissue includes the bonus track (Kinon’s Path f. Rajiah Johnson). “…these guys lay down highly polished sounds over intelligent morphing drums. [Super Structure] Baby is a thoroughly impressive outing, full of class and sophistication…” – Patrick Drexler, URB Magazine
Artist: Casino Royale
Title: Mad Props to the Universe (OOP)
Label: Groove Garden Records
Release Date: 1999
“Minneapolis based Casino Royale came up with an enjoyable and varied set of original funky grooves for their Mad Props To The Universe album. Every cut features John Keston skilfully utilizing all sorts of vintage keyboards to great effect, including plenty of electric piano. In the following clips he uses a Wurlitzer for the solo on Intro To Elmar(1), while the Rhodes is chosen to create the atmospheric opening to Sustainiac(2).” – Cool Keys
Title: Mad Props to the Universe (OOP)
Label: Groove Garden Records
Release Date: 1999
“Minneapolis based Casino Royale came up with an enjoyable and varied set of original funky grooves for their Mad Props To The Universe album. Every cut features John Keston skilfully utilizing all sorts of vintage keyboards to great effect, including plenty of electric piano. In the following clips he uses a Wurlitzer for the solo on Intro To Elmar(1), while the Rhodes is chosen to create the atmospheric opening to Sustainiac(2).” – Cool Keys
Artist: Casino Royale
Title: Hank Mobley’s Sound of Love (OOP)
Label: Anal Log Records
Release Date: 1996
Erik Fratzke (Bass), Erik Bolen (Drums), John Keston (Rhodes), Henry Weinbeck (Trumpet), Camron Wittig (Cover Photo), Steve Kaul (Engineer), Steve Kaul and John Keston (Mixing), Featuring Slug from Atmosphere on Pea King
Title: Hank Mobley’s Sound of Love (OOP)
Label: Anal Log Records
Release Date: 1996
Erik Fratzke (Bass), Erik Bolen (Drums), John Keston (Rhodes), Henry Weinbeck (Trumpet), Camron Wittig (Cover Photo), Steve Kaul (Engineer), Steve Kaul and John Keston (Mixing), Featuring Slug from Atmosphere on Pea King