A Recent Nod from Star's End

In early 2010, we released the final installment from the duo Mahoney & Peck A Life Incandescent and received some note worthy attention. Recently, we were made aware that it also was picked by Star's End as a significant release of 2010. Here is the link to view the entire list, and a special thank you to SE host Chuck van Zyl for his support on the album as his artwork graces the cover, and to Art Cohen that assisted in engineering this album.

Best of City Skies

Last Saturday, Dec. 04, 2010, Stillstream.com played the "Best Of" performances from the 2008-2010 City Skies performances. Below is the entire playlist which featured performance clips from M. Peck and Mark Mahoney. Thanks to Jim Combes for curating this and to the fine folks at Stillstream.com for their support.

Hour 1

Intro
1. John Vorus (07/10/10)
2. Paul Vnuk Jr (05/02/08)
3. Klimchak (10/10/09)
4. Suicide Lane (12/05/09)
5. Zachary Hollback (10/10/09)
6. tay0 (08/08/09)
7. Caspella (04/11/09)

Hour 2
Intro
1. R_Garcia (12/05/09)
2. Radical Geometry (09/11/10)
3. Killer Haven (05/01/10)
4. M. Peck (11/07/09)
5. dRachEmUsiK (05/01/10)
6. Mark Mahoney (05/02/08)
7. Fader Vixen (09/11/10)
8. reklein (04/11/09)

Hour 3
Intro
1. Richard Lainhart (05/09/09)
2. Sensitive Chaos (09/11/10)
3. Broken Symmetry (05/07/09)
4. Monomania (03/13/10)
5. Tutu Tango (06/12/10)
6. citizenGreen (07/10/10)
Outro

Hour 4
Intro
1. Tony Gerber (04/30/10)
2. Andrew Weathers (05/09/09)
3. Phylum Sinter (07/10/10)
4. Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel (10/04/08)
5. Harold Timms (04/29/10)
6. 84001 (11/7/09)
Outro
7. Paul Vnuk Jr (05/02/08)

Kuwahara's HoneyCult Reviewed by Zzaj

"Kuwahara - HONEYCULT: Some splendid indie music in from one of the "founders" of the home-taping underground, Mike Honeycutt. If you've never heard bees swarming, you may not relate well to this sonic assault... with headphones on, you'll believe you've been caught on the inside of the hive, & that you'll never be able to get back to "normal" (whatever that is, heh! heh!). This is synth-driven, and it's one of the most excellent excursions I've been on lately - while there are a few invasive moments, this is unusually harmonic and totally perceptive of what will drive you up the proverbial wall, but let you down gently enough to escape without commitment to the "D" ward. There wasn't a lot of information available on the web, though you can find the tracklist here... Mike is joined by M. Peck, and they've created a wealth of sonic adventures that any active listener will find irresistible... some of this stuff takes you right out to the very EDGE of the universe, and doesn't necessarily bring you back (or at least not in one piece). One of the most intriguing compositions was "Whose Children Are We?", with blunt-trauma sonic hammers ready to blow you ALL THE WAY AWAY... the other piece I just loved (my favorite track, without doubt) was the swirling opener, "A Basket For Elliot"... just beautiful! I'm impressed, and you will be, too... I give this aural adventure a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an "EQ" (energy quotient) rating of 4.98."


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Sneak Peek

By month's end the next installment from KUWAHARA and first in the Cultivation Series will be available. More to come...

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Mahoney and Peck's A.L.I. makes Secret Music's Top 20

1. Mark Mahoney and Michael Peck - A Life Incandescent - Waiting World Records
2. Andrew Lahiff - Shapes In Clouds - Self Released
3. Matthew Schoening - Elements - Self Released
4. Arcane - The Shelter - Musiczeit
5. Mark Shreeve - Zoom - Musiczeit
6. Redshift - Wild - Musiczeit
7. Gregg Plummer - Remember This Place - Self Released
8. Andy McKee - Joyland - Razor & Tie
9. Guitar Republic - Guitar Republic - Candy Rat
10. Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More - Type
11. The Tangent Project - Live on Star's End 12.06.09 - none
12. Jonn Serrie - Thousand Star - New World Music
13. ['ramp] - debris - Doombient
14. Harold Budd & Clive Wright - Little Windows - Darla
15. Jozef Van Wissem - Stations Of The Cross - Incunabulum
16. Goldmund - The Malady Of Elegance - Type
17. Marconi Union - Tokyo - Bine Music
18. Stephen Parsick - Cambrium - Doombient
19. Dirk Serries - Microphonics I-V - Tonefloat
20. Paul Adams - Heavens - Lakefront

Kuwahara-Honeycult Reviewed by Sleeping Shaman Webzine

Sleeping Shaman webzine recently gave HoneyCult a fabulous review:


"The sound-world of Kuwahara, a duo consisting of M.Peck and Mike Honeycutt, is one of grainy kaleidoscopic twilight murk shot through with fractured transmissions from some alien transmitter device. Dull bathyscaphic pulses shudder across arcing, shimmering feedback that subsides into eerie field recordings from some location that may or may not exist. Kuwahara have soundtracked the fall down the rabbit-hole, and it is terrifying."

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