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2.22.09 Take this to your leader: Still Inertia is helping spread the word and sell the latest CD by Phil Barker's (original member of the Ohio band "Flat Bush") entitled "Take Me To Your Leader", Still Inertia (published through CRC Music) appears in a very early (we're talking circa 1996-ish) guest piano performance in one song entitled "Space Stripper". How can you check this album out? Well, if you missed out on the live show in June 2007, CRC Music is the place to order it from. The cost is $12 (plus 2-3 USPS Priority shipping charges). Again, CRC Music is not the publisher of this CD, but is merely helping connect orders from people to Phil Barker's music via the Internet. The album is published by Green Fiddler Publishing (BMI). Still Inertia is simply happy to help spread the word of globally local talent. CLICK HERE to go directly to the ordering page. CDs are $12 (plus shipping). 1.10.09Things change and time passes. Still Inertia is letting the passage of time slowly re-shape and continue to mold these pieces into some finality of the upcoming 3rd album "Invested" (presumably in 2009)! There has been a new instrument introduced into the strudio. A KP3 Kaoss Pad by Korg and some fine tuning post recording work needs to be done through this year... not to mention copyright legalities and packaging. Jason Kraley (the man behind Still Inertia) still personally invites you INTO the CRC Music Studio to find out how you can help - and to give you a special opportunity to hear 5 songs that have been created since the beginning of this "Invested" album project (some tracks will be on the album).... just to give you a glimpse of how much time, effort and emotion has been invested into the ultimate goal: The first professionally national duplication, publication and release of the album in 2009. For more information, click here.8.25.08 A message from Jason Kraley, the man behind Still Inertia. Now he reveals what is behind his face: "I have been absent online for quite some time. I now have more titanium in me, no one would really know it if they saw me, hell: it barely wants to be visible in an xray, but I can feel it and if you look real close, the multiple titanium plate fragments show themselfs only where the open holes and screw bolts are in the plates. One could say I'm the new 50 million dollar Jason Kraley... but it wasn't that much. Sadly, it is non-ferrous, which means it won't conduct electricity, it iwll not expand or contract from heat, and, sadly, it is not magnetic: So I can't do stupid party tricks like people making poems with those silly refrigerator magnets with words and letters... I'm on the mend, doing many things, including working with the lovely government, which actually is now working with me and soon... in the near future... I will be releasing my 3-year album in the works... professionally. Professionally printed, packaged, UPC coded, and maybe, just maybe, in a crappy store near you! Thank you all for your emails, cards, and gifts! Cheers." 2.22.08Yes, Still Inertia has constantly been pushing forward with the now over-3-year ongoing album recording of "Invested". Slated realistically for its professionally pressed, printed, and duplicated sometime in the summer or fall of 2008.So check this out: Still Inertia had the pleasure of having HIVEWERM ESCHATON ( www.myspace.com/kroe ) drop by the studio and graciously laid out some tracks. Here's the interesting twist to the continually twisting "Invested" project: Hivewerm, originally from the UK, is a talented and promisingly upcoming electronic rapper and experimentalist (think Massive Attack meets The Orb, with a touch of Trick and Jack Dangers' dub work). This week, we focussed on a song that honestly was going to be trashed from the album list until Hivewerm gave it new life! The song is called "Glass People" and will mark the first Still Inertia song with a guest rapper, whose inherent accent has given this song a completely new feeling and deeper meaning. Embroiled in the insanity of several other projects, Jason Kraley (the brain stem of Still Inertia) will be working on reassembling and working with all the fresh (and raw) material Hivewerm blessed this song with... over the next several weeks. So, to sum up, Hivewerm Eschaton joins the ever-growing collective of guest musicians making this album happen: The Philharmonia Orchestrations of England, Gooding, Roto Visage (and Jason Popejoy), Elaine Diflavis (from former Philadelphia's "The Side-Effects"), Toshio Mana (from project::in•fin•i•ty), Shwag McGinty, Amanda North, Mike Williams, Courtney Smith, Keith Royer and artwork from The Red Rabbit! Would you like to help make this speed this album up to see the light of day, quite possibly in a local store near you? Anything is appreciated... so I invite you to come into my studio and chill, spread the word and thank you for your patience. 10.20.07Apologies are in order: There were some server problems and therefore this site, including the online purchasing has been down for almost 2 weeks. The site should be slowly updating itself and putting itself back together. Thank you to our amazing system administrator for helping get all for sites back on the road (who shall remain anonymous in his super-hero status)!.The four sites affected by the downtime were: www.jasonkraley.com www.stillinertia.com www.crc-music.com www.kraleyproductions.com Any purchase delays or invonvenience will have a special limited addition piece of Still Inertia called "Lost Treasures (Volume 1)" if any orders are made in the next week. Thank you for your patience. 7.9.07 NOW RELEASED FOR FREE DOWNLOAD: "The Reconstitution Of Roto Visage". Eleven artists came together to reinterpret, reinvent, and reconstitute the work of Roto Visage. Featuring remixes by: I.V.Lab, Pocka, Ahasverus, Conversations About The Light; Defractory, Calyx After This, Retro, Still Inertia, Worms Of The Earth, Anything In Wire, Nostalgia. Still Inertia played its hand in creating a re-version sonata of the song called "Smudge" by Roto Visage off their album - "La Muse Cachée". Still Inertia spent several hard days creating a 7:32 version called "Smudged." I hope you all enjoy in the infinite vastness of musical appreciation, artistic deviation and expressionism that Roto Visage gave all us musicians such a great honor to explore... This album guest appearance for Still Inertia has been added to Still Inertia's Discography. Click here for more information on the song line up, how to download individual songs or even the entire album online... for free courtesy of Kaos ex Machina netlabel. Enjoy! 5.11.07 Jason Kraley (the man behind Still Inertia) has just been editorially recognized as the featured multi-media artist for the Spring 2007 issue of The Ashe Journal: an explorationally spiritual/artistic publication which provides a FREE DOWNLOADABLE issue in PDF format, or you can purchase a full color hardcopy to be delivered to your home. Jason Kraley, the man behind Still Inertia, was asked to do the front and back covers as well as write an essay about his life up to this point. Amazingly, nothing censored. So have fun, read about Jason Kraley (and how his art and music of Still Inertia came into existence) and support "The Ashe Journal" and Still Inertia by buying a hardcopy of this issue, if you dare... MUCH THANKS TO SVEN DAVISSON! Spread the word and thank you for your support! And that kind of support helps all of us artists, eh? 4.22.07Thank you to all those who stopped by to see the first public showing of Still Inertia's "Closer To Me" video. For those of you asking when the album is coming out, that is still actually up in the air, but is slated for this year. Check The Music section for continual updates on the status of the album.10.20.06"CLOSER TO ME" (THE NEW VIDEO & SONG) Of these many songs in the progress for the upcoming album, INVESTED, there are a few that have been complete and awaiting their final placement on the album itself. One song is called "Closer To Me" and is pre-released with its very own video! Kraley Productions has been diligently working on this video for the past 3 weeks and is now the first video converted to be viewable online. October 7, 2006 was the official release date of the second music video ever for Still Inertia. It is an exclusively first new music video for a song called "Closer To Me" which is promoting the forthcoming third album entitled "Invested." Using footage spanning over 2 years in Cleveland, Ohio, the final lyrical pieces were shot in a day in Philadelphia, PA. Massive amounts of footage taken in Philadelphia were crunched down during pre-production to workable time-elapsed footage. This video explores the rather ever-changing emotional and mental health of someone who needs to get closer toward their own "within" before they are too far gone. It also demonstrates the continually evolving exploration of the creative boundaries of Still Inertia from its previous years. This, of course, combined with the other song "Eileen" only gives you a taste of what is to come on this third album, 2 years in the making. The DVD features the full quality version (29.97 frames per second) as opposed to the 15 fps smaller/compressed version in QuickTime format for viewing across the Internet. Fully edited on Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD and finalized with complete menu design and integration on DVD Studio Pro 3. Total editing time: 3 weeks. For those of you who have been (im)patiently curious about what's happening with the forthcoming album, perhaps hearing this new song and seeing quite a refreshing look at Still Inertia (and the mentally insane brain behind all the musical cacophony) will satiate and intrigue you enough to understand why there is so much heart and soul (and time) being meticulously built into this album's completion. TO LISTEN TO THE NEW SONG:  Written & Produced by J. Kraley Additional Drumwork: Roto Visage Vocals, Lyrics, Music: J. Kraley VIDEO AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ONLINE: (QuickTime, 19.1Mb) VIDEO AVAILABLE ON DVD: (More details...) Check back for more updated information...  ...At the moment, 12 songs are in the works for the forthcoming album. There will be an unusually unique blend of vocal tracks as well as instrumentals this time around; all guided by Jason Kraley's somewhat frenetic experiences and adjustments (or misalignments) of relocating to Philadelphia. Joining the rotation of existing contributors already including Shwag McGinty, Gooding, Amanda North, and Mike Williams, Still Inertia is warmly welcoming the assistance of guest technicians, musicians, and lyrical writers from across the country including Roto Visage, Elaine Diflavis (from former Philadelphia's "The Side-Effects"), Toshio Mana (from project::in•fin•i•ty), and Courtney Smith... and the list of guest talent is growing as of this moment. The new album, entitled "Invested", also carries with it tremendous support, guidance and voluntary technical assistance from Jason Popejoy, Stephen Keever, Alex Vega, Zack Berman, John Rowland, Keith Royer and last, but very not least, Still Inertia is honored to have the most distinct pleasure of having the Red Rabbit himself go out on a wonderous limb and created a custom made painting and artwork for the design of the upcoming album cover. His vision will appropriately serve as its embodiment of the most mentally dynamic range of emotional wreckage and beauty in audible form Still Inertia has ever composed to date. "Invested" is sure to bring more than one unpleasantly pleasant surprise to your ears. Yes, there will be some very real drums, electric and acoustic guitars in this upcoming session of headache and mental deconstruction made audibly flesh... the introductory use of an actual Steinway Grand Piano and a turntable "ta boot." Stay tuned for more updates as the evolution continues... 6.21.05For the first time ever, all the individual master tracks of a song ("What You See") by Still Inertia has been handed over to the trusted hands of Shwag McGinty (a.k.a. Shwag Entertainment) to see what he'd do to the song... a remix or a new version? Right now, who knows? Check back later this summer when the "What You See" CD single will be released to hear the results, along with other new Still Inertia tunes. Oh, yes. Yes, let's...4.12.05"From The Ancient Center"Total time: 45 minutes - Price: $10 US + Shipping  "From The Ancient Center" is the new album from Still Inertia which serves as the musical companion to an art exhibition installed April 7, 2005, by native Cleveland artist, Christine Siarka, entitled "From The Ancient Center: Mandala Drawings and Metal Sculptures". Christine translates her own personal, contemporary versions of mandalas from the traditional Tibetan concepts into amazing metal sculptures of mandalas. Still Inertia was commissioned to create music specifically for this exhibit and its installation. Working in the studio with Mike Williams (of MadNote Productions) and Amanda North, this is the first time Still Inertia created an album that concentrates on the human experience during meditation. With such intentions, it is with great hope that the listener becomes aware of the moment in time they create each time this album is played in its entirety; a moment when nature and technology exist harmoniously... Fretless bass guitars, Siren-like vocal textures, rich layers of tribal rhythms, tints of pianos, humpback whales, a chinese gong, and even a turntable are all carefully and vividly woven together to create "From The Ancient Center". With meticulous continuity clocking in at 45 minutes, this album exhibits 4 songs (or movements) specifically created for the walking meditation engaged during the exhibition's opening night. The evening was a wonderful success and experience, and the CD was pre-released to those who attended that night. The positive consensus from the participants in the walking meditation was: "I've never heard music like this before." Curious? Trust your ears: "Cetus (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.2M) "You Shed Light In Me (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.2M) "Vessels (excerpt)" Listen (MP3, 1.3M) The music was a permanent installation of the exhibit and will continue to encourage the interaction of visitors, connecting the visual art with the music, to create an ever-evolving rock mandala in the center of the room. Photos and video captured its growth and will be released online in the very near future in The Memory section of www.jasonkraley.com. Visit The Goods to purchase this CD. Visit The Discography for track listing and details. 4.5.05 3.7.05Still Inertia has stormed the studio while having the most pleasant honor and privilege of having Ms. Amanda North (and her beautiful siren-like voice) as well as Mr. Mike Williams (and his voice-of-god fretless bass guitar) involved with the latest EP project.2.7.05Oops, we all make mistakes. Apparently the new song "What You See" wasn't uploaded into this website's directory. Please try checking it out now for proper listening enjoyment. You can download it at the bottom of this page (or any of the pages currently throughout this site.)Also on the horizon is a request for a movement to be written and performed for an art installation and meditation experience involving local artist Christine Siarka and her featured interactive mandalas in April 2005. Check back for more information. 12.23.04Still Inertia has been on a continual momentum, until the recent need of Tascam burner repair, but that will all be fixed in the coming weeks. In the meantime, October marked the final song "Off-Season" made for the "Upgrade" CD. It went on sale November.Meanwhile, in song news, the latest track to be converted over to the Internet for your listening pleasures (which also appears on "Upgrade") is "What You See" which features Joe Minadeo's signature sound and accomplished rhythmical perfections. Lyrics, vocals, more sound, sequencing of the loops provided by Joe were completed by J. Kraley - with thanks to Gooding for his drumwork. A CD single with some B-side tracks and a different version (or two) of "What You See" will be released summer 2005. Until then, please enjoy the album version: |  |
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