Laughable Recordings

Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com Laughable Recordings Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:51:19 +0000 https://laughablerecordings.com en Front page https://laughablerecordings.com/Front-page Fri, 04 Jan 2019 20:25:18 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Front-page Introductory Information https://laughablerecordings.com/Introductory-Information Fri, 04 Jan 2019 20:25:18 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Introductory-Information LAUGHABLE RECORDINGS  Wow, here we are in the web.  Screened off to the world.  Consider this celestial image.  How might we represent ourselves now?  Look at that sun rise into those clouds!  The sun rises above the clouds.  The pink fortune lifts and dissipates. The fog hesitates at the mouth of the river rolling out to meet the sea - it turns gold and returns to heaven.  Tina runs with all she has - diving into and swimming against the current.  I stand here laughing because I love to laugh.   On this website there is some information - thank you for coming to this website.   for information about PERFORMANCES for information about RELEASES for information about FOR HIRE for information about CONTACT for information about ABOUT Contact Information https://laughablerecordings.com/Contact-Information Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:45:09 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Contact-Information CONTACTColby Nathan laughablerecordings@gmail.com shoot me an email if ya wanna join the Laughable email list about regional shows and releasesor you can call me if you know the number C. Nathan Information https://laughablerecordings.com/C-Nathan-Information Fri, 04 Jan 2019 23:44:29 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/C-Nathan-Information  Good Morning  <img width="576" height="714" width_o="576" height_o="714" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b67d270e992207db305ad73596d38148ea5f5a3ac3d0359b015bb71651c3fa8e/Colby-ana-Tina_818_006.jpg" data-mid="45802068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/576/i/b67d270e992207db305ad73596d38148ea5f5a3ac3d0359b015bb71651c3fa8e/Colby-ana-Tina_818_006.jpg" />photo by Alex Nelsonfeaturing performances at: the Apohadion Theater, Portland, ME / Outwardbound mix tape session at RBC, Dallas, TX / Dream Away Lodge, Beckett, MA / Lyric Hall Theater, New Haven, CT / Columbus Theater, Providence, RI / Quinn’s, Beacon, NY / Fleetwoods, Asheville, NC / Dorchester Art Project, Boston, MA / Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Burlington, VT / and beaches Willard and Parsons My name is Colby Nathan.  I grew up here in Southern Maine, and I live here still.  I’ve bounced around, but I love it here. I perform in many outfits.  I feel that collaboration exercises development, diversity emboldens growth, and experience is understanding.  Music has been my easiest access point to  pursue these values/practices.  It’s also a lot of fun - to play.  I’ve given in to it.  It never gets boring.   It’s the only thing that I truly live for beside my pup, cold ocean dips, and icecream.  And love for family and friends.  I play different roles in all these bands, but I can also be spotted rolling solo (me and Tina, that is).  I certainly admire uncompromising lifers, and aspire to be one. Laughable Recordings celebrated ten years last summer with a final barn show where it rained inside.   Perhaps essentially a vanity label, though I’ve done small releases for folks I admire over the years. Less and less as finances have been demanded by other arenas of life, but they still happen now and then.  All of the releases are collaborative and personal.  Not sure what kinda label this is supposed to be - I originally thought it could be some sorta dumping grounds.  Is what it is.   New recordings are coming soon from many of the following bands. Shows are being played... where? Here are my main collaborations (click the names for links):  Dimples comatose pop duo with Greg Hartunian operating in flux out of Southern Maine and Southern California. Greg owns and operates an impressively vibey recording studio in Glendale, CA called Tropico BeautyClay Camero and the County Line Banditspsychedelic country stylings from frontwoman Clay Camero (formerly Caethua, Ancestral Diet, Sports, etc.) featuring a fine cast of collaborative friends.  (New England) Patriots freaky post post punk trio featuring two friends that I’ve been playing music with since I was fourteen.  DK and Fool Diddly have been playing together since they were toddlers.Tom K. & C. Nathan duoTom Kovacevic and I elaborate on each other’s songs.  Link is to Tom’s music that I had nothing to do with recording, but admire greatly.   hack and pray construction. Greg Jamie bandmoody space folk that I recorded for my buddy Greg.   you can often find me sharing bills and guesting with some of my heros like:Big Blood + Video Nasties  and from afar, the excellent Ralph White Many thanks to Feeding Tube Records, Nicey Music, Dontrustheruin, 100% Breakfast for helping release my friends and my music.  Thank you to the Maine Arts Commission for awarding me the Resilience Artist Grant in the spring of 2021 to help continue to make improvements to the Laughable Recordings in-house studio despite the financial challenges as a musician/engineer due to 2020 pandemic.   <img width="206" height="100" width_o="206" height_o="100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ce9a356fce397c824080f639ac7f5fa215db21c6f989b7580866b5cfe65bdad/maine-arts-logo-small.png" data-mid="112804881" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/206/i/4ce9a356fce397c824080f639ac7f5fa215db21c6f989b7580866b5cfe65bdad/maine-arts-logo-small.png" /> campfire https://laughablerecordings.com/campfire Wed, 17 Jul 2024 03:51:19 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/campfire <img width="4950" height="3000" width_o="4950" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b7201d49f95d320a5717680be15bf77ae6d4b573f1d606125b4c13bfbf190b8/Campfire-colby-for-hire.jpg" data-mid="214796094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b7201d49f95d320a5717680be15bf77ae6d4b573f1d606125b4c13bfbf190b8/Campfire-colby-for-hire.jpg" /> Soul Chateau OUT NOW https://laughablerecordings.com/Soul-Chateau-OUT-NOW Fri, 03 Jun 2022 02:12:41 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Soul-Chateau-OUT-NOW <img width="1822" height="1690" width_o="1822" height_o="1690" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a1563e0190cb41de79261e030a3fa5ac87f37147fdde6562781073909951ead/DimplesSpring2022.jpg" data-mid="144409912" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a1563e0190cb41de79261e030a3fa5ac87f37147fdde6562781073909951ead/DimplesSpring2022.jpg" /> D I M P L E S’ SOUL CHATEAU   out now! <img width="7650" height="7650" width_o="7650" height_o="7650" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f85e67116ef33ec16c46db18cc84a512264aa2199d46cc682e92cd5fec5d701/SOUL-CHATEAU-cs-front-NEW.jpg" data-mid="144410325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f85e67116ef33ec16c46db18cc84a512264aa2199d46cc682e92cd5fec5d701/SOUL-CHATEAU-cs-front-NEW.jpg" /> “No shortage of dune buggy up the canyon honey slide action here. The first tinges of sonic solvent action provide a loosened effect, but just as the tongue gets lazy, the swagger is spat gently from the tip as clarity bursts into the room with the urgency a hungry baby.Delicate without feeling soft. Brash without feeling harsh and at times Dimples’ swing fucking hard, like JJ and Leon without forcing it one bit.But if you don’t like “new music” this might not be your cuppa. ‘Soul Chateau,’ isn’t an updated prettied up throwback, it’s all here and now, in the present time’s glory, gore, majestic beauty, and glimmering perpetual urgency. Co-written, equally played, produced, and recorded by Greg Hartunian and Colby Nathan, Dimples is a truly collaborative project. After much of the album was tracked, Greg was involved in a near fatal car accident, rear ended in the right lane on California’s treacherous Highway 5. This left Greg, normally an extremely active worker, in a back brace, and in chronic pain. A majority of the song sculpting was done while Greg was recovering. References to mortality, albeit not heavy handed, join the album’s themes. Trialed seeds of brotherly music making; communion, collaboration and dedication. Forms of renewal through sonic therapy.Extracting the nuggets from their extended duo jams, Dimples’ shape these improvisations into luminous, hooky psychedelic electro camp fire sing alongs, with the occasional guest spot from New England familiar shredders like Big Blood, Tom Kovacevic, and Keith Waters. “There’s no waste, only composition. There’s no time, only transition.”Melding the dry Mediterranean subtropical climate of Glendale, California with the humid and sometimes frigid Continental climate of Maine, Greg and Colby work the magic, wether its in the Tropico Beauty studio of the San Fernando Valley, or South Portland’s Laughable Recordings home studio.Topping off the listening experience is the incredible album artwork featuring a series of oil paintings by Salvador Charlí, Hartunian’s alter ego with a paintbrush.  The paintings depict the colorful and surreal inner workings of the world where the “Soul Chateau” stands tall on the hill.Through the spontaneity of improv and the deliberate and dedicated practice of song writing, what results is a diverse bouquet of carefully gathered fragrant blooms.” – Dan Beckman-Moon CO-RELEASED by Laughable Recordings and Feeding Tube Records ORDER YOUR COPY HERE <img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1" style="width: 1px; height: 1px;" b8rrhuxvv="">                          Soul Chateau by Dimples' <img width="2341" height="2371" width_o="2341" height_o="2371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/80fd327ec2175ab1a39af61a645d5f49949609f121f3120228856f0216866cdf/DimplesSpring2022-6.jpg" data-mid="144409909" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/80fd327ec2175ab1a39af61a645d5f49949609f121f3120228856f0216866cdf/DimplesSpring2022-6.jpg" /><img width="2865" height="2865" width_o="2865" height_o="2865" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e5e5f01f4848e67c8f64c40401798375d02e3ba40c39677edea96960fea079b2/IMG_9612.jpg" data-mid="144409914" border="0" data-scale="48" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e5e5f01f4848e67c8f64c40401798375d02e3ba40c39677edea96960fea079b2/IMG_9612.jpg" /> Spring tour 2023 copy https://laughablerecordings.com/Spring-tour-2023-copy Wed, 15 Mar 2023 10:44:29 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Spring-tour-2023-copy <img width="2640" height="2640" width_o="2640" height_o="2640" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e3a8e8ba6b465c041cfcd994e643d167b70daa8cf202b34bd6c6f64c1c3b127a/Parts-of-Endless-spring-2023-tour.jpg" data-mid="171729283" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e3a8e8ba6b465c041cfcd994e643d167b70daa8cf202b34bd6c6f64c1c3b127a/Parts-of-Endless-spring-2023-tour.jpg" />email laughablerecordings@gmail.com for more info about these low key good timesSupport for updates to equipment for "Apart of Endless" is provided by the American Rescue Plan Maine Project Grants, a subgrantingprogram administered by SPACE Gallery for the National Endowment for the Arts. Spring tour 2022 https://laughablerecordings.com/Spring-tour-2022 Sun, 27 Mar 2022 23:42:37 +0000 Laughable Recordings https://laughablerecordings.com/Spring-tour-2022 <img width="4779" height="4844" width_o="4779" height_o="4844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/629bb7343017c6fa6a56d4c7f7cf44376866d24cacbfc622659d76155643679d/Colby-spring-2022-flier-smaller.jpg" data-mid="137738164" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/629bb7343017c6fa6a56d4c7f7cf44376866d24cacbfc622659d76155643679d/Colby-spring-2022-flier-smaller.jpg" />email laughablerecordings@gmail.com for more info about these low key good times