June 4th
12:58 AM

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SUMMER TOUR FOR SO MUCH LIGHT

July 5 Sacramento, CA-Luigis
July 6 Fresno, CA-The Ranch
July 7 Bakersfield, CA-Brie’s Backhouse
July 8 Las Vegas, NV-Layla’s Garden
July 9 Cedar City, UT-Off the Cuff
July 10 Salt Lake City, UT- The Underground
July 12 Seattle, WA-El Corazon w/ Just Like Vinyl
July 13 Portland, OR- The Firkin Tavern
July 14 Eugene, OR-The Gathering Place
July 16 TBA
July 17 Santa Cruz, CA- Deli Licious
July 18 San Francisco, CA-Submission Gallery

Here it is! Can’t wait to get on the road with my buddies in Hail the Sun and First Place Science Project (Cory Lockwood of A Lot Like Birds)

If you can help out with a place to stay for any of these shows, please let me know! I’d love to have a slumber party with some new friends.

Stay tuned for album news VERY soon.

June 3rd
2:57 AM

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So Much Light’s debut LP is almost finished!

Tomorrow is the last day of mixing for “Supine/Spellbound”, the debut album for my project So Much Light.

Check out the personnel list:

Damien Verrett – Guitar, Vocals, Rhodes, Vibraphone, Bells, Programming

Jesse Kranzler – Arrangements, Programming

Michael Littlefield – Bass

Joseph Arrington - Drums

Alison Sharkey - Cello

Reylynn Goessling - Violin

Kristin Arnold - Violin

Michael Frost – Viola

Aleks Karjaka - Clarinet

Michael McCoy – Flute

Frank Cohen – Trombone

Evan Ferro, Jordan Seavers, Mike Sparks and Lucas Ulrici – Backing vocals

Produced by Robert Cheek and Damien Verrett

Mixed and Engineered by Robert Cheek

May 14th
2:27 AM

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Last Friday I played my second solo show ever as So Much Light. Thankfully, my friend Sarah was on hand to catch the whole performance on video!

Here’s a youtube playlist of my set. Stay tuned, the debut LP will be finished sometime in June and I’ll be announcing my West Coast tour dates shortly!

May 2nd
2:57 AM

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Source

Via

thespeedofsoundinseawater:

http://thespeedofsoundinseawater.bigcartel.com/product/yellow-version-ep

Here it is! The first ever physical release of Blue Version and the second pressing of Red Version, combined in one irresistible package!

YELLOW VERSION

With this re-release our entire discography is now available from our merch store! The first shipment leaves by the end of the week! Place your orders!

At last! Blue Version has made it onto a CD.

It’s weird to me just how long ago Fernando and I wrote and recorded Blue Version and how far we’ve come since then. We were some weird high school kids. Now we’re weird college men.

TSOSIS will never die.

April 24th
2:13 PM

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Here’s a short clip I made for my computer animation class. The assignment was to sync audio to motion. I got carried away and this is what happened. Hopefully I’ll finish this thing and have a music video for Mansion Closets, even though this looks like it should be the video for Hot and Bothered. WHATEVER

3:04 AM

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Alright everybody, So Much Light is going on a West Coast tour this summer in support of my debut album. I need YOUR help to get these dates booked!

July 5 Sacramento, CA
July 6 Bakersfield, CA
July 7 San Diego, CA
July 8 Las Vegas, NV
July 9 St. George, UT
July 10 Salt Lake City, UT
July 11 Boise, ID
July 13 Seattle, OR
July 14 Portland, OR
July 15 Grants Pass, OR
July 16 Chico, CA
July 17 San Francisco, CA

If you know any bands, venues, pizza places or cool people in ANY of these areas PLEASE inform me.

Feel free to shoot me an email at jonasmurdock@gmail.com

ANY help is greatly appreciated. I can’t wait to come see some of you guys this July.

April 20th
4:42 AM

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a message from Anonymous

Do u write any of ur songs about girls? Cause some of em seem pretty personal. Bog fan!

All of my songs are about girls. Everything I do is about girls.

April 11th
10:30 PM

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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Now here’s something completely different.

This is a sound story I did for my documentary class about a car accident I got into on Halloween 2010.

I had a lot of fun with this format of storytelling and would love to do something similar in the future. I’m thinking it might be interesting to mix anecdotes like this with some musical numbers to make a kind of soundstory/musical piece. Hmmmm. Ambitious.

April 9th
1:00 PM

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a message from zena-aria

You are one of the most talented males I have ever come across. I am so happy that I came across you, and your music. I love the way you compose your lyrics, it's just so unique and beautiful at the same time. I really hope I'm able to catch one of your shows one day, it would truly be a wonderful experience! :)

Thank you so so much!

This rules! A note to all of you guys: stuff like this makes my day.

<3

March 14th
12:29 PM

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Via

thespeedofsoundinseawater:

Hey folks! It’s time for the 1st Annual TSOSIS Cover Video Challenge!

Step 1: Film yourself performing ANY Speed of Sound in Seawater song on an instrument of your choosing.

Step 2: Upload the video to Youtube and post it on our facebook OR email it to soundinseawater@gmail.com

Step 3: Win cool prizes!

We’ll pick the winner on April 27th.

Runner ups will receive a signed copy of Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets.

The first place winner will receive a signed copy of Underwater Tell Each Other Secrets, a free t-shirt, free admission to TSOSIS shows for LIFE and the LAST copy of Red Version in existence.

Get to it, gang!

I’d love to see some of you do this!

Guess this means I need to post some how-to videos in the next few weeks.