Rhythma - Sean Michael Imler

My New Band, Souljourne Playing Saturday Night – souljourne.comSeptember 25th, 2010

Well, you know I’ve been doing this solo thing for quite a long time now, and I love having guest musicians performing with me. However, I stumbled into a really great situation recently. I was having a hand analysis done by a talented man named Todd Zimmerman who combines palmistry with medical hand analysis to help you with life purpose information. It was very fascination and really accurate. Anyhow, after chatting for a while, turns out he’s a didgeridoo player and hand percussionist, and his group was looking to possibly add a guitar player. So I went and jammed with them and it was utter magic. The music combines my guitar and percussion with their amazing wooden flute player Kenneth Hooper, and bassist and percussionist Daryl Lowery. As you can see, there’s a lot of percussion and a great dance vibe. The music is world beat tribal rock (that’s my description anyhow).

We’ve done two gigs so far, one at the Campbell farmer’s market which was exceedingly well received, and another at The Institute for Transpersonal Psychology which was awesome. Everything is really fresh with us and much of what we play is improvised, but we’re starting to get a nice collection of songs together. But the vibe is awesome.

You can check out some music clips I’ve recorded on our new web site which we just launched yesterday.

Souljourne.com — Please sign up on our mailing list there.

This Saturday night, September 25, we’ll be playing a great show in Mountain View at 7:30pm at a yoga center.

Yoga Is Youthfulness Studio
590 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA
Tickets – $25
For tix and info, go to http://yogaisyouth.com or call 650-964-5277

I realize the ticket price is a little steep. It was set up before I joined the group and the yoga center set the price. However, I will make sure that no one is turned away for lack of funds. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a sliding scale, just ask for me. I want to encourage you to come out and join the experience. The energy will be beautiful and some wonderful spirits and angels will be present.

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Me and George MichaelAugust 1st, 2010

George Michael and I were driving around in a convertible thru a quaint little town with beautiful trees. We were working on the song, “A Different Corner” that I’d never heard with vocal harmonies. He was singing it and I was working on the harmony parts. In the meantime, we were looking for antiques and driving thru an area with a lot of antique stores, but it was a weekend afternoon and the parking was complicated. I was coming up with some nice harmonies and it was a fun day.

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I’m Batman, DammitJuly 27th, 2010

So, I realize that I’m Batman and Robin and I are stuck on the rooftop of an enormous building in the industrial part of Gotham. The Joker has taken our utility belts and has them wrapped around an air vent not too far away. The problem is, the physics of the environment are all screwed up. If I go to take a swing, my arm flies along a completely unintentional trajectory. If I try to walk, it feels like my legs weigh 1k lbs. Robin is having the exact same problem and we’re looking at each other exasperated at the unfruitful efforts we’re making to defend ourselves against The Joker, who is kicking our asses. He apparently knows how to function perfectly in this environment and probably created it, and he’s not only fully capable but seems to have extended his abilities to making himself elastic-like and is stretching his arms and punching me in the face from both sides at the same time, yet standing about 4 feet from me, when I can actually catch a glimpse of him. It’s pretty awful.

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Rob’s TattooJune 22nd, 2010

I was in the house I grew up in with my Mom and step monster, Rob. We were in the living room near the piano going thru boxes of some sort and we were all getting along alright although I had some misgivings. Rob wasn’t wearing a shirt and I noticed that he had a really unusual tattoo on him but I didn’t want to look too closely because the strange feeling I had about the situation.

We got done going thru the boxes and my Mom left the room. I walked over and sat on the couch. Rob took off the rest of his clothes and wrapped up his lower half with some sort of sarong and started walking over toward me. I watched him more intently now and noticed that the tattoo appeared to start on his back and it was a geographical map of a city. All over his back were large glass beads that had been placed into cuts in his skin that had healed over with a hole to reveal the glass bead inside. I was really astounded.

When he sat down near me, I asked him about the tattoo. He showed me the from of it and I noticed the name “Elvis” on it, and I realized that part of the city layout was a cemetery in Memphis, TN. I asked him if the tattoo was Memphis and he replied that it was taken from a very old map “before the Brazilians arrived.” I really didn’t know what he meant by that but he showed me how the tattoo wrapped around onto his stomach into a large open scroll with a lot of writing. I started reading it but unfortunately don’t remember what it said anymore than it was some sort of historical perspective on the period.

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Folk Without Borders, a Benefit for Doctors Without BordersMay 27th, 2010

This is going to be a great night of music @ The Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga, CA on June 6th, starting at 6:30pm. It’s a benefit for my favourite charitable cause, Doctors Without Borders. Admission is a requested donation of $10 and 100% of the proceeds from the door will go to Doctors Without Borders.

Playing will be folk rock artist Rhythma, SF Bay Area’s power folk trio Tin Cat, and Americana singer/songwriter Chris Hanson. Food, wine and beer are available at the venue and there’s plenty of parking in the back if you can’t find it on the street. Get there early because seating is limited.

Folk Without Borders

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Artshots Film PresentationMay 25th, 2010

I got an email from my friend, Vincent Lowe about a week ago asking if I’d run sound for an event he was putting on at San Pedro Square Theatre in downtown San Jose. The event was called “Art Shots” and it was a small competition sponsored and facilitated by Artsopolis and Vincent Lowe to connect film makers to artists. The film makers would choose an artist that they wanted to interview and produce a 90 second film clip describing the artist. The event was the culmination of the competition, showing many of the films that were submitted and rewarding the winners. The grand price was awarded to ArtShots 2010, Carl Couchman.

The best part for me were the excellent live performances of artists from the competition, Amy Obenski and Tin Cat. I talked with the guys from Tin Cat and they’ve agreed to play with Rhythma at the Doctors Without Borders concert at The Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga on Sunday, June 6th at 6:30pm.

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Geronimo GarMay 23rd, 2010

I was standing in a room with a man in his early 30’s, tall, dark hair, dark skin, clean shaven, possibly Puerto Rican. We were talking with a woman in a dark suit. She was in her 50’s, dark hair, educated. The conversation had gone into the topic of 60’s and 70’s television programs and she was talking about programs that the man didn’t know about. I don’t recall the names she used. I was given a book that had the name of the dark skinned man at the top of the first page. His name was Geronimo Gar.

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Upcoming ShowsMay 13th, 2010

I’ll be playing at The Blue Rock Shoot this Friday night at 10pm. I will be joined by some great musicians so if you wanna see Rhythma as a band, this is not a show to be missed. Get there early because seats tend to fill up but the crowd does come and go.

Also, I wanted to let you know that Tarradiddle (Sean Michael Imler and Bill Mason) will be the featured performer at the Red Rock Coffee Co. open mic on Monday, May 17. We’ll do a 1/2 hour set starting at 9pm, so come down and enjoy a post dinner coffee.

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New Art – The Sight of FrequencyMay 8th, 2010

I just uploaded a new piece of art to Fine Art America called “The Sight of Freequncy.” Take a look, and this time, I’m expecting my url minimizer to work. bit.ly killed me last time when my Socialite plugin malfunctioned. I’m using tinyurl.com now. It’s a little longer but not that much and it works. That’s a big bonus.

The Sight of Frequency

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New Video: Sweet ObsessionApril 26th, 2010

I’ve uploaded the video for Sweet Obsession to YouTube.Â Check it out!Â It was filmed by Brooks Graham, contains artwork by Arnold Chau and edited by Ryan Smith , the same team who did Be the Change.

You can download the songs from a number of places from right hand side of Rhythma.com or buy the CD from CDBaby.

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