Yeah I have been releasing music under the name josef k (much catchier than Erik JM Schneider, which is fine for a writer but not for A Musical Act (or a series of music acts?)) but not too very long ago I was reminded that there was already a band by that name and they were an 80s band much as we (Infamous Menagerie) were until we became a 90s band for a couple of years and they were post-punkish also and I had completely forgotten about them.
So rather than continuing to possibly cause confusion among.. anyone? Who might run across my stuff and be nearly as old as I am but with a better memory perhaps, I have been rolling around possible additions to one end or the other of 'josef k'.
The only other serious contenders:
josef hf k started sounding better to me in the last few months so now that is going to be the name I put on work that for whatever reason seems like it should belong to josef hf k rather than Erik JM Schneider. That's been music so far but name creep may occur across media depending on mood and whim.
I figure the web domain might as well stay what it is? Until I change my mind about that, too--but I just paid registration fees for another year. Literally nobody cares about any of this but I feel compelled to note it here anyway.
I am going to stay with one josef k, especially now that I paid for the web domain. I cannot really account for its appeal to me; it occurred to me early on but without explanation as to why. one josef k could be an address I suppose: they live at one josef k now. Since I have always felt only a tenuous connection to any of my given names, acknowledging this one as bare address seems apt, as does its susceptibility to change. I could be (at) two or three or n josef k and maybe I will be.
Why are we expected to live at one and only one address our entire lives unless we are willing and able to go to the time and expense of a legal name change.
For that matter how can every alumni association find me within weeks of a move, before I have had the time to propagate a change of address everywhere it needs to be propagated.
Anyway I will go change my musiknym at bandcamp and maybe even soundcloud sooner or later but right now it remains this obscure announcement on a simple html index file that I think maybe two people know about.
And one day there may be something more than this simple html index file. Until then, I am putting things here that are not quite ready to be put someplace more conspicuous.
josef k - If You Were Still Around [.flac, 46 MB]
if you want an mp3 version and don't have a tool to convert from flac, text or email me. email can handle mp3s but nothing much bigger; otherwise I would have emailed you this file instead of going to the trouble of putting it on a web server. no it is not 1995 anymore. no I do not know why email servers still think it is, but I might know someone who does.
Yes the id3 tag still says josef k and I will change that soon enough or not soon enough or maybe never but as long as I can poke out letters onto the computer screen we can hold out for the possibility that I will continue to do so again at some point.
I have not yet abandoned this mix nor have I asked John Cale for permission to cover the tune so those are two reasons why it is not more publicly available. I don't mind if you share as long as you agree to this single, absolutely legally binding request: you send the final (or finally abandoned) mix to everyone you sent this one to.
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