hey friends!
Lastest Releases/ "Portage"/ a few shows/ EMAIL LIST
"Portage" by Caleb Miller/ me
https://calebmiller.bandcamp.com/album/portage-3
This is my first solo record in many many years... cleanly stated it is my "covid record". I recorded something about everyday beginning when the pandemic hit me and the Columbus community (March2020). After about 2 and a half months I ended with about 110 recordings, "Portage" is the whittled collection of 67 I thought expressed my mindstate. The collection is meant to feel somewhere between: "get me out of here" and "I don't want to feel this".... It's on tape/CD/digital and comes with a short story ("Baba's Snooze") by Columbus-based author Trek Micacchione! It feels so good to have this thing out there!
"Conrad/ Miller" by cbus based guitarist Taylor K. Conrad and myself (VMR009). Taylor's music is usually concerned unrelenting and long-form feelings... the records sounds full and has a dense sense of "I'm stuck in something". Buy it below!
https://taylorkconrad1.bandcamp.com/album/conrad-miller
"In a Room on the Second Floor" by tmptyng featuring myself on piano (VMR008): https://tmptyng.bandcamp.com/track/in-a-room-on-the-second-floor
audio work I recently did= "Butch Spring" by Pittsburg singer/songwriter Sara Renberg featuring cbus saxophonist Andrew Kovaleski: https://antiquatedfuture.bandcamp.com/album/butch-spring
* new releases "soon" coming from: See See, Zach Pennington/ me, and Troy Kunkler/ Mike Sopko (CLEV)!
SOME SHOWS (not all but some highlights):
Fri Aug 27th= "Conrad/Miller" release show at Dirty Dungarees (Columbus) with Ski Double Mask and others
Fri Sep 10th= Sun Trash (Columbus, https://suntrash.bandcamp.com) + Okapi (Asheville,https://www.okapiduo.com) @ Dirty Dungarees
Sat Sep 11th= Caleb Miller @ The SoHud Collective, music is 2pm-3pm, featuring a reading of "Baba's Snooze" by Columbus author Trek Micacchione
Sat Sep 25th= w/ Zack Kouns and friends @ the Serpent Mound (Adams County, OH) @5pm
Sun Sep 26th= Caleb Miller's Here Here @ The Summit's "Jazz Brunch" in cbus... 1230pm-3pm
Sat Oct 23rd= Caleb Miller's Here Here @ Dirty Dungarees, 7pm-10pm
Sat Oct 30th= Caleb Miller brings you "The Yellow River Boys"/ Halloween extravaganza @ Dirty Dungarees (Columbus)
Fri Nov 26th= myself, Steve Perakas (b) and Troy Kunkler (drums/ vibes) @ Dicks Den (Olde North/ cbus)... 10pm-1am
-------- UPDATE COVID
- as the worlds/ US starts the "trickle back" please check in for the shows/ events that are to following... in the meantime, check the "bands/"links"/"vmr" tabs for many personal projects and friends' projects...! a little goes a long way to aide in the cultural, economic and educational changes we have seen the last while... hope all is safe and well with you and your family/friends/pets/_____ ! we will get through this together! MUCH LOVE AND SUPPORT
LASTLY....JOIN EMAIL LIST?= interested in receiving occasional emails about shows, new music, projects and the life in between? if so, EMAIL me at calebarthurmiller@icloud.com to join the list!
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Sincerely,
* CALEB
personal bands
present and past bands I write / organize for
Caleb Miller (keyboards, winds, percussion, voice), Nick Weckman (guitar, winds, effects, voice)
Here Here
An intentionally rotating project of music/ styles / people.
2nd: Caleb Miller (saxophone), Henry Ross (saxophone/ voice), Jon Weisbrot (saxophone)
1st: Caleb Miller (keyboards), Justin Dickson (saxophone), Jordan Reed (saxophone), John Phillip Allen (bass), Seth Daily (drums)
godslots
noise duo of Caleb Miller and Abhilasha Jayanthi
See See
Caleb Miller (piano), Carolyn Cline (piano)
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Jordan Reed (saxophones), Nick Simko (trumpet), Eli Chambers (bass), Seth Daily (drums)
Ross / Miller
Caleb Miller (saxophone), Henry Ross (saxophone, contact mics)
Calebs
Caleb Miller (synths, winds), Caleb G. Miller (synths, percussion)
Tinsel Pig
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Seth Daily (drums), Alex Burgoyne (sax), Eli Chambers (bass), Andrew Sais (guitar)
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Troy Kunkler (drums) or Eli Chambers (drums)
friend's bands and projects
projects I am apart of or have been recently
The Ryan Craycroft Quartet
Dust Holds
Favorite Daughter
The Amy Gadd "Finally Something" Band
The Capital Pride Band of Columbus (accompanist)
Sean Marshall and the Near Miss
Mario Bosca Quartet
wambam
Yumbambe (sub)
Hoak, Wail and Moan (sub)
Nobrow Music Collective (sub)
Very Much Recordings
This is my record label. It was birthed in 2019 with the goal of celebrating "the newness of midwestern music and the people surrounding".
VMR001: Sun Trash- "Absolutely Immaculate" https://suntrash.bandcamp.com/album/absolutely-immaculate
VMR002: Sun Trash- "Flagellants" https://suntrash.bandcamp.com/album/flagellants
VMR003: Amy Gadd- "Finally Something" https://amygadd.bandcamp.com/releases
VMR004: Mystery Hole- "Gravity Works" https://mystery-hole.bandcamp.com/album/gravity-works
VMR005: Worms Rise Up- "Worms Rise Up" http://wormsriseup.bandcamp.com/
VMR006: Ryan Craycroft & Caleb Miller "Fleeing/Seeing" https://calebmiller.bandcamp.com/album/fleeing-seeing
VMR007: tmptyng- "Where I Am": https://tmptyng.bandcamp.com/album/where-i-am-single
VMR008: tmptyng- "In a Room on the Second Floor": https://tmptyng.bandcamp.com/track/in-a-room-on-the-second-floor
VMR009: Taylor K. Conrad/ Caleb Miller- "Conrad/ Miller" https://taylorkconrad1.bandcamp.com/album/conrad-miller
VMR010: Caleb Miller- "Portage": https://calebmiller.bandcamp.com/album/portage-3
UPCOMING releases from: Caleb Miller, tmptyng, See See, Zach Pennington, Taylor K. Conrad
* Submissions are welcome! (email me= calebarthurmiller@icloud.com)
other personal projects
Whatever You Niche
A podcast I hosted/ recorded/ helped organize from 2017-2019. It was a podcast about having conversations with people who are very much into a particular topic or are apart of a misunderstood community... Topics included: the fury-fandom, bread making, paganism, woodworking, drug addiction, dungeons & dragons and much much more! Hope to get it going again in 2020 to some capacity.
JNCO
The Jazz/ Noise Collaborative Orchestra. Was a monthly-series myself, Reggie Purdue and Nick Weckman have hosted at Cafe Bourbon Street 2016-2020... There is a featured act (local/ midwest/ touring) and a "JNCO" performance (featuring a cast of rotating improvisers from around Columbus). We have celebrated over 40 events and past performers include: James Mckain, Stephan Haluska, Mike Forbes, Bobb Hatt, Sfyria Trio, D.Turner Matthews, Chris Pitsiokos and others...
discography
UPCOMING
Caleb Miller- Portage (Very Much Recordings, 2021)
See See- Very High Up (VMR, 2021)
Francis Bacon Band- Unsettled (TBA, 2021)
Waves De Ache- untitled (TBA, 2021)
Taylor K Conrad- untitled (TBA, 2021)
Sun Trash- TBA (2021)
CURRENT RELEASES
Caleb Miller- Portage (VMR,2021)
Taylor K Conrad & Caleb Miller- Conrad/Miller (VMR, 2021)
tmptyng- In a Room on the Second Floor (VMR, 2021)
(audio work)= Sara Renberg- Butch Spring (Antiquated Futures, 2021)
Ryan Craycroft & Caleb Miller- Fleeing/ Seeing (VMR, 2020)
(audio work)= tmptyng: https://tmptyng.bandcamp.com/album/where-i-am-single (VMR, 2020)
Taylor K Conrad- 16 (self-released, 2020)
Hudson Ensemble- Hudson Ensemble (live/demo 2020)
Hello Emerson- How to Cook Everything (Anyway Records, 2020)
Worms Rise Up- Self-titled (VMR, 2020)
Fables- Fables (Flytown Records, 2020)
Radarhill and the Ohio University Wind Symphony- Ampersand (Mark Records, 2019)
Amy Gadd- Finally Something (VMR, 2019)
Ryan Jewell Quintet- Vibration! (Two Rooms Records, 2019)
The Francis Bacon Band- Familiar (self, 2019)
Sun Trash- Flagellants (VMR, 2018)
Sun Trash- Absolutely Immaculate (VMR, 2018)
Sun Trash and the Ohio University Wind Symphony- Sent Way (self, 2017)
Deciduous/ Midwestern Edition Vol. 1- self titled (Edgetone Records, 2017)
Radarhill and the Ohio University Wind Symphony- Lucidrome (Mark Records, 2017)
Sun Trash- Swept and Wept (self, 2017)
Mario Bosca Quartet- untitled (self, 2017)
Radarhill and Nick Weckman- Any Given Day (self, 2016)
Radarhill- Something's (self, 2016)
knots- Doesn't Do Anything Around the End (self,2015)
Radarhill- The Yeilds (self, 2015)
Matthew Burtner- Deep Earth (NoBrow, 2014)
Leaning Away- A Way (RTI, 2014)
Mark Markowski & Ohio University Wind Symphony (soloist)- Mothership (Mark Records, 2013)
photos
bio
Caleb Miller is a keyboardist/ saxophonist/ composer and educator currently residing in Columbus, OH. His work mostly focuses on midwestern perspectives surrounding improvisational-based music and projects. In Columbus Caleb plays and subs in many jazz-adjacent projects (Radarhill, Sun Trash, Waves De Ache, Favorite Daughter, Yumbambe, Ryan Jewell Quintet), songs groups (Keating, Fables, Francis Bacon Band), contemporary classical settings (dance accompanist, classical pianist) and other settings (solo work, TRIM, JNCO and host of the podcast Whatever You Niche). As output he tends to be most interested in productions that show a true synthesis of perspectives, sounds, individuals and communities (striving for some form of "newness"/ "things that are their own"). Caleb also currently operates the Columbus-based recording label Very Much Recordings and teaches in the American public (!) school system.
heroes are real people
Joseph Argiro
Alex Burgan
Carolyn Cline
Ryan Craycroft
Seth Daily
Justin Dickson
Mark Dutton
Kevin Holland/ Jennifer Dutiel
Troy Kunkler
Chris Lute
our cat Odessa
Jah Nada
John Phillip Allen
Jen Powers
Rich Purdue
Andrew Sais
Daniel Seibert
Ben Sheidlower
Nick Simko
Anna Siriano
Sonnedecker Records
Jason Snoddy
Jake Webb
Nick Weckman
contact
for booking/ bands/ VMR/ almost anything
calebarthurmiller@
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