hey friends!
Lastest Things:
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*full catalog of releases in VMR tab!
"Problems" (VMR013) by Troy Kunkler
https://troykunkler.bandcamp.com/track/problem
First release of 2022 on Very Much Recordings. This will be a new monthly series from Columbus-based percussionist Troy Kunkler. The series will include one track a month + one skateboarding video a month. The first track "Problems" is above! Solo vibraphone...!
"Intensely Regional" (VMR012) by Calebs (Caleb G Miller and me)
https://calebs.bandcamp.com/releases
First release by a duo of two friends with the same name, from the same town who make similar music (SYNTHS!). Caleb G Miller and I met in 2019 at The Robinwood Concert House and quickly recorded this 4 track EP...
These tracks are a testament to using initial, clear connections but having them take forever to become alive. This situation/ "opportunity" appeared completely unforeseen, quickly, was immediately possible but was sat on. We grew up a few miles away from each other, were born in the same hospital and have other strange meandering connections...! Oh the world, oh the world...
"Hers" (VMR011) by Victoria
https://vvvictoria.bandcamp.com/album/hers-ep
Out now on Very Much Recordings! Coming straight from Cbus's own electronic extraordinaire, "Hers" is the latest EP from A. Rowe's project Victoria. In A's own words it's a "A jagged, hallucinatory romp through bouncing house tracks, psychedelic ambient sample explorations, pumping, spastic drum breaks, and soulful robotic pop evocations. It's a lot of ground to cover in 15 mins, so please put your sealtbelt on"... I couldn't agree more... snag it on BC above, GET IT and get moving...!
"Portage" (VMR010) 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!
SOME SHOWS (not all but some highlights):
Dec 31st= ring in the NEW YEAR w/ myself, Taylor Conrad, Matt Rolin and others @ Dirty Dungarees in cbus (730pm-???)
Jan 21= Caleb Miller's Here Here @ Dirty Dunagrees in cbus (730pm-10pm)
Feb 2nd= Zach Kouns, myself and others supporting Frank Hurricane @ Dirty Dungarees in cbus (730-10pm)
Feb 26th= Here Here @ Cafe Bourbon Street w/ Wet Hands and _______, music= 9pm- midnight
March 6th= Zack Koun's Spectacular Orchestra @ Cafe Bourbon Street
April 16th= Troy Kunkler vibes/ keys duo @ Natalie's Grandview, music= 6pm-8pm
May 21st= Caleb Miller's Here Here (8tet "I Was Wrong") @ Microfest (Fuse Factory/ ILLIO) in Columbus
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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)
An intentionally rotating project of music/ styles / people.
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Jordan Reed (saxophones), Nick Simko (trumpet), Eli Chambers (bass), Seth Daily (drums)
Caleb Miller (synths, winds), Caleb G. Miller (synths, percussion)
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Troy Kunkler (drums) or Eli Chambers (drums)
See See
Caleb Miller (piano), Carolyn Cline (piano)
godslots
noise duo of Caleb Miller and Abhilasha Jayanthi
Tinsel Pig
Caleb Miller (keyboards), Seth Daily (drums), Alex Burgoyne (sax), Eli Chambers (bass), Andrew Sais (guitar)VIDEOS of bands/ projects:
friend's bands and projects
projects I am apart of or have been recently
An Unnamed Project with Zack Kouns
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
VMR011: Victoria- "Hers" EP: https://vvvictoria.bandcamp.com/album/hers-ep
VMR012: Calebs- "Intensely Regional": https://calebs.bandcamp.com/releases
VMR013: Troy Kunkler- "Singles, 2022": https://troykunkler.bandcamp.com/releases
Labels we/I love: NNA Tapes, Astral Spirits, Hausu Mountain, Joyful Noise, Two Rooms, Cuneiform, Sound American, International Anthem, New Amsterdam, New Atlantic, Sunnyside Records and many others!
UPCOMING releases from: Caleb Miller, See See, Zach Pennington
* 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's Here Here- I Was Wrong About Most Things to Do With Other People (2022)
See See- Very High Up (VMR, 2022)
Francis Bacon Band- Unsettled (TBA, 2022)
Sun Trash- A Spittle Filled Blather (2022)
CURRENT RELEASES
(audio work)= Troy Kunkler VMR "Single Series"- Problem (VMR,2022)
Calebs- Intensely Regional (VMR,2021)
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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