Leisure Thief

09/14/2021

Working towards playing live again and this is where it starts!

Rehearsing a live setup in my new digs! Moog DFAM + Diamond CPR-1 & Gamechanger Light / Moog Mother 32 + Strymon Flint & El Capistan / MFB Tanzbar + EHX Plat...

07/24/2020

Starting a little slide series re: production techniques I'm exploring on this new album - video to come, but let's start here with the kick:

07/13/2020

Sunny Sunday jams!

Overdubbing session for a new album in the works. This features the Roland SH3 + Moog MF104m delay + Knas Ekdahl Moisturizer reverb/filter + Moog MF103 phase...

07/13/2020

Overdub sessions with piano, organ, and synth. Skipping around (49 takes & about 400 minutes of raw material to work with) and seeing what sticks and what is worthy of development.

07/09/2020

Taking cues to "explore the space" from Christopher Walken's Bruce Dickenson

I can really only make mad elephant sounds or indigestion stomach grumbles with the trombone - good thing that's what I needfor a track I'm working on. I alr...

06/28/2020

Now streaming on all them platforms

Written & recorded in isolation by Lee Hutzulak (Dixie's Death Pool/Moth Mouth) during the COVID-19 lockdown. Pieces started w/ improvised hardware jams using synths, drum machines and a sampler for field recordings & electroacoustic textures. Colourful sound worlds were created w/ a unique selectio...

06/28/2020

Beds tracks in the can - for more than a week now! Getting into the overdubs :) Got about 50 takes to choose from, getting deep in the first track. Its got a very cool orchestral build-up with lots of mayhem and joyful dissonance - think Beach Boys "Fire" once the groove starts, morphing into Beatles "Day in the Life". After sessions today probably have enough sounds to work with - working on words now...

06/12/2020

Tracking beds for a new album - there will be dancing!

06/08/2020

A few weeks ago I biked to Stanley Park, reviewing mixes, and trying to think of a title for this tune. "Maybe Tomorrow" came to mind as did the idea of filming the video for it in Stanley Park. The piece has a pacific vibe that resonated with the surroundings. I filmed a bit on that day and came back after finishing the album to shoot more. It's so beautiful there and with the park closed to cars, I was able to safely get some sweet moving shots on my bike. There were lots of furry and feathered friends hanging out and I even caught something I've never seen anywhere - an otter w/ a fish wriggling in its mouth!
Aesthetically, VHS tape connects with the treatment of the acoustic guitar (put through an old Sony TC507 reel to reel), and the subject matter is all pretty pedestrian so I wanted to play that up, giving it home video from the 80s look, albeit with a bit of a surreal twist. The piece feels like an unearthed artifact from an imaged past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FRjKf2eVvM

06/07/2020

New jams!

06/02/2020

new video coming soon!

05/31/2020

Vancouver New Music is premiering a new Leisure thief piece written for Gwenda Ellwood's graphic score. Tune in Tuesday June 2nd at noon:

"Tribe of Humans" One-Page Score created by Gwenda Ellwood Music composition and performance by Lee Hutzulak This special spring edition of Vancouver New Mus...