By Robert Bergin
Dear Jascha Ephraim,
Stumbled across your CD a couple days ago. I was going through my collection, looking for stuff to sell to Amoeba because I’m broke and I needed a copy of Pootie Tang. If you haven’t seen Pootie Tang, you should. It’s right up your alley. But yeah, I came up with three or four CDs I didn’t want anymore and some promos, which I figured would be enough. Who needs Softies full-lengths when you’ve got the 7-inches, right? Anyways, no fucking way did I sell your self-titled. True, I haven’t spent time with it in a while, but that doesn’t change the fact that my roommate and I listened to you almost daily during the spring of 2006. You don’t part with that.
So what happened man? Where’d you go? Your Web site is bare. Your MySpace
has a wall post that hints that you might have left SF for Kentucky - WTF? - but other than that, nada. The world needs more of your tunes. “Goldfish Euthanasia” was for my little brother what that Offspring song about road-rage was for me. We need your sharp-witted synth-pop vulgarities. Or maybe just a status update? Hope alls well.
XOXOXO,
Robert
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Comments (3)
Hey Robert- I'm alive and well in San Francisco. For the past year-ish I've been performing with my huge band called the Jascha Ephraim Memorial Library.
I've been working on the next album for about three years now, but am putting the recordings and performances aside to make a really intense movie instead. It'll be sweet. And my website should be up and running in the next couple months.
Thanks for being great and having such impeccable musical taste!
Posted by Jascha Ephraim | August 13, 2007 05:57 PM
oh lordie, this be good news. glad to hear from you jascha, and if theres a live date somewhere in the future, please let us know.
Posted by Robert | August 15, 2007 04:44 PM
Awesome! I myself was wondering much the same. But, now that it's been a couple months and I am still in want of such a new record or a new movie, and I saw the whole orchestra in performance at Chicken John's Loser's Ball, it really begs the question: when the hell does the movie/album finally find its way to my grateful little ears?
Posted by Orin | December 9, 2007 09:55 PM