News

New Album "Open" Out Sept. 1

2009-07-22T15:29:00Z

July 22, 2009
It's done! The next album is called "Open." Watch for new tracks to be added soon to Myspace, and you can preorder it from www.geraldprokop.com. We added to few of them to our live set also, so come to a show, check it out and buy your copies of Exits + Obstacles and Enormous Problems in the meantime to help me pay for this shit!

Tracks:
Separating
Just Friends
On the Edge
Nothing to Protect
On Falling
Life Inside
Temporal Lobe
Autonomy
Time
Opt Out

You'll be able to buy it from places such as CDBaby, Twin Cities record stores, Prokiev Projects + Publishing, etc. by Sept. 1st. There is also going to be a big CD release show at the Hexagon on September 3rd, with my friends Teenage Moods and Ficshe. Mark your brains!

Help organizing a tour

2009-05-05T22:09:00Z

May 5, 2009

I'm heading for the road in September. Below is a list of states I will be traveling through. I'm looking for bands in these areas who want to set up shows and possibly places to crash, although I also plan on camping along the way. Send me a message on Myspace or email me at mail@geraldprokop.com if you can help.

Dates are tentative but generally I plan to leave MN to the south in early September and arrive back from the east in late September, being on the road for about three weeks.

Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
New Mexico
Texas
Arkansas (or Oklahoma, Missouri)
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin

Enormous Problems

2009-04-28T22:05:00Z

April 28, 2009
The new EP, Enormous Problems, is ready and available for purchase through Prokiev Projects + Publishing or Snocap.

Enormous Problems is an eight-track, partly instrumental CDR with lots of noisy keyboards and transistor overdrive. Two tracks from it, "Woken in Half" and "The Drill Return" are up on Myspace and you can also stream the album at iLike and Last.FM.

The physical package includes an inkjet-labeled CDR with photocopied art, a fictional text and a Prokiev sticker, housed in a clear bag. Buy it at Prokiev Projects + Publishing

Buy the MP3 album on Myspace, in the Snocap store.

New EP out in May

2009-03-30T04:04:00Z

March 29, 2009
I'm working on the next full length record, which I hope to release this summer. In the meantime, I'm polishing up (if you can call it that) some tracks to release in May as a CDR EP, entitled "Enormous Problems." It'll be available from Prokiev Projects + Publishing and Snocap.

New drummer and a project

2009-02-24T06:33:00Z

February 23, 2009
I have a new band member joining the lineup, drummer Chris Pappas. He will be playing with Sarah and I on Saturday, February 28th at Fort Awesome. It's exciting to be raising the volume level and making the songs from Exits + Obstacles come alive in real time!

I also have a totally different project in the works: recording another band. Bla Bla Blacksheep, my friends, fellow zinesters and travelmates, are letting me record their album for them. I'll be documenting it on my blog.

I added some stuff to the top of the website so you can subscribe to the periodic news feed (this), receive RSS notification of upcoming shows and subscribe to my monthly email newsletter.

Upcoming Gigs

2009-01-22T16:37:00Z

January 22, 2009
I guess my New Years resolution is to get out and play some shows. I've been working with Sarah Wash, who will be providing backing vocals and piano for me during these upcoming gigs. And my new robot friend, Alesis SR-18 will take care of the drumming! Watch my calender page as more shows are added.

January 25 at Acadia Cafe with Brad Senne and Me You Like I
February 28 at Fort Awesome, with Fleetwood Marx and more TBA
March 14 at the Beat Coffeehouse with Telepathos and Ghostband

Detritus downloads are back

2008-12-09T06:31:00Z

December 9, 2008
I'm not posting the free downloads from the Detritus Volume I series on Myspace anymore. Instead, you can get the lyrics and download the song from my blog, Quelquechose. You can also listen to it right from the blog post. I also made an archive for the collection on my Detritus Online Mess website, but in keeping with the theme of that site, you'll have to stumble upon it.

The Detritus Volume I project is a collection of old recordings that I'm posting as free downloads. It includes out-takes, demos and otherwise unused tracks. Detrius Online Mess is a creative interweb dumping ground that will hopefully grow to be hopelessly convoluted and unmanageable.

Exits + Obstacles Out Now!

2008-10-04T18:29:00Z

October 1, 2008
The new CD, Exits + Obstacles, is out in certain Twin Cities area stores right now. The list of places to get it is growing, so if you know of a store that you think would want to stock it, let me know.

Exits + Obstacles

2008-07-10T04:38:00Z

July 9, 2008
The new CD, "Exits + Obstacles" will be available in the fall. For now, check out the Myspace page, where you can listen to the new track, "Give MN Back to Canada."

"Detritus" Project

2008-04-14T15:57:00Z

April 14, 2008
Gerald is compiling old recordings into a new project, entitled "Detritus." Each track will be posted as a free download on Myspace before the CD is compiled.

April Open Mics

2008-04-07T18:40:00Z

April 7, 2008
The shows/events section has been updated. Gerald will be playing open mics around the cities throughout April and into May.

Quelquechose Re-Launched

2008-04-03T16:38:00Z

April 3, 2008
Quelquechose, Gerald Prokop's personal blog, has been re-launched under the WordPress platform. Gerald blogs about the arts, projects he's working on and the personal struggle of being a creative person.

Quelquechose main page
Subscribe to the Quelquechose feed

Recording on Hiatus, Possible Midwest Tour in May 2008

2008-03-24T06:01:00Z

March 15, 2008
Gerald has been on hiatus from recording for a little while. Time to play some shows. Plans are being hatched for some greater midwest dates this May.

New CD Planned for Spring 2008

2008-03-24T06:00:00Z

February 19, 2008
Gerald Prokop is currently at work recording the tracks for a new full-length CD, scheduled for release this spring. As usual, the new disc will be released on Prokop's Prokiev Projects + Publishing label. To track the progress of this project, visit the Quelquechose Blog.

Retired: Gerald's Tascam Four-Track

2008-03-24T02:25:00Z

February 19, 2008
Bought off a friend upon selling a huge painting to his college, Gerald Prokop's four track was the instrument and inspiration behind disc after disc of solo indie bedroom post-rock and noise-pop. It nearly bit the dust in the middle of the sessions for Twenty-Eight, but survived to make one last disc, Sorry About the Noise. Now, it's off to Arizona in the RV on a Prokiev pension. Gerald is now the proud owner of a new Tascam FW-1082.