D. Charles Speer & the Helix are cutting a new album...

…for Thrill Jockey Records, due out in April, 2011.  Jason LaFarge of Seizures Palace is in the lab coat behind the Ampex machine.  It’s a real doozy:  psych-rock, Texas-blues, cajun, country and much more…it’s an epic tale of American musical madness…

David Charles Shuford cutting an acoustic guitar track…

Marc Orleans at the pedal steel…

Ted Robinson has a smoke…

Steve McGuirl doing some boot-repair…

Yours truly taking a self-portrait at the Sohmer…

Jason LaFarge, the man behind the “mighty Gowanus sound”…

D. Charles Speer & the Helix sign to...

As a member of the Helix, I am happy to announce that D. Charles Speer & the Helix signed with Thrill Jockey Records to release our forthcoming record (champagne pops in background)!!! 

We will be recording heretofore and forthwith, said record, the first week of November, in avoidance of all doubt, let that be known hereafter as the “LP”, at Seizure’s Palace recording studio, in Brooklyn, NY, herewith set forth in perpetuity, that in music we trust…

Recorded a song for an upcoming 7" single at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn, NY with engineer Jason LaFarge (Devandra Banhart, Akron/Family, Angels of Light), Steve McGuirl on guitar (Oakley Hall, Prince Rupert’s Drops), and D. Charles Speer cohort, Marc Orleans, on pedal steel.