As:Is

Hello dear friends and fans, My 19th release of the 2026 is out via BANDCAMP. @bandcamp The link is hanging from the 🌲 👆 Thx for supporting:) When it comes to drawing lines in the sand, I usually run away without a firm decision. Even on a good day I’d rather make a lopsided sandcastle that is destined to get washed away during high tide than just about anything else. Being a typically indecisive person, I am generally more comfortable without rigid boundaries. Once the walls are up and more divisive tactics are constructed, my curiosity usually pushes me to question those limits anyway. I want to do “the real research” — absorb from experience, make mistakes, and then comprehend things firsthand. But you have to learn what they are before you break them and I would be the first to admit that it is a lifelong climb up the eternal hill. Then there are human stereotypes that supposedly define you. They never seem to articulate what it is that makes you unique. For years, I joked that the introvert is a “loomer,” the extrovert is a “f*ckface.” But I never came up with a fun word for the ambivert. So here we go; Slinky. Or what about the recently embraced personality of the otrovert? How about this; Shapeshifter. Nevertheless, this album is dedicated to new names for hybrid concepts, identity moshpits, and the desire to oscillate between definition and freedom. Nonome 1. I’ve Seen Worse 2. Stealing Time 3. Floorpie 4. Hiraeth 5. Polarizer 6. Tactical-Forward 7. Nobody Wants To Know 8. The Otrovert Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar, Efx Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble

Greetings, My 18th release of 2026 is out via BANDCAMP. Here is a bit about it:) Switching lanes mid-motion can be troubling for the perceiver from afar. But it can feel so powerful to have the innate control to change at your own will. Human judgement and the intuition that flickers within us is essential more than ever. It moves through our shared languages and individualistic motives in a way that no coding system could ever render. We all navigate how to take finite orders, deal with breakdowns, and then operate with a fine-tuned balance of precision and error. This energy creates a degree of friction that serves as an indispensable learning tool. But now we are moving alongside machines that do not hesitate. While they relentlessly drain water from reserves across our precious world they process, resolve, rinse and repeat at speeds that end up erasing any friction — collecting from us and our powerful minds without any discernment and all the while continuously making mistakes without any consequences. They are fooling us and tempting us to abandon what makes us human. Instead we should be resilient, escape unneeded surveillance if we can, maintain our identities, and be observant of the inevitable rising costs of supplies. We are colliding with these automated systems whether we like it or not and these 12 tracks of human-made music speak to that matter. 1. Codeswitcher 2. Panopticon 3. Why Can’t We Be Friendly? 4. Costs Go 5. Weaning 6. Norm to the Core 7. Even on a Nice Day 8. Hither and Thither 9. Just Let it Fail 10. Typo to the Repo 11. Settling Sails 12. Compiler Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar, Efx Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble

Hello All, Happy Bandcamp Friday! GAMSIM is back with a new release>> link is in bio:) Pronoia is the belief that the universe or others are conspiring to help you, acting as the opposite of paranoia. This album finds GAMSIM refining their shape-shifting language into something both more focused and expansive. Trumpeter/electronic artist Noah Simpson and guitarist/FX explorer Mike Gamble craft a fluid dialogue of textured improvisation and detailed production, where small gestures move through shimmering electronic environments. Short-form pieces unfold like interconnected signals. Glitchy pulses. Airy horn lines. Processed guitar fragments that feel like they are slipping between structure and spontaneity. But there is a sense of cohesion that is beneath the surface, as if each moment is guided by an unseen logic. The result is a concise, immersive work that explores connection, perception, and the subtle patterns that bind disparate sounds into a living organism that is experiencing Pronoia. 1. The Sun Is Out 2. Ogling 3. Pair Of Socials 4. Flukiness 5. Self-Talk 6. Fall Connection 7. Glitchy 8. Up To You 9. The People Are Ok Mike Gamble- electric guitar, electric bass and EFX Noah Simpson- trumpet, electronics, sound design and EFX Recorded live at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G Photo by Devin Febbroriello and Design and Artwork by Noah Simpson As:Is Records 5.1.2026 @asisrecordings Thanks for the support Noah and Mike

Greetings, Release 17 “Skullduggery” Underhanded dealings usually stay entertainingly distant: podcasts, memes, a friend’s story. But this week I got a front-row seat. It started with an email: a “free” vintage Gibson J-60 looking for a good home. I took the bait. I replied with my whole musician/teacher spiel, picturing a wholesome handoff. Instead, I got “Gerson Riggs,” hyping the guitar as the legendary “Bone Crusher,” dodging a meetup, and sending packing videos while asking for my location. Then came the pushy follow-ups (“I;m wondering about your silence.”). At that point, the phishing aroma was undeniable. Rather than pay imaginary shipping fees for a box of SPAM, I ghosted Mr. Riggs—and recorded some music instead. Shilly-Shally Parcel Routing Slow Dance With Guilt To Sell With A Handbasket Skullduggery Table Turner Intrinsic Shell Buddy Brood Tried To Be Trendy Waiting For It Filling in The Gaps Loophole Pill Mike Gamble – Electric Guitar, Efx Mike Gamble – Electric Bass Mike Gamble – Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble Link is in the link-tree above//

Today’s my birthday.🎂 4/20 😝 And why not—this year I’m dropping my 15th album, a day ahead of the usual Tuesday schedule. Much love to everyone who’s been keeping up with me on this weekly album journey. Here’s a glimpse into The Serpent Bearer. The zodiac has always fascinated me since I was a child. It’s been addictive enough to make me check my chart periodically for the promise of a clearer answer. As I dug deeper I followed these patterns from the familiar twelve into more intricate systems; the Vedic charts, the shifting houses, and the endless interpretations from real and ghostwriting astrologers. Somewhere along the way you do get tricked into codifying yourself. You flatten your identity through sun signs, blame your moods on your moon signs, and eventually size each other up with a confidence that feels suspiciously biased. The sky of assorted constellations that is full of distant fire becomes a comfy pocket mirror or personified as a cosmic travel guide that we trust a little too much. I find it all to be an excuse to avoid self-discovery. And I am certainly guilty myself. And yet, tucked between all this certainty, there’s an omission most of us simply ignore. The thirteenth sign: Ophiuchus. The serpent bearer. The shadow worker. The healer. The outlier that is too disruptive to the capitalistic “month to sign” ratio. Call me a skeptic but we always seem to find it easier to leave the wackadoo out of the narrative rather than rethink the whole system to consider it to be an integral part. So, this album is a nod to the energies we overlook because they complicate things and don’t seem to fit. Those elements in life are unique, special, and shouldn’t be spoiled or gatekept by fixed systems. The Serpent Bearer 1. Ramming 2. Bullwhips 3. Twin Talk 4. Crustaceanology 5. The Lion’s Snore 6. Maideness 7. Balancing Act 8. Envenomation 9. Crossed Bowing 10. Goating 11. Torrential 12. Fishfried 13. Serpentarius Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar, Efx Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records Artwork by Mike Gamble

Hey folks, My 15th release of 2026 is out via bandcamp:) Biformalities is a collection of 21 improvised pieces for solo acoustic guitar and solo upright piano, recorded direct to tape and spanning 42 minutes; 21ish minutes per instrument. Exploring themes of duality, the album stretches small musical moments until opposites can be heard side by side. Sometimes the silence carries the weight while dissonance either resolves or persists. Even familiar forms eventually reveal their unexpected edges. Like passing ships in the night or brief observations of small tugboats, these spontaneous reflections emerge as shared states and then evolve seamlessly into 21 modes of dichotomy. Biformalities 1. Waves & Particles 2. Mind-Body 3. Light vs. Shadow 4. Ordered Chaos 5. Electric Hearts with Magnetic Souls 6. Yin to Yang 7. Mirrortruthing 8. Fire Greets Ice 9. Silence and Its Gravity 10. Poetry Coding 11. Heaven Above Hell 12. Both Sides of Infinity 13. Symmetry Breakup 14. The Observer’s Paradox 15. Darkness Made of Light 16. Echo Origin 17. Internal Duality 18. Zero vs. One 19. Parallel Reflections 20. Same World Different Eyes 21. Maximality Restraint Mike Gamble- Acoustic Guitar Mike Gamble- Upright Piano Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble

Greetings, A lil tidbit about my 14th weekly release: “Stones Left Unturned” Resolution and avoidance tend to dissolve into each other more than we would expect. Even when things seem “settled” they rarely feel dealt with. Silence isn’t true closure and distance/time is not actual healing. What we continually ignore does not simply disappear. Instead it lingers, festers, and resurfaces in unexpected ways. It can even come back and treat you with a heavy dose of overthinking, restlessness, and emotional complexity that is not warranted. This music signifies this bad habit of leaving things untouched and addresses the how and why we choose not to confront them. 1. Buried the Hatchet 2. Stones Left Unturned 3. Shrewd Board 4. Anthem for the Overthinkers 5. Kicky 6. Internal Getaway Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar, Efx Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble thanks for having a listen. Link in in bio:) Mike

Hey Everyone, Indeterminacy is a refuge for some and a nightmare for others. Some follow recipes; others improvise and just wing it. Either way, we are conditioned to want clarity regardless of the results we cook up ourselves. Meanwhile, new language keeps emerging and attempts over and over again to pin down what we are feeling and define the problems we face. More often than not, those efforts lead somewhere inconclusive. The answers stay partial. Anecdotal. Sometimes they never arrive at all. It’s confusing. And that is okay. What holds us back may not be uncertainty itself, but our resistance to it, our need to resolve what refuses resolution. Within that ambiguity, there are moments where this music briefly clarifies. A pattern locks into place, a harmony resolves just enough, or a motif returns with slightly more definition. Like finding a thread in a knot, these moments do not untangle everything. They just make the tangle easier to sit with. While illuminating small glimpses of coherence, this music is inviting us to dwell in the discomfort of not knowing. The question is not how to escape indeterminacy, whether is it something we eventually learn to inhabit? “Tosses and Turns” 1. Apozem, sure 2. House of Bathos 3. A Rorty One 4. Pleonastica 5. Promulgates 6. Just Take Me Out 7. Out Of The Running 8. Tosses and Turns Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble Thx for listening:) MG

Hey folks, Have you ever felt like you’re standing inside a fertile void, where possibility is everywhere but is never fully yours to touch? You have a continued awareness of its presence but for some reason you just don’t have access to it. Your inkling is to stick around to see if you can be present for that serendipitous moment when the grand exchange happens — getting your hopes up that someone or something can just allow this presence to attune you. Let it reach a part of you that needs guidance. Some direction. To simply lend a spark to ignite it. But instead you and this omnipotent energy just linger in that suspended state. All the counterparts are there, yet nothing quite connects. At this point the undeniable tension is now a perceivable distance that becomes its own fixture.That’s how this music speaks to me. It draws the listener in and makes it seem nearly impossible to leave the liminal space. “Static in the Walls” 1. Static in the Walls 2. Aftertaster 3. Trancing 4. Bemused 5. Tethered To Tiny Things 6. To Be Snubbed 7. The Margins That Tell 8. Scrutiny At best 9. Gormlessness 10. Tropophobia 11. Subtle Unease Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble Photo by Mike Gamble My 12th release of 2026:) Link is in the linktree Thanks for tuning in, MG

Hello, My 11th release this year is out there via @bandcamp Click ye olde linktree above:/\~ have a listen 👂 “Still Farther Than You Think” Self development takes much more than you would ever imagine. It’s never finished, and that’s how it should be. Each milestone does not originate from a point-and-click mentality or even a clear roadmap for that matter. Of course along the way you run into existential questions, moments of quiet mysticism, and long stretches where nothing seems to make sense. I feel like any growth rarely happens in straight lines too; it wanders through missteps, reflection, and patience. Most of the work feels invisible. It’s happening slowly within the process of how you think, notice, and respond to the world. Over time, without realizing it, you begin to see things from a higher place. This album is dedicated to the feeling that you’ve climbed a small lookout tower and the landscape of your life looks a little wider than before. From your perspective, you begin to see healing and growth take shape—never something you could simply add to a cart or have delivered. 1. The Lookout Tower 2. Emotive Inquiry 3. Missteps 4. Swervy 5. Retrophilia 6. Keeping to Your Own Quarters 7. Still Farther Than You Think 8. Free for Three 9. Cliché Work 10 Steadfaster 11. Open to New Things Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar / Effects Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble Photo by Mike Gamble

Hello, Lately I’ve been thinking about the human brain and its ability to remain curious. In a world where information never seems to stop flowing, I wonder if boredom even still exists. Or if it’s just buried somewhere at the end of the digital gutter, waiting for someone to bother lifting it back into life and function as impermanent once again. For some of us, that restless spark has already been worn down. What once felt like open-ended wandering is now filtered, optimized, and increasingly manufactured by the quiet machinery of algorithms, AI, and daily over-stimulation. It leaves me wondering how we hold on to the instinct that pushes us to pry, to question, to dig. Inquisitiveness used to thrive in empty space: joined by long stretches of silence and instances of uncertainty. Now those tandems are harder to find. The challenge is remembering how to keep searching anyway and how to stay interested in the dirt beneath our feet and finding the strange uncharted territory just beyond the map. Maybe the only real way forward is to protect that instinct ourselves. To guard it. To ignore the noise when we can. Then tell your friends and family when you figure that out. I’ll do my best to stay on the trajectory of making music and being inspired by others while I am still magnetized to the record button. “Brianfodder” 1. Galvanizer 2. Self Effacement 3. Pit Oneself Against Itself 4. Still Not Enough 5. Can’t Not See That 6. Brainfodder 7. Keep it Elsewhere 8. Straight to the Core 9. Ego Ballad 10. Tunnelvision 11. Defiant Mike Gamble- Electric Guitar Effects Mike Gamble- Electric Bass Mike Gamble- Drums and Cymbals Recorded at Color Therapy Studios @centerforsoundlightandcolor Straight to Tascam 246 4-track Cassette Mixed and Plastered at Studio M//G As:Is Records @asisrecordings Artwork by Mike Gamble Photo by Mike Gamble

Greetings Turbulent World, I’ve always thought the 7 deadly sins are just moral flaws beating themselves up with 10ft poles that ultimately measure nothing. These “deadlies” have been pushed on us since childhood like tariffs from the lonely gods. They are anti-developmental, unhelpful and have created internal corruption within us all. So, for this release  I’m flipping the script by steering these old wretched sins towards a quick frenzy of 7 musical sketches + 6 more for good measure. Drawing from the framework of the seven virtues in Psychomachia and later expanded by St. Thomas Aquinas, I let this music inhabit the space where vice and virtue blur, weaving tension and release into sound as a reflection of their constant interplay within our souls.  We all certainly need help from something tangible, relatable, and/or mystical to heal psychological, digital, and relational corrosion that is running rampant. “Anything But A Cave” 1. Lust Life-force energy that’s addicted to keeping vitality 2. Gluttony Total surrender to the experience and with full immersion 3. Greed Not hoarding or gatekeeping — but ambition to build outside of neo-capitalism 4. Sloth Refusal to perform. A nod to Stillness and reflection. 5. Wrath The fire that protects while  keeping boundaries tidy. 6. Envy Aspiration to climb out of the comparison rot pit 7. Vainglory Not ego — but visibility to be seen in a digital wasteland with Self-Assertion 8. Ghosting Self-Preservation by choosing silence over perpetual guilt of FOMO 9. Borb Absorbing everything like the sponge that never dries because it refuses to harden. Keeping the lingering damp awkwardness alive so you’re not the only one feeling too much in any given situation. 10. Reclusive Self-chosen isolation. Interior empire of sovereignty like a spider and its powerful web 11. Passion Aggression Intensity directed with purpose and conviction, but often misconstrued as passive. 12. MetaVoyeur Awareness of seeing systems from outside them to become stronger in real interactions. 13. Freaker Radical authenticity, uncontainable presence. Mike Gamble- 🎸 🥁 bass @centerforsoundlightandcolor @devin_._jane_._ 🖼️ @ofcuriosities 📸