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As reported last post, I’ve arrived at a release date for both the remastered Luminous City and the first of the two Arc albums. While parts continue to roll in from assorted dots on the Northeast Seaboard and beyond, I … Continue reading
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You’re gonna cry.. 96 tears..
As I was saying before I was interrupted… — Jack Paar Not quite. Yes, there were interruptions aplenty, but I don’t know that they were necessarily rude, and some actually made me some money. Even so, I need to catch … Continue reading
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If there’s anything I enjoy better than doing something once
… it’s doing it twice. For a while now I’ve been in thrall of the two albums Jem Godfrey and his cronies released under the collective name Frost*, Milliontown and Experiments in Mass Appeal. Lately I’ve been A/B-ing these albums … Continue reading
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Just when I thought I was out
… along comes a new piece of software to pull me back in. It happens every. Single. Time. In this case it’s an acoustic guitar emulator called Spicy Guitar that has me replacing the acoustic guitar tracks on Downwind, which … Continue reading
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A taste of Over The Curve
In part to convince everyone that I am still making music after all, and in part to convince myself, here’s a track from the next @Fulcrum record to whet all our appetites. By design, it’s not the best fidelity—but is … Continue reading
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Three hours and counting
So after a week’s worth of scavenging online fora and pulling my hair out trying to get the LaCie drive to mount and function (remember that I am bald by choice and please don’t ask me where I pulled the … Continue reading
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Ah, technology, indeed
The 1TB LaCie drive that houses all the Describing An Arc sessions (and, for the moment, all the Luminous City remixes) is beginning to fail, I think. The data seems to be there and intact—when I’m able to actually access … Continue reading
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Lyrics added.. fear the power of the thesaurus
So I’m stoked. This is beginning to resemble a real Rock Band Web Site now that I’ve added the Luminous City lyrics to the hierarchy—as though I don’t go out of my way already to make the words listenable … Continue reading
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A few (OK, more than a few) notes on the new album
I usually save this sort of reflection for one day a year: my birthday in April. Even so, one morning in October I woke up thinking about this, and felt like examining. Never got around to publishing it till now, … Continue reading
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Hello world!
Please be patient while I apply fresh paint to the walls and install the sound system.
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The demands of broadcast, or of self
Actually, broadcast probably has nothing to do with what I’m up to at the moment.. it’s more for myself than anything. I’ve been hunting around the Innertoobs (be vewy, vewy quiet) in search of progressive-rock-minded radio streams that may wish … Continue reading
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Good things, bad things, and chains
With the whiteout conditions out of doors, I canceled my trip to Woodstock this weekend and decided to continue working on the next @Fulcrum record. It has turned into an arduous affair, this recording. Today I got tired of the … Continue reading
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With CAPE behind me..
.. I can concentrate on new musical projects. Finally. First up on my desk is tracking for the next @Fulcrum record, a loosely-connected 70-odd minute description of the rise and fall of a relationship that may or may not involve … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Avarice (Too Much Is Not Enough)
This song bothers me… but not enough that I didn’t put it on the record anyway. It filled a specific and quite important purpose in the band’s repertoire: it’s fast, it’s aggressive, it gives the soloists a chance to stretch … Continue reading
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Luminous City: One AM Deluxe
Once upon a time there was an Englishwoman living in Manhattan with whom I really wanted to get my freak on– and I think she might have been interested in the same thing (judging from an evening spent macking at … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Childhood Falls
As with Storming Heaven, the song began with Pete. He had the wistful opening section, I wrote the key change/jam section and the lyrics… about as close to jazz fusion as we ever got, actually. This aspect was what appealed … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Topanga Canyon Blues
So this would be one of the first songs the three of us wrote together. Josh had the bass riff. Paula had the accompanying second-line beat (though I tweaked it somewhat in the rendering). I told Pete, “Maybe a Chuck … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Gaining On Me
Continuing with our tour of the seven tracks on the album, we arrive at the song that does not sound like the other six. This one has other musicians on it. History. The Radiant City rehearsal space was in the … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Inbound/Storming Heaven
Well, let’s make this the repository for everything I might have to say about the various Luminous City songs and compositions I’ve released into the veld of public consumption. M’boy Dan had a listen to Movement Along A Path the … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Good news and bad news
The good news is that Luminous City is live at iTunes, Rhapsody, and Napster! The bad news is, the band name as it appears in their stores may be slightly off. At iTunes and Napster, it’s being listed as being … Continue reading
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Luminous City and Movement: Won’t be long now
Tunecore updates me that they’ve taken care of their end and have sent both Luminous City and Movement Along A Path off to the various vendors so that they can do what they need to do to stock them. I’m … Continue reading
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Luminous City: Buy it soon
Yesterday I uploaded Luminous City to Tunecore for distribution in about a month’s time through the assorted iTunes stores (USA, Canada, UK/Europe, ANZAC, and Japan), Rhapsody, and Napster. That means that in about a month, or a month and a … Continue reading
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Still alive and well
Just a short break in the action here at the Sanctum Sanctorum.. lately I have been busier than a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest. Most of the activity here has been geared toward the piano instrumental album I’ve been … Continue reading
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I give up… how DO you record a show…
… with the microphone turned the wrong way? My unheralded post of 7 April included a tidbit in the first paragraph that I had played a show (it was Gilo’s in East Hartford with the Steve Montano Band) and recorded … Continue reading
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This thing isn’t on… is it?
So, m’kay, I’ve been having a bitch of a time posting anything to my blog at MySpace under any circumstances. I wanted to rant and rave about the show I recorded the other night– with the microphone turned the wrong … Continue reading
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