Mosaic madness for our palpebrae...
Just a little something to pass the time...try not to blink.
Random blaghness...
Mosaic madness for our palpebrae...
Just a little something to pass the time...try not to blink.
My new album Flotsam and Jetsam will be released tomorrow, August 13th, 2013. You still have time to purchase the "Pre-Order" version with two free songs not included in the album. I have made CD's as well as digital downloads. I have not done this in a while, and perhaps will be my last attempt at making physical CD's, since it is going the way of cassette tapes and 8-tracks. I will mail each CD personally, so if you want me to write something or sign it, just let me know and it will be done.
I am quite pleased how the album came out. It is always a difficult task for me to make art that pleases me at the time, and still be ultimately pleased with at the end of the process. I know I have been sharing the development of my album over these many months, so the songs will not come as a surprise to most, but I would rather keep in touch with progress every few weeks, than a once a year announcement. There is one surprise, a cover of the Beatles "Tomorrow Never Knows". It wasn't planned, but it belongs with this album. I have taken a few creative liberties with my version. It is not a faithful rendition, as I am not very interested in doing close copies.
You can purchase my music here on my "Downloads and Merch" page, powered through Bandcamp, or of course the regular digital store such as iTunes, Amazon, et cetera....
Thank you, everyone who has helped/supported me through these years. It could have not been done without you. I am thankful for my life and the opportunity to make/share art that comes from a place I have no understanding, but having only clarity of its arrival.
I keep thinking I am finished with my album. Maybe I am. I need a few months to save up some money before I can release it, soooo...maybe a couple new songs might nudge out ones I thought would be released. A work in progress. I am not really Kickstarter material, meaning.....I hate promoting. Case in point, my last album "Galaxies With Long Yellow Curtains", I mentioned the release once on Twitter, Facebook, et al, on the day it came out. That's it. *laughing* I figure I will be found like a bread crumb, a shiny coin, or like gum on your shoe...somehow found and either picked up and put in your pocket or scraped off on the edge of the sidewalk.
Rise
Out to the sets! Pay need heed to the warning sounds!
Ultramarine. Don't be afraid!
Seventy breaths. The plexus of Next is willingly with you now
For an instant and forever.
A raging sea, the ghost of me, so strange and sinking
Where a soul cannot hide
Plummet the depths, with no regrets
Sunsets of eye closed
Bursting up through the water to the sun.
Soon we are sleeping...
Just like we're gliding along on a lightning chrome yellow sky
to the sea again
For an instant and Forever
A raging sea, the ghost of me, so strange and sinking
Where a soul cannot hide
Plummet the depths, with no regrets
Sunsets of eye closed
Bursting up through the water to the sun.
Soon we are sleeping...
Four oceans wide...the rain and the passage will eventually rise...
Having finished possibly my last song for my next album...I feel curiously unfinished and unsatiated. Perhaps this is due to my album artwork being undone from an artist I am truly excited about his involvement in my project. I plan to continue writing until he has finished the piece. This is very different for me, which I like, simply for the fact that I must give up complete control. I am really into writing on piano these days, so maybe I will continue this direction and see how deep I fall.
Sea Horses Forever
Day after day...
Shimmering, glimmering fathoms deep, spasms seep
Mermaid tongues in long lost Mariner's
Water-filled, water-willed lungs
Taken by storm, green light morn'
Up, Up, Up, Up under your
Blankets of night, fingers of stars, fist of light
Water everywhere, everywhere
Your Seven Sea Smile, a downward spiral
Into the water of your mouth
Day after day...
Unending, descending my life on Leviathan
Sea horses forever, I'm a mirror and you're a mirror too
So blue the oceans parts cotton candy hearts
Up, Up, Up, Up under your
Blankets of night, fingers of stars, fist of light
Water everywhere, everywhere
Your Seven Sea Smile, a downward spiral
Into the water of your mouth
Alright. Okay.
Day after day...