My new album of old, previously unreleased songs, vault I – Solo, Kiss Me Screaming & Maypops, is now available everywhere that music streams, including Spotify, Apple Music, Bandcamp and wherever else.

What started as a fond but dim rememberance of a song I wrote 30 years ago (I Know How You Feel) became a low grade feverish obsession with rediscovering, reimagining and repurposing musical structures abandoned in pursuit of sounds I imagined to be more pertinent to the relentless stampede of the moment.  In any event, there wasn’t a 1994 world where I could have, for instance, somewhat easily incorporated 20+ drum loops into the drumless urgency of Lose It.  Or, within the span of one day, seen a documentary about Sly Stone, learned that the drum machine he used on If You Want Me To Stay was the Maestro Rhythm King, located and downloaded samples of all the Maestro Rhythm King sounds (for free) and started building a drum foundation underneath The Only Secret You Can Keep, a heretofore also drumless, mostly forgotten song I set aside decades ago.  That wasn’t the world these songs were born in.  In that world, digital was the cutting edge, but analog was still king; email was possibly a fad, phone calls and letters were legitimate communication; cell phones made phone calls portable, but weren’t portable super computers.  If you are reading this, you were probably there, so you don’t need me to tell you.  

I probably have a lot more to say about this collection, but think I may do so in future posts on a per song basis.  My mind is well into vault II – 9 songs already in various stages of completion and, as I always have been, I’m really only ever interested in what I’m working on now.  Got to get back to it – will post more soon.  Thank you for paying any of your precious attention to my work – I do truly appreciate it.