This was a song that never went anywhere, written for a video game that doesn’t exist. I guess you could consider it practicing. In writing the song I tried to convey the sense of an exotic adventure just opening up before you. I was thinking of travel to foreign lands under a faked passport, masked [...]

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Pencil Racer is alive and thriving on AddictingGames.com! Go there right now and play the game. I actually think it’s quite fun, and I’m super happy to have done the soundtrack:
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So here is how the song came to be:
Joel Breton, the executive producer on the game, met with me, showed me the old version of [...]

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This one literally came to me in a dream back in 2004. I had been living through a series of recurrent nightmares, the kind where you wake up before dawn, panting, covered in sweat. After a few weeks of this, things turned slightly better when I began running outside into our courtyard as soon as [...]

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Frank Zappa made a bunch of instrumental albums by chopping out solos from various live performances and stringing them together in his studio. It’s really kind of an amazing technique. (If you listen obsessively, like some of us here, you can sometimes even figure out which song he chopped the solo from).
This here is [...]

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Another song for the upcoming album project. This song is, to my ears, an unabashedly poppy love song. And that’s how I likes it!
I wrote it this summer in Russia, so it’s one of my more recent songs. We’ve been rehearsing it for the gig this Saturday, and – as with many other songs we’ve [...]

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