So the challenge now becomes how to transition out of the instrumental middle of the album, back into the regular songs. I saw two possible paths: breaking glass or smooth fade. Breaking glass would mean smashing into the second half, as it were, with a hard, in-your-face number. Problem is there are no real hard [...]

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What could come next except the middle of the album, the conceptual switching ground that I include almost pathologically as an homage to the Side A – Side B LPs of my youth?
This one has also gone through some changes that I find kind of interesting. It started life as a completely improvised piece created [...]

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Next up for your consideration is song #4. This is another one with some history. This song came to life in Russia almost four years ago, and started as a droney, meditative, acoustic guitar thing. In time it mutated into a bouncier piece with a touch of reggae in its DNA. Click here to listen [...]

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This one has been through a pretty public metamorphosis. For contrast: One year ago, raw and hard was the best I had. Fun to play, fun to make, but not entirely consistent with the spirit of the song, really. Click for the original post.
Months later, I was playing it with friends late at night, and [...]

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This album is collected from many years of songwriting, and most of these songs were in fact never meant to be recorded. I wrote them, well, just because. This has made assembling an album interesting, since I didn’t really start with a general theme or story behind the scenes.
Nevertheless, as if by magic, as I’ve [...]

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