by Greg M | Apr 30, 2020 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
I can hardly believe it. Composition of my “ECM Album” project is completed, in an amazing 29 days. If I had dared to guesstimate how long it might take to write this, I would have said months. But that was before our current pandemic-enforced, work-at-home isolation....
by Greg M | Apr 10, 2020 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
My colleague Mark Seelig quotes a musician friend of his, regarding troubled times: “We have to make better music.” I couldn’t agree more, as I set out in my blog post The Artist’s Role in Culture. This planet is in the teeth of the worst pandemic since 1918,...
by Greg M | Dec 31, 2019 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
After a fairly quiet year and a half, activity in The Keep has really picked up in the last few months. I think it’s only coincidental that the timing matched my change of heart about participating in the marketplace… but, of course, I could be wrong… Guest...
by Greg M | Oct 21, 2019 | Releases, Working That Studio
A new collaboration piece of mine has just been released, marking my first appearance on the very cool Projekt label. Marco Billi records under the artist name jarguna. I discovered Marco’s music when my friend Nathan Youngblood appeared on his album Trapped, Vol. 1....
by Greg M | Mar 27, 2019 | Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
I have the pleasure of sharing another cool album, to which I got to contribute in a small way. My friend and musical kindred spirit Kris Tilbury started her Mirror of Dreams project in 2012. Kris is a singer and multi-instrumentalist, who contributed the back cover...
by Greg M | Jan 1, 2019 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
2018 was a transitional year, the beginning of what may be viewed as a fallow period. Not very much music work was done in ‘18, and I expect that several years will pass before I have anything to show for the extended research-and-development work that is now...