by eyes cast down | Jul 19, 2013 | The Creative Life
This is cool: my buddy John Koch-Northrup, who runs the Relaxed Machinery music label, just posted an “instant interview” of 10 questions. I always have fun with this sort of thing (see my “Credo” post, which came about in a similar way), so I...
by eyes cast down | Apr 12, 2013 | Album Reviews, Releases
Updated April 21… Many thanks to John Shanahan (Hypnagogue), Chuck van Zyl (Star’s End) and Bert Strolenberg (Sonic Immersion) for their generous reviews of The Separate Ones! John writes: Given that the recording of The Separate Ones, the debut...
by eyes cast down | Feb 22, 2013 | Releases
My first album, The Separate Ones, is complete at last. What a joy. What a relief! The album’s release comes seven years (to the day) after composition began on the first piece, as music is (sorry to say) my very part-time vocation. All the clichés about a first...
by eyes cast down | Jan 2, 2013 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Three things are inevitable: death, taxes and year-end reviews… 2012. What a year it was! And it didn’t end early, after all… First of all, many thanks to everyone who supported my musical explorations this year. Whether it was attending (or helping facilitate) a live...
by eyes cast down | Oct 31, 2012 | Adventures in Living
It was time for another long weekend in the woods, so in mid-October we returned to the Tibetan Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center in Bloomington, IN, which we had gratefully discovered six months ago. Autumn is my favorite season, so this was the perfect time to be...