by Greg M | May 11, 2024 | The Creative Life
I created the tribute website LucetteBourdin.com in early 2020 after discovering that Lucette’s original site had disappeared and its domain registration had lapsed. Unhappily, the site has failed to engage Lucette’s community of listeners. So the time has...
by Greg M | Apr 22, 2024 | Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
My wife Daci told me for years that my Divinations album would work as a sort of Hallmark album, for helping babies sleep (what to speak of exhausted new mothers). All it needed was a nice sleeping baby photo on the cover to attract attention. I finally realized that...
by Greg M | Dec 30, 2023 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Following a largely-fallow 2022, ’23 saw several projects – both new and old – continuing to develop at their own leisurely pace, with one completed and newly-released. The common (and new) factor in nearly all these projects is that they are longform pieces. I’ve...
by Greg M | Aug 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m delighted to announce a new release, Fragments in the Maze, my second duo with Chris Russell. Five years in the making, our second album as a team is my first album not to be self-released. I’m thrilled to become a part of the venerable earthMANTRA...
by Greg M | Dec 27, 2022 | News, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
After a two-year frenzy of composition and recording activity, the dominant theme of 2022 was resting and recharging. As mentioned in my blog Tibetan Return: Melencholia and Comfort Music, I somehow or other got burned out, and needed a break. It ended up lasting six...
by Greg M | Apr 20, 2022 | Adventures in Living
Finally! After over eight years, I was able to return to a favorite old relaxing ground, the Tibetan-Mongolian Buddhist Cultural Center, near Bloomington, Indiana. My prior visit was the last week of October 2013. An exquisite laziness prevailed, the priority being to...
by Greg M | Jan 26, 2022 | Adventures in Living, News, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Finalizing the 12-String part for Vision Opening just before recording, Jan. 15/22. Photo by Daci. 2021 continued the strong momentum in composition from 2020, but with much more time for recording. That’s because Carving in Shadows, the vision-quest album in...
by Greg M | Dec 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
(Photo (c) 2021 by Jennifer New. Used with permission; all rights reserved.) Some album projects rise up spontaneously and fructify quickly from a fully-formed idea, without any warning. Divinations, We Once Were Lost and Personal Bhajan all happened that way. So it...
by Greg M | Feb 12, 2021 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Sandcat Lullaby A few years ago, my wife Daci and I heard a nice piece performed by the Chicago Symphony: In the South (Alassio), a concert overture by Sir Edward Elgar. Writing on vacation in Italy, Elgar made use of a Neapolitan folk song in a delightful episode led...
by Greg M | Dec 30, 2020 | Adventures in Living, News, Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
The COVID-19 pandemic alone was enough to make 2020 a hellish year for so many of us. So many thousands of loved ones have been lost. Our cultures have lost so many musical heroes (whether to the virus or otherwise): Neil Peart, Lyle Mays, Joseph Shabalala, Eddie van...