by Greg M | Feb 18, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
As anyone who has attended one or two of them knows well, a Steve Roach concert is much more than a music performance. It’s a ritual gathering of kindred spirits from far and wide. Our friend, uber-connoisseur and prolific reviewer Richard Gürtler made the trip from...
by Greg M | Feb 17, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
My February 2015 trip to Tucson, to hear Steve Roach live for the first time, should have been documented, but somehow was not. I didn’t even think to take my camera with me, and my impressions faded before I could try to give them written form. This suggests to me,...
by Greg M | Feb 15, 2018 | Adventures in Living, The Creative Life
To celebrate Steve Roach’s birthday on Feb. 16, here again is my interview with him, published on Feb. 16, 2011. This all comes in the afterglow of Steve’s three extraordinary performances in Tucson, Feb. 9-11. My two-part report on that trip, the music...
by Greg M | Jan 3, 2018 | News, Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
2017 could be summed up in large part as The Philadelphia Year. Much of the year’s activity grew out of my two performances there in October. Without some determination – and a lot of good fortune – it would have been an off year. The Keep was more-or-less...
by Greg M | Dec 22, 2017 | Airplay, Releases
First of all, Merry Christmas and Happy 2018 to all, with big thanks for your support! Airplay gratitude to Diana Smethurst (aka Gypsywitch), who has been playing the music on her Radio Spiral program Around the Campfire. In the past few weeks, she has played (1)...
by Greg M | Nov 28, 2017 | Airplay, Releases
Among so many other things to be grateful for this season, I’ve been fortunate to receive lots of airplay from SomaFM in the past week. Along with all seven pieces from The White Island, Soma’s DroneZone (which premiered the album on its release), also played At This...
by Greg M | Nov 7, 2017 | Airplay, Album Reviews, Releases
Big thanks to a couple of old friends and one new one, for bringing music from The White Island to more listeners: Both Renée Blanche of Night Tides and Scott Raymond of Secret Music aired my fretless/EBow piece The Four Directions Seemed Aflame on Nov. 5. Both Scott...
by Greg M | Nov 4, 2017 | Airplay, Releases
Big thanks to the following for playing music from The White Island : Renée Blanche of Night Tides, who played Mirage Three, and Steve & Chrissie Sheppard of One World Music Radio, who played Submerge. Renée has been playing the music from the first album on, and...
by Greg M | Oct 21, 2017 | Airplay, Releases
Many thanks to producers Stephen Hill and Steve Davis of Hearts of Space radio, for including a piece from The White Island in a program of theirs. “The Gathering Dark”, which will be broadcast this week, includes Mirage One, along with music by Jeff...
by Greg M | Oct 19, 2017 | News, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Short version: Both performances were a total success! Everything sounded good and the audiences loved it all. This was, unquestionably, the highlight of my performance career so far. Details: My first visit to Philadelphia, and to St. Mary’s Church in Hamilton...