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 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...
by Greg M | May 19, 2020 | The Creative Life
(Score excerpt from O Remember Me (Like Unto the Sun), (c) 2020 by Greg Moorcroft. All rights reserved.) Brand confusion, aka “Bad Career Moves” can be the bane of an artist who wants to cover a lot of ground… too bad. Here we go: I’ve long...
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 | 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...