by Greg M | Jul 25, 2020 | Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
I am delighted to announce the upcoming release of a new EP, Sea of Fertility, featuring my singer friend Chako of Jack or Jive. To be released on Aug. 6, the EP consists of one piece, the 20-minute title track. My parts were recorded in one day in August 2015, with a...
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 16, 2020 | Album Reviews
Big Gratitude to Ron Schepper at Textura.org for his nice review of my lost pieces album We Once Were Lost. A highlight: The deepest dive arrives first in the form of “Abyssal,” a nearly half-hour epic of creeping ebb-and-flow Moorcroft developed from a 2005...
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 | Feb 1, 2020 | Releases
My 8th album, In the Eyes of Infinite Light, a duo with Mathias Grassow, is available now at my Bandcamp page. Its genesis was entirely unexpected – one of those wonderful turns of fortune. Mathias Grassow is a long-established artist with a huge catalog of over...