by Greg M | May 20, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
Continuing the review of my most inspirational kindred spirits… Part 1: Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive, Lucette Bourdin. Part 2: Tingstad & Rumbel, Sequentia, Robert Rich. Part 3: Steve Brand, David Hykes, Pat Metheny. Yes Progressive rock is a strange...
by Greg M | May 7, 2019 | Intrinsic Beauty, The Creative Life
In the first installment of this series, I called out Arvo Pärt, Steve Roach, Jack or Jive and Lucette Bourdin for their inspiration. Here are three more of my kindred spirits. Eric Tingstad & Nancy Rumbel We go way back… I first discovered Eric’s solo guitar...
by Greg M | Mar 27, 2019 | Releases, The Creative Life, Working That Studio
I have the pleasure of sharing another cool album, to which I got to contribute in a small way. My friend and musical kindred spirit Kris Tilbury started her Mirror of Dreams project in 2012. Kris is a singer and multi-instrumentalist, who contributed the back cover...
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...