by Greg M | Mar 22, 2018 | Releases
Pastimes of Creation will be released on Mar. 24. Early responses are all enthusiastic, and the Mar. 21 Album Premiere on Radio Spiral was a triumph. Big gratitude to host Diana Smethurst (Gypsywitch), all listeners and chatroom friends. It was a wonderful two hours,...
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 eyes cast down | Feb 22, 2013 | Releases
My first album, The Separate Ones, is complete at last. What a joy. What a relief! The album’s release comes seven years (to the day) after composition began on the first piece, as music is (sorry to say) my very part-time vocation. All the clichés about a first...
by eyes cast down | Apr 29, 2012 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
To get this month started on a hectic note (or cluster thereof), I played two live shows, bookending the week. They were: Sunday, April 1 at one of the empty storefronts in downtown Chicago which have been converted into temporary visual arts studios; and Saturday,...
by eyes cast down | Feb 15, 2012 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
As I wrote in my blog entry American Dreaming, 2011 was in some ways a lost year for me, due to circumstances around my immigration to the USA, which stranded me in Toronto and separated me from my wife for nine months. In musical terms, I made the best of it by...