by Greg M | Dec 30, 2023 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Following a largely-fallow 2022, ’23 saw several projects – both new and old – continuing to develop at their own leisurely pace, with one completed and newly-released. The common (and new) factor in nearly all these projects is that they are longform pieces. I’ve...
by Greg M | Feb 12, 2021 | The Creative Life, Working That Studio
Sandcat Lullaby A few years ago, my wife Daci and I heard a nice piece performed by the Chicago Symphony: In the South (Alassio), a concert overture by Sir Edward Elgar. Writing on vacation in Italy, Elgar made use of a Neapolitan folk song in a delightful episode led...
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 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 | 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...