going dry
Many failed attempts at writing a ‘dry’ song on guitar and voice revealed my bad technique. So I…
wept
Before I move on to the 2000’s I have to mention the goth-rock-avante-jazz band that I helped found in 1986 and played in until 1993…
the blind piano tuner
jack sprinkle was a talented, blind piano technician that for years would tune our family’s small upright and make it sound like…
Backwards and Forwards
The further backward you can look, the further forward you are likely to see, it presciently read…
resonance
[1987] Resonance extends the direction of Animus with improvisation-based jazz compositions that…
Infrastructure to Nowhere
I’m hoping that all of this is like an empty auditorium before the show…
animus
[1986] One of the original albums on the then all home-grown, all-cassette label Carrier, Animus was an early foray into…
recycle bin
Sometimes the extra songs and sounds that were never placed within an album become like stray cats. They wander through the…
The Silence Before the Storm
OK, so I now have an avatar, an alter ego, a mascot, a mask, a doppelgänger. Through this medium I will speak in tongues…
tired of strawberry leaves
as Wept fell apart as all bands do, this song became a metaphor for distance – for that mad and meditative…