Woke up this morning with these lines in my head:

If you don’t like where you’re at, wait five minutes, like Michigan weather, it will change.

Odd. More odd that I feel inclined to share, in any event… moving on…

As some of you no doubt noticed by my tweets I spent the last week in Chicago, and came back Friday. As I rode the train I had a lot of time to think, and contemplate music. I listened to Steve Roach’s Dreamtime Return, Daniel Lanois’ Belladonna, a little Pat Metheny, and a little of Arvo Part’s Tabula Rasa, as I did so, I couldn’t help but think about music, my musical trajectory, and what’s next for me, musically.

As I’ve been casting off my fear of being branded a poet over the last couple months it’s really unleashed my creativity. I’ve been writing a lot, and been very inspired to do a podcast, or something regular that blends the spoken word, poetry piece with the musical piece. This is something that I’ve never done in any of my recorded work, but I’ve done a little bit in some of the bands I’ve been in.

It was with those concepts, Pat Metheny and Daniel Lanois fresh in my mind that I went into recording Saturday. The recording has been good so far, and I don’t know what will come out of the other end, but like with Olagra, both the band, and the recording, I continue trying to bridge the gap betwen my lyrical/poetry piece and my musical piece.

While I’ve loved the textural and sonic exploration of the ambient work, I’ve felt that it lacks an emotional link at times; a connection that I find very much in the work of Daniel Lanois, and Harold Budd, and that I’d like to be able to weave into my own work. This is something that I’ve been working on since 2003, and I’ve been able to achieve it in bands, but not my solo recorded work. So there’s also a bit of frustration that this emotive quality has remained so allusive in my solo work.

I’m off to a good start, and I hope to share some rough mixes here on the site before too long. I’ll keep you updated.

In other news, Huronic Minor live has been downloaded hundreds of times since Thursday night, so please keep downloading and sharing.

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