I don't know how ACB does it, but I barely if ever have time to blog, read other's blogs, or even reply to email. It seems sinful, somehow non-deductible. I used to spend 30-40 minutes a day surfing for new music on MySpace -- now? barely 20 minutes a week, if that. I barely have time to write my own music, see friends, find new material, work out ( Read more... )

As some of you know, one of my rare original treasures is a song I wrote on the lyrics of the poet Trumbull Stickney, called Mnemosyne. I had found Stickney's poem while browsing an Anthology of contemporary American poetry at a book store in San Francisco in spring 2007, and was immediately captured by its visceral intensity. The song composed ( Read more... )

My wife and I wrote a new song together -- to the lyrics of the great Russian poet Alexander Blok.

It was a fairly equal collaboration -- Inna came up with a perfectly gorgeous tune, which I tweaked through my usual proclivities, and added a short instrumental interlude. I've never re-written a tune before, especially something so perfect, and was ( Read more... )