I have a hell of a lot of projects underway, some closer to completion than others.
Some are long overdue, like a weird little album called “Berlin”, that was conceived mostly in 2005, in Prenz Laurberg, the hippest part of Germany’s capitol city. This album got left behind when I returned to the states and began creating “The Unquiet and Apart”, and until this year, it sat collecting digital dust. But, in numerous studios and people’s houses on numerous continents throughout the year, I have fixed up the album, and I’m pleased to announce it’s discreet, almost sheepish release this fall.
Another imminent release is due from “Muller and Patton”, my good friends. We will release a CD AND DVD set entitled “The Jonathan and Bailey Companion”… featuring an audio disc of music that serves as a sort of addendum to our concept-record “Jonathan and Bailey”, and DVD featuring live performances with the San Carlos Choir in the Philippines, and short documentary about the unusual circumstances of the album’s making. Expect “The Jonathan and Bailey Companion” this Autumn as well.
Oh, but it doesn’t end there. Muller and Patton have completed the soundtrack album to the feature film “Deep Gold”, featuring twelve high energy pop-rock songs we wrote for the film. I’m not sure when it will be out, because it’s up to Bigfoot Entertainment how to time it’s release, as they wrap up the shooting of the film. Stay tuned, it may be ready sooner than you think.
It doesn’t end there, either… Other recordings, both of myself solo, and of the Muller and Patton Corporation are underway, and I have a few very exciting concerts lined up this Winter, which will be filmed….
AND I’m still tinkering with my first musical… more on that later….
Perhaps it was my own disorienting prolificacy that made me ill last week… what a shitty little bug I fell prey to! I feel much better now, but after a few days married to my toilet, I became pretty bummed out and homesick….
It was thoughts of home, and my family, that made think of this edition of “A Song I Wish I’d Written”. It’s a great old Gilbert and Sullivan tune, from the finale of the First Act of “The Pirates of Penzance”: “Hail Poetry”. It’s a favorite of my grandparents, and after big family feasts, my family and I have been known to sit around the table with sheet music and sing this piece together.
“Hail, Poetry, thou heaven-born maid!
Thou gildest e’en the pirate’s trade:
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
All hail, Divine Emollient!
For a family of aesthetes with no common religion, this is as close to worship as we get.
If you want to download this from itunes, and you do, choose the track “Finale: Act One” from the Original Cast Recording of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.
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