I’m excited because I just finished recording a 10-song recording with a friend which I’m going to release within a day or two. It started out as a four song EP which I was going to add in instrumentation to, but it turned out I just kept coming up with songs I like, and eventually stuck with the totally stripped down sound of me playing guitar and singing and playing harmonica. Almost the entire album is composed of first takes as well and tops out around twenty eight minutes. The subject matter and emotional tone since my first IP [internet package] release, Growing Season, has - I feel - matured steadily. I’ve been especially pleased with my progress as a lyricist, and have begun to compose storylines instead of just songs, pieces with multiple characters and plotlines which create in some cases a more operatic dynamic. Anyway, it’s hard to analyze too closely your own products as an artist, but I feel like that accurately summarizes my own experiences of having gotten close to these songs over these past few weeks. As usual, all these songs are being donated to the Public Domain, through the same license which applies to the rest of my website - all five years of it (five years as of this month, actually).

Stay tuned!