Hi Gang,

Hope all is well. I’ve been working in the studio a lot these days. Where it was once ground I only tread when ready to donate large swaths of time to it at once, I’ve been flexing the shorter muscles and jumping in for bits of time here and there. It’s been really great. The new songs are coming together. I’ve five on the studio block in various stages of arrangement, and three more that I’m getting the main guitar and vocal bits for.

These are all, at least at this point, going to be part of a new record that likely won’t be released until next year. After two years of limited shows, I’m ready to get back to gigging. I’ve been sending out submissions to all the local festival shows and looking for a place to play regularly. A residency I did a few years ago was great. Nice to have a musical home to go to weekly to throw down all the music.

As with Stereophile, the new tracks have been an exercise in me learning more about the art of audio engineering. The songwriting is where I’m most at home, not so much with the finer aspects of mixing. That said, I’m chuffed with the way it’s all coming together. In that spirit, I’m sending along a mix of Flicker, one of the new songs. This is a mix I finished just yesterday and listened down to this morning. Barring a couple of electric guitar bits, it’s all there. It’s set the standard for the rest of the tracks. Click the song title to have a listen. Hope ya dig…

Flicker

I praised the mighty light
And went back to work
Headphone free on the rolling sea
And off to work
I washed their bowls and filled their holes
Remembering
The mighty roots
St. Michael shoots
Pictures of the dream

Whatcha gonna do if we lose the light?
What if the game don’t turn out right?
What if we’re all wound up too tight?

A symphony in denim jeans
Shifting side to side
Off we go to hoe the row
And feed the blushing bride
The architects of disconnect
Who built the waking world
They printed paper saviours
For all the boys + girls

Whatcha gonna do if we lose the light?
What if the game don’t turn out right?
What if we’re all wound up too tight?
Flicker…

Now, the naked ape he grew the grape
A fence around the vine
He built to show the others
This right here is mine all mine
The Innocents they wondered
+ wept all through the night
For all the wayward angels
Who’d forgotten how to fly

Whatcha gonna do if we lose the light?
What if the game don’t turn out right?
What if we’re all wound up too tight?

Come down, said it come down
I wanna fade it out, I wanna fade it out

Whatcha gonna do if we lose the light?
What if the game don’t turn out right?
What if we’re all wound up too tight?
Flicker…