The first album -ri-solv – was released in March 2010.
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When I was 13 I thought the Waterboys and Mike Scott were the most amazing thing. I loved their loose passionate sound, the pounding piano and his VOICE!
So… I wrote my first and last ever piece of fan mail to Mike Scott.
Weeks later I received this back : )
I was 15 and in my first band. It made a huge impact on me. Someone who i admired greatly had just reached through the ether, via the old fashioned postal service, and given me a real sense that anything was possible. I could indeed be a musician : )
More than 20 years later after working in the music scene as a percussionist, touring with influential indie pop line up ‘machine translations’ nationally and internationally, I finally got around to developing my own work and I joined myspace.
Setting up my first online presence involved filling out the ‘Your influences’ section. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm Mike Scott……. hmmmmmmmm that card….. I ran down stairs to the treasure box in the garage, scrummaged through a number of boxes and …. there it was….
I walked back up stairs with it in my hand, remembering the impact it had had on me and…. thought… hmmmm I wonder if Mike Scott is on Myspace?
Yes he was : ) So i scanned the card and sent him a message and again received a lovely message back : ) ( which reminds me I must send him a copy of the completed album : )… )
Anyway in the process I noticed a young singer from NYC who Mike had discovered on myspace and given the support slot to the NYC Waterboys shows. Clare Burson. I loved the sound of her album ’Theives’ so I did some research on how it was produced and discovered Brian Siskind had co produced it. I heard his sounds and was blown away. There is something about his work which stands out. Its complex and yet spatial, carefully constructed and yet completely organic. He creates sounds you want to inhabit not just listen to from afar. I befriended him on myspace left a comment on his site thanking him for his gorgeous sounds.
Almost 12 months later I received a lovely message from him saying he was really enjoying my sounds and that he would like to come to Australia and produce a record! Once again that wonderful sense that anything was possible imbued my life and being. 12 months later we had made an album together. Completely via email and internet uploads. Files recorded uploaded listened to, tweaked, re recorded uploaded tweaked… conversations going back and forth on sounds, frequencies… I would wake at 3 in the morning and check my inbox…. or wake at 7am knowing it was afternoon in NYC and feeling like I had slept in.
It was an amazing time in which I learnt so much- ensconced in headphones marveling at the 3 dimensional spaces he was creating with my work.
So – ri-solv – is the result. I am proud of it. I think it is a beautiful album. I guess it’s the result of reaching out and having people reach back and make you feel like anything is possible : ) It is also about change, creativity as manifest transformation, love, loss, pantheism, mystical poetry, death and resolve. I hope you enjoy it. You can go to my web site and stream the whole album and download it for what ever you are capable of contributing – from zero to thousands : ) via pay pal. I give you the album and if you are capable of contributing to the making of the next one- it would be greatly appreciated : ) If cash is not something you have on hand but you would like to support my work then share it with your friends on facebook, myspace, twitter or your blog- etc.
LISTEN AND DOWNLOAD -ri-solv- HERE
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Oh and by the way I ended up being in contact with the Music Journalist via a review on Clare Burson’s work. It turned out he loved Mike Scott too and really likes my album and is going to do a piece about it for Pop Dose : )