Armchair Metaphysics

Outside the mainstream and rejected by the avant-garde.  My own experience is music as a force of nature, not only as a figment of a corrupt human psyche. Because I come up with unusual project concepts and deeply embrace rare instruments and topics, most of the music I have created or helped to create over the [...]

  My ongoing infatuation with Ronnie James Dio is no secret. His golden roar and dedication to creative, expressive music for half-a-century has permeated my career mindset and my creative output, for instance my upcoming album Holy Flute.  I keep uncovering new treasures and revisiting old ones with renewed appreciation.  Shame on the Night: Discovering the Inner [...]

It is time for me to share with the select few of you who will read this a small and amusing secret that 3.5 million [update: the original post of this video had that many biews, it was taken down at some pojnt and then this one popped up later, only at ~200K views when I [...]

Solé "Skin Deep" debut album 1999 As musicians, we tend to judge another musician based on how much they've practiced, how creative they are, and how pleasant to be around they are, and most other attributes fall away to a distance, including but not limited to skin color, economic background, cultural heritage, and aesthetic sensibilities, [...]

Andrea Dezsö: Heart Embroidery www.andreadezso.com Today I got an article in my inbox from Derek Sivers--founder of CD Baby and general entrepreneurial, light-seeking , Gen-X musician-business-guidance-semi-guru--which you can read here. I liked what he said, and have been recently honing, consolidating, and focusing to a great extent myself, so the timing was nice.  This idea [...]