Tonight I'm finalizing the production of my new (and first) album release. It is entitled "vocation" and includes some of the samples from my site. This album is a collection of recently recorded compositions (within the past 6 months). It is a solo effort in that I play all of the instruments: piano, electric piano, synth, trumpet, and guitars. I also included some sampled drum and bass effects to hold it all together. Next time however, I would like to record with some other live musicians.
"Vocation" is an appropriate title for this effort because this is how I view my musical direction right now. Music is not my profession, nor is it just a hobby or even a passion. It is my vocation. It is something I feel I was called to do and I have just recently fully embraced it as a way to express my experiences, emotions, thoughts, and hope for the future.
I decided to put together this album as a way to mark a point in time in my development. I hope that it can become a way for others to get to know me and what I am about musically. This music is heavily jazz influenced, but it is not jazz. It's not rock, funk, avant-garde or electronica either. I seem to come up with more descriptions of what it isn't than what it is (or should be). Whatever you want to call it, "vocation" is where my head is at right now. Creative, eclectic, contemporary, instrumental music for the year Two Thousand and Eight. I hope you enjoy it.
The pressed CD's should be shipped to me within a week or so. Soon after that I hope to have it on CDbaby, iTunes, Rhapsody, and others. Stay tuned for the release announcement.
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