Addendum
People are asking why I didn't talk about the actual Codgers on the Moon music. I intentionally avoided describing it because I did not want to influence people's first listening experience. Now that the CD is available I will go ahead and make a couple of points.
First off I have never made an album just for myself. While recording this, I have been very aware that I am telling people who I am based on where I go musically. I will be judged. It is like submitting a photograph to a dating web site. How I wish to be perceived is just as important as who I am.
With this album I want you think of me as intelligent but not stuffy. So there it is.
To do that, the album has to appear like it has a lot of man hours in it, a fastidious and delicate manipulation of tones and placement. I will not waste your time with minimalism. But it also needs a flippant quality of careless abandon. Emotional buttons can be difficult to push.
Give me a dozen gamelan players, take away their instruments and replace them with Stylophones. It doesn't sound like that but it is a very good idea for the next album.
Like gamelan music, Codgers has an awful lot of notes. More than are needed were I not set on impressing you. I doubt I will ever need that many notes again.
Codgers on the Moon is a stylistic concept album. It is not a collection of songs, it is a collection of different things to do with an idea. I just make the idea last for a long time thanks to what we composers call variations. Yes, it does all sound a bit alike because of that.
I doubt everyone will find it their favorite album, though some very well might. As usual, I do not write for everyone. But I do want you to be attracted to me on that imaginary dating site I mentioned earlier. I actually do like long walks on the beach.
People are asking why I didn't talk about the actual Codgers on the Moon music. I intentionally avoided describing it because I did not want to influence people's first listening experience. Now that the CD is available I will go ahead and make a couple of points.
First off I have never made an album just for myself. While recording this, I have been very aware that I am telling people who I am based on where I go musically. I will be judged. It is like submitting a photograph to a dating web site. How I wish to be perceived is just as important as who I am.
With this album I want you think of me as intelligent but not stuffy. So there it is.
To do that, the album has to appear like it has a lot of man hours in it, a fastidious and delicate manipulation of tones and placement. I will not waste your time with minimalism. But it also needs a flippant quality of careless abandon. Emotional buttons can be difficult to push.
Give me a dozen gamelan players, take away their instruments and replace them with Stylophones. It doesn't sound like that but it is a very good idea for the next album.
Like gamelan music, Codgers has an awful lot of notes. More than are needed were I not set on impressing you. I doubt I will ever need that many notes again.
Codgers on the Moon is a stylistic concept album. It is not a collection of songs, it is a collection of different things to do with an idea. I just make the idea last for a long time thanks to what we composers call variations. Yes, it does all sound a bit alike because of that.
I doubt everyone will find it their favorite album, though some very well might. As usual, I do not write for everyone. But I do want you to be attracted to me on that imaginary dating site I mentioned earlier. I actually do like long walks on the beach.