My 8th album, Futuristic Antiques, has just been released
My 8th album, Futuristic Antiques, has just been released.
It offers image inducing instrumentals alternating with Avante-pop vocal tracks. The cover artwork is by Todd Alcott.
Bay Window is the 1st of 13 tracks.
Futuristic Antiques Online Liner Notes
Cover artwork by Todd Alcott
More about Bay Window:
The tune for Bay Window has been playing in my head since I was around 8 years old. The new house our family moved into had a very large bay window in the living room. It was big enough for kids to stand in, play around, and dance. The original tune I heard in my childhood evolved into Bay Window.
Futuristic Antiques Online Liner Notes
Cover artwork by Todd Alcott
More about Purple Pajamas
I started singing “we’ve got the purple pajamas” in my head since I was around 6 years old. I had a Rat Patrol coloring book. When my Uncle Ken saw me coloring in it, he jokingly told me that the Afrika Korps soldiers wore purple pajamas. Well, I colored all of their uniforms purple and sang this to myself.
Futuristic Antiques Online Liner Notes
Cover artwork by Todd Alcott
More about Tasty Leftovers
This is made up of reheated, reworked, and refreshed bits and pieces from two tracks on my Depth of Feel album. Can you guess which two? It could be tricky since they have been combined, changed and added to as well.
Futuristic Antiques Online Liner Notes
Cover artwork by Todd Alcott
Keep Your Room Clean is the 4th of 13 tracks on Futuristic Antiques. Have you ever heard this? Have you ever said this?
More about Keep Your Room Clean
I heard the tune for this in my head back in the 1980s. I finally came up with suitable lyrics recently. Children and parents should be able to relate to this song very well.
Instrumentation: Drums, Bass, Guitar, Synthesizers, Piano, Vocals
I’ll continue online liner notes for other tracks on Futuristic Antiques in the coming days
More about Great Nation
I originally composed and recorded Great Nation in the mid 1980s. (I’ll put a link to a video of the original below the other links.)
I think that I improved the sound on the new version. I even added a bassoon solo.
Which version do you prefer?
More about Falling for You
I heard the lyrics for this in my head while driving home one day. It was sort of like they were hovering over the road and I wound up taking them home and then lots of music was just there to go along with them too. One of my musical goals is to have at least one of my songs covered by another artist or artists. It would be great if a powerful woman with a beautiful voice covered this song.
Another one of my musical goals is to have a composition played by a live orchestra. It would be wonderful to hear Following Cascades played in a concert hall.
Futuristic Antiques Online Liner Notes
Cover artwork by Todd Alcott
More about Kitty Mao
This is a little song that I find myself singing to all of our cats. They meow back and purr along too.
Instrumentation: Drums, Bass, Synthesizer, Marimba, Vocals, along with Meows and Purrs provided by special guest stars, the members of the Kitty Quintet – Piano, Sir Duke, Jett, Synthia, and Purrsimmon
I’ll continue online liner notes for other tracks on Futuristic Antiques in the coming days
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