Tuesday, June 24, 2014

More Leonard Cohen

As I'm reading Sylvie Simmons' excellent biography of Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man, I am reminded of this long-standing project I have of recording a tribute album of some of his songs. They have been such a huge influence and inspiration on my songwriting...Last fall I started to record some of the ones I'm planning on doing - little demos in my room and on my iphone...the sound wasn't so bad! Here is the first one I did, also the last one I learned:



The rest of them are on my SoundCloud page.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

A poem

I will set down my rings
And bracelets
Take off my shoes
And stand there before you
Bare
of all necessities
My fingers through the air
Like wands
Rods
of destiny
Weaving a tapestry out of the small corners of time
Each gesture drawing me further into this palpable mystery  -
Gathering of stardust
Echoes of the wind
My body a transient carrier for
Grace
          dance
                     light
And the vastness of love

- Los Angeles, May 14th, 2014

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Studio Time

Some photos from the studio, where I've been spending some time...and of my awesome collaborators: Yohei Shikano (engineering/production), Chris Carlone (drums), Daniel Seef (bass), Kaitlin Wolfberg (violin)- also on back up vocals, Bart Davenport, Rob Danson and Charlie Clark (not pictured), and on trumpet, Dayna Richards (also not pictured). It's brewing!...











All from my Instagram account.