In the early 2000s, MySpace was the de facto king of social media. This coincided with a PC that I special-ordered, containing all the best components (at the time) for me to produce music. The first of these releases was this EP.
Prior to production, I blasted out a MySpace blog requesting the ladies to request songs – I would fulfill the first three requests. The requested songs were “Who Knows” by Musiq, which I didn’t know at the time, plus “Can You Stand the Rain” and “Make it Real” which I knew well enough to play.
Of the recordings, “Can You Stand the Rain” received the most “hits”, and I still get good feedback about this.
So here’s a welcome back to this EP, which has seen its existence through MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and my various website iterations. Years later, there would be a “Volume 2”, and I’ll be re-releasing that soon as well.
11 years have passed since I recorded this album. In that time, I received a 2nd bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, bought a house, etc. A lot of life has happened during that timeframe.
And so looking back on this album, I was in essence a different person, or at least in a different station in life. And not a bad one. It was a prolific period of time for me – I was 32 and ready to take risks and move into bold directions in life and career.
That’s what I hear when I play this album: a person who is yearning to put himself into orbit, somehow and someway.
The real standout track, I feel, is the first one, “Serenity of the 3rd Kind”. This is not related to the Firefly ship, nor is it related to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Rather, it is literally about the state of mind of having found the calm amongst the chaos. And the “3rd kind” is actually a play on words: the semi-improvised song centers on third intervals!
And we’re back! Since 2008, this website has been through quite an evolution. This new version, in my view, will be the best representation of my music career – allowing past, present and future to be showcased.
Take a look around!
It’s a work in progress… At this point, I have only posted one album – Orbiter, my all-original 2010 piano instrumental album. This is intentional; it is re-release season. I will be unveiling several of my past albums between now and the end of December.
Obviously, I have implemented several more “bells and whistles” in this version of the website, but I won’t let that detract from the main focus: the music itself.