This is an old, old work in progress that I thought I had completely lost.  I haven't heard this piece in probably 8 years.  I was writing it for a friend who was going through a hard time in her life then.

It was a work in progress... as such, it has a really long lead in. The song starts kicking in at about the 1 minute mark.

Lullaby for Agnes

This is another old track of mine when I was more prolific as it were.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.

Distant Land

I call this my "Brian Eno" track.  Close your eyes when you listen to this... I can virtually guarantee that your breathing and heart rate will slow.  It's very meditative I think.

This is the 1st track I'm releasing under the name IONdream. I call it "Expanse." It starts off with the weight of the world on your shoulders, but then takes off into joy. It's all synthesizer... no samples of "real" instruments other than the drums that come in later in the track.

I was infatuated with early synthesisers when I was young. I drove the older woman who co-owned New York Music crazy because I would ride my bike up there to hang around in the keyboard room playing with the assorted Korg, Yamaha, Roland, and whatever else they had that beeped and blooped. I certainly didn't have the money to buy any of those so that's the best I could do!

I was also interested early synth pioneers like Vangelis, Wendy Carlos, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre and others... fascinated by the new sounds they could put together.

I had been thinking about prime numbers (yes, I'm weird) and thought "what if I put down a track based on the first several primes... 2, 3, 5, 7, and 11." So, I looked at one octave on the keyboard and counted notes starting from C. It turned out to be C#, D, E, F#, G, and B. (Except that I miscounted and it should have been A#, but I didn't realize that until it was too late!)

That ended up putting me in a key of D Major. And this is what I came up with!

Expanse

A lot of times the music I write has a tendency to get what you might call cinematic. This is one of them!

I'm calling it "Lost in the Woods."

Lost in the Woods

OK here it is... the WORLD debut of the orchestral waltz I composed titled "Waltz of the Gingers (Beth's Waltz)."

It started out as a joke title as a certain group of friends have a long-standing inside joke about our friend Beth and her red hair (it's natural.) But then I started putting it together and it was actually turning out pretty good!

And now... here it is!

Waltz of the Gingers (Beth's Waltz)

I came across an old Recordisc in a Hollywood thrift store.  It's labeled "Rain or Shine" recorded by a man named Albert in 1940.

Recordisc was sort of a recording device that was essentially like a record player, but you put a soft blank disc in it and recorded your voice. Once you finished recording, you would place the blank in an oven to harden it to make the recording permanent.

The disc is in pretty rough shape but I cleaned it up as best I could.  I can upload the raw recording if anyone else wants to have a go at cleaning it up... just let me know.

IONdream

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