the hut, philly

at king britt's studio for the last two days...cutting guitars for the "what are you afraid of" remix for the band 'west indian girl' from california for astralwerks. the band is named after a high powered strain of LSD from the sixties...so there music is like you might expect trippy but beautiful. our remix of 'what are you afraid of' is even more trippy, experimental, and heavy at the
same time. it's gonna be a hot remix!!! final mix in a week or so. re-mastered two tracks off of sister gertrude...they came out so much better this time around. so that album is finished and sent off to ropeadope....also, working on the 'dali projeckt' which i am composing music along with violinist gloria justen. we're working with video artist ricardo riveria (klip collective, W hotels) and dancer/choreographer danielle strawmier as well...gonna be amazing, and of course very trippy. show is friday april 1st at the philadelphia art museum.

masterwork

it's a crazy time. images of michael jackson in pajamas showing up for court late, iraq's continued crisis, saudi threats by us, bush ok'ing to pump oil out of alaskan wildlife refuge,...it goes on and on...and it's all just insanity. well, here in my small world in philly, the music goes on. yesterday we finished up the sister gertrude morgan album - king britt + i with mastering guru pete humphreys...amazing day that left me drained.

glad we can be putting together some music with sister gertrudes messages aimed at the world. our world needs to hear her. i think these original songs were recorded in mid 60's...and reached a very limited audience then...and even with the release of the original voice and tamborine songs - a very small market...but with this new re-interpretation release a chance for her voice to find a much wider audience to resonate and fill with hope. this beautiful important soon to be a classic record will be released in may 2005 on ropeadope records. and we hope it can do it's own little part to bring some light into the world, all from a voice that created a ripple in new orleans in the 60's. and this ripple still hasn't stopped because of the preservation hall jazz society, andy from ropeadope's belief, and king britts'+ my musical vision to lend to her voice.

this record also includes a song 'lets make a record' written by me and my longtime musical cohort+bassist barry meehan. i'm really happy
that barry could be a part of this amazing project with us!

(((oo)))