Introduction/Fater (monsoon version)

Please consider this an invitation to eavesdrop. It's a hobby of mine & about time the table was turned. It will be as though we're sitting together while I talk to myself & you check your email.

Whereas my 2020 Black Sparrow Press debut/closer Cuttings from the Tangle was more stanza-based, these posts are presented mostly in something I've just discovered called "paragraphs" which you may have seen in books or long-winded text messages. Here’s the syllabus:

1. MUSICAL DEPICTIONS are for those of you who've heard some of my recordings & possibly even purchased them. They’re recollections about cataloged tracks, but also unreleased strains & appropriated airs, which is just writing about either songs from my albums, abandoned demos, outtakes or covers with accompanying audio.

2. INTERNAL DESCRIPTIONS are mostly non-musical & more like me interviewing myself sideways into an investigative puff piece, i.e contemplations on the wondrous bruise of living.

3. EXTERNAL CHARACTERIZATIONS are bulletins from & about my present location where I navigate universal property lines & situational boundaries to point out the fauna in the flora as witnessed safely from factual imagination, i.e reports on my immediate surroundings.

4. REAR-VIEW REFLECTIONS is the heading headed to where travel recollections end up, or touring postcards sent from the road to nowhere.

In addition to the songs in MUSICAL DEPICTIONS, there are also scored read-alongs called oneiric compositions in all categories.

5. — à la carte — is a condensed menu of all the unreleased music that was originally posted with wherefores, but presented here sans the discourse — in other words, just the music, listed by year.

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My first offering is an outtake of a song entitled "Fater" recorded in 1995 at Wavelab Studio in Tucson AZ as a monsoon was taking hold. The official version for the out-of-print-upon-release album on MCA, Devotion & Doubt, was a second take. This first attempt became an unplanned duet with an uninvited guest pounding outside to get in like a locked-out ex who just wants to know why you haven't called them back. The result — Fater (monsoon version):