new album, soon soon

over a year ago i started talking about my "first studio album." many obstacles, little blunders, and intermittent reflections and ruminations followed...

i started with an entirely different line up of songs. but the more time went by the more new material there was, and with the new material came better playing and better performances. better playing became better songs. i listen back to scratch tracks i made when i first started the project only to think "i'm so glad i didn't record THEN!" i'm so glad i waited. i have grown...

along with finding musicians when i knew none, i had to actually arrange the songs. and in case you haven't tried, arranging songs for instruments you've never played with is an experience that might be closely connected with hallucination. i had a software that would play me back the parts, but the first time i heard a real cello play my cello line, or a real flute play my flute line was quite a different experience. and understanding that it would all sound different when mixed was another piece of wisdom i didn't acquire until i got there.

deciding to be by own producer was also leap in the dark. in the end i had to have faith that even with little experience, that the heart that created the song would navigate me toward the finished product. that is what my album is about, and that's why i entitled it "the self-fulfilling prophecy." it is a line from "Deleted Scenes from the Fairytale" (track 7, auspicious number!).

"to see it finished you gotta be able to visualize it finished..."

it's currently being manufactured and it is due at my doorstep on May 20th.

more tracks to come...

love,
porter