7 New Prototypes (and what’s next)
UPDATE: Album links at Spotify, Apple, etc.: https://tr.ee/pKG7ADOXFr
Today I submitted seven prototypes for global distribution. Since early June, life has been busier than usual, but I did manage to finish seven new tracks (though the seventh here is just a vocals-out version of the fourth).
The title is Prototypes from Volumes 2 and 3. Track listing:
1. And Those Glimmers (Prototype)
2. Pay Me to Daydream (Prototype)
3. Leaves Will Cushion the Fall (Prototype)
4. Under the Clang of Bells (Prototype)
5. 3AM in a Garden Apartment (Instrumental Prototype)
6. Wormhole of Love's Regret (Prototype)
7. Under the Clang of Bells (Instrumental Prototype)
These are already on Bandcamp, mostly in Prototypes Volume 2. “Pay Me to Daydream” is in Volume 3 (and is so far the only song in that volume).
Most of these songs have simple instrumentation with piano as the backing (or only) instrument. I’ll say more about them later—or you can read about them on Bandcamp—but another thing they have in common is that they are based on, or at least contain, ideas I’ve been meaning to do something with for a long time.
The oldest ideas here are from, I think, 1997: “Pay Me to Daydream” (an instrumental) and “Wormhole of Love’s Regret.” The “Wormhole“ lyrics are brand new, however.
I was new to songwriting in 1997. I’d been writing chamber music for a good while* but had not written lyrics and didn’t sing; I figured I’d need someone to handle those things for me. By around 1999, I was writing lyrics and singing.
(*Around that time, I was trying to focus on a sonata for cello and piano, which I didn’t finish due to my new songwriting distractions, but its core idea shows up in a recently written song that I hope to release in 2026. It also contains music I wrote in, I think, 1987.)
I’ll say more later about these and other songs. For now, I’ll note that I have a lot of music in the works. As usual, some of it is based on ideas I’ve been waiting a long time to get to and some of it is brand new. I’ve got about 35 to 40 songs lined up for the next couple of years. That might then bring to a close my Prototypes era.