Category: composing
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“Tape” is Rolling
I didn’t give myself a lot of time after I released ‘Night Tides’ to dive right back into composing. ‘Night Tides’ was a catharsis, an expunging of a tremendous amount of pent up emotion and grief. It was an album I had to make. I’m back now with intention, writing…
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The Value of Scaffolding
I have a real problem with the blank page. I would never make it as a writer. That empty expanse of void waiting for words… I feel that here but I’m not a writer so I just blather and I don’t worry too much about it. Music, my “thing”, is…
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Night Tides is in the Can
‘Night Tides’ is done and off to the distributor. The official release date is 3/21/2025 on the streaming services. The full album will be available for free on YouTube and for purchase on BandCamp the day before. The idea for Night Tides came about half-way through the process of making…
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Mixin’ and Fixin’
Mixing, at least for me, is that weird liminal space between the composing, recording, & producing phase of a project and actually getting the song mastered & released. It’s hard. You know you got to go through hellBefore you get to heaven ‘Jet Airliner’ – Paul Pena For the uninitiated,…
John M Davis 