"New" CD

Recorded last summer in an illegal loft in Flatbush and now available via CDBaby, my album Blinking has been out for a few months now. You can buy it at the CD Baby site: www.cdbaby.com/matteverett

Of course an album is rarely new to its creator. I've noticed that some music biographies will narrate events like this:

"What happened? Well, then they went into the studio and recorded ten new songs."

Fun though the studio may be, this isn't really how things happen. Somewhere in there, through a sometimes lengthy and torturous process (especially for neighbors and loved ones), songs were actually written. The studio is generally a pleasant afterthought, a dreamy idyll compared to what has come before, this business of coming up with stuff, a business mostly incompatible with the tiresome necessities of drinking, dating, having drug problems, etc. It seems like there should be an interesting way to write about this process of writing, rewriting, rearranging, growing and changing opinions, etc. Otherwise we really have no idea why "Armed Forces" sounds so different from "My Aim Is True."

Of course, if you can more or less live in the studio that changes things a little. The detailed accounts of the Beatles' sessions in Abbey Road are endlessly fascinating. Well, to us music nerds they are, anyway.

Blinking has gotten some airplay on the Pipeline radio show that airs every Tuesday night, 8-10 PM E.S.T. on WMBR 88.1 (http://oscillations.org/pipeline/whats-pipeline) and on the Psyche van het Folk program of Radio Centraal out of Antwerp (read the corresponding lukewarm review at psychevanhetfolk.homestead.com). Possibly elsewhere I don't know about. Most importantly to me thus far, George Parsons has written it a nice review that will be appearing in the next issue of his estimable Dream magazine: http://www.dreamgeo.com/ This site has lots of reviews, interesting links, and the magazines themselves are filled with more of the same plus stories, cartoons, and interviews, most of which come around to being about dreams.