And...after a long silence....To catch you up on 2012 --- whew, what a year of personal change (all with positive intent) and a year for different musical endeavors. I released four recordings in 2012 - first, with Amphibialien ...  As the title would suggest, this is not your average Lady Gaga or Maroon 5 type of commercial offering - this is just plain out out... an experimental journey of live sound manipulations.  This follows in the tradition of Otherworldly Natural, Under Canopy, and Curved Infinity.  Most sounds were gathered on the coastal areas of our previous home, Sarasota Florida.  The frogs is a tongue in cheek reference to the possibility that they are simply spies for alien beings - hey, Stephen King lived around the corner - maybe he could run with that concept.  The album cover is incredible - it is a photograph that my daughter, Alina, took with her trusty magical vision and a camera.  We had plenty of frogs as models in Florida.  The photo is cropped to either appear as a frog, or if you use your imagination, an alien...

The second and third releases, Last Light and Hypnoforce, are kindred spirits as I continue to explore mutations of sound via granulars, impulse modeling, spatials, fractals, etc.  The use of the iPhone app Thumbjam is prominent on many of the tunes - again, a beautiful piece of technology.  I've inserted hundreds of one-shots from ethnic loops and samples, along with performed one-shots into the app to create an arsenal of rhythmic possibilities and timbres.  I encourage my experimental musician friends to explore this pathway.  This recording is a cousin of Zxotica and parts of Blue Fusion.   Hypnoforce represents the first recording since moving to Texas, so it is kind of a "marker" personally.

And finally, just to make a point, Jupiteroctopi was released on December 21, 2012 or 12-21-12.  According to wikipedia (the end-all in precise information) before 12-21-12, Jupiteroctopi was the only release in the world scheduled for that date.  I figured since I could not put out the highest selling recording of all time, I might as well put out the last recording in this chapter of Earth.  Well, the poles didn't shift, but at least I get to tell you about this thrilling adventure... ;-P  Jupiteroctopi starts where Medicating The Shaman left off...percussion, more percussion, and more(r) percussion, electric guitars, string bass, and about 45 other instruments... It follows the tradition of X, Spirit Amalgam, Subterranean Flame, Voyage Exotique and Forgotten & Imminent.

Amphibialien  1/2012

Last Light   4/2012

Hypnoforce   9/2012

Jupiteroctopi   12/21/2012