Ah… well… the Lovely Carla and I, we turn away from the madness, and we chase imaginary rabbits down imaginary rabbit holes. Tom Petty called it, “Running Down a Dream.”  We are working on our music project, a new 9 song album, recorded, mixed, and now nearly mastered. It has been a long, meticulous, very detailed process. It is fun, and rewarding, and kind of exhausting. My partner and I are a chasing down some imaginary ideal, in a world where the ideal is a shimmery chimera always dancing just out of reach.

We are down to making decisions on how loud tracks are and how many seconds of silence work best between tracks. Yes. Silence. In this day and age of streaming services and playlists, maybe not the most important consideration. But if you are working on an album, a CD, who knows, maybe a future vinyl release, the amount of silence from one track to the next looms as an important, who knows, maybe a critcal thing. 

“Maybe for these two tracks 0 seconds works? Nice how one song segues right into the next one. Maybe 2 seconds between these tracks? Maybe 4 seconds for those two?”

Funny. Lost in the silence. We can fall into the gap between, and lose ourselves to the project. 

Not sure if anyone else on the planet will listen to these tracks quite as closely as we do. We, of course, hope so, but who knows?! We are truly deep down in the rabbit hole sifting thru all the little nuances and details. We do hope folks will give our album a listen, and will love it. We truly are “speaking our truth,” backed by a fabulous band of musicians. We think it’s the best work we’ve ever done, and we hope the world will embrace it with all of their attention & love too.

Anyway. Imaginary Rabbits. Imaginary Rabbit holes. We feel like we can get lost and hopefully found in the silence… – Jammer