One Future Album

I've got an idea for an album which you, like my buddy and bassist Luke, will probably call a "concept album." I don't like the term for reasons I will discuss in the misty future, but here's the concept.

This L.P.'ll be composed of 9 songs, the first 4 laying out the ills of this livin the way we go about it today, and the final 4 songs presenting methods of transcending the ills and challenges and falsities we face. Song 5 will be a transition between the two main arcs of the song.

The songs on the album (and indeed, I think, eventually all of my songs) will form a web that reflects the shape of the internet. Both random and intentional recurrances and links will be scattered throughout the songs, drawing concepts and images together to create a larger frame of understanding and resonance.

Each song will have chiseled lyrics, I already have titles for each song, multiple drafts of each songs lyrics, and a few other structural ideas in place.

My strategy is this--I'm going to use this blog to keep gradually updating you about how this thing's coming along, letting out more n more information slow and unsteadily until I foment some curiousity about the contents therein. I'll be doing this as I figure out & implement innovative and potent methods of promoting the album. The promotion will get woven in there with the content of the lyrics somehows, and thus the lyrical themes and concept will become intertwined with the album's introduction to the world.

If you or anyone you know has ideas that line up with mine regarding this project, please do not hesitate to call 800-MINSTREL immediately--that's 1-800 ... not really--email me.