I know, I know, I said the last track I posted would be the final sneak peek at the new material. But hey, us artist types are a fickle, mercurial lot, so I changed my mind! After I recorded the newest track, "Enemy of the State," I decided that with its sharp contrasts between hard and soft, rough and smooth, as well as its more complex structure, that it would do a better job of representing for the new project while you're all waiting for me to finish and release it.You know how it goes...people make hasty judgments. Someone who's never heard of me could stop by and just listen to "Piston" and think that all I do is Bruce Hornsby-style jazzy piano tracks, or listen to "Wavelength" and assume I'm a techno/dance artist (which, on the whole, I'm not, really). The newest song falls more dead-center and represents me better as a whole, I think.
So as long as I've let another cat claw its way out of the bag ("Rawwwrrrrr!"), I might as well say a few words about the new song. "Enemy of the State" is, in some ways, almost a partial throwback to my progressive rock days. It's the first time I've used an odd time signature (the verses are in 7/4) since the Immovable Mover CD I put out in 2003, not to mention the orchestral strings. But I'd like to think that, having grown a lot since then, I can now do a more complex song like this without it coming across as all stiff and contrived and imitative of Rush or Yes or whatever.
Musicians will notice a lot of fretless bass on this song, more bass playing than I've done in probably half a year or more. I finally got around to working at setting up my Ibanez ATK fretless so that it plays more comfortably, and I found that it actually records pretty darned well for a somewhat battered relic scored off of eBay for $350. It's kind of nice to give a little TLC to what you have and get the most out of it instead of constantly throwing more cash at new toys (something I probably did a little too much of last year!).
So there you go, one last teaser track before I cloister myself away at Vector Labs again to record some additional new material and try to get this sucker wrapped up over the next few months.
Now if we could actually get some rough approximation of Summer happening here in Michigan, that would be a hell of a thing (it's June and I'm sitting here in a t-shirt and a hoodie, for crying out loud!). I have a suspicion that when it finally does hit, it's going to just get ungodly hot all of a sudden. But who knows...the weather can be just as fickle and mercurial as musicians and, like us, there's just no telling what it might do next.
Until next time, sports fans...
DV
