Sunday, January 06, 2008

Somah's music

It's amazing how motivating avoidance can be. Instead of doing the many things I should be doing, I spent the day uploading the entire studio discography of Somah. I played with Somah between 1992 and 1998 and we came very close to making it in the music business. However, other forces were at work (namely dance, R&B, and rap virtually eliminating the market for our kind of music) and we were forced to retire in January 1998.

Now, on the 10th anniversary of Somah's demise, I've established a website on which the story of Somah is briefly told, and all three of our studio albums are available for streaming or download. Also included are some bonus tracks.

I guess I'm reliving my life as a musician this week.

So, to sum up:

Somah's music can be heard here.
Sigmund Blue's music can be heard here.
Todd Rooster's music can be heard here.
The Athens Fusion Collective's music can be heard here.
Danger Will Robinson's one and only show can be heard here.
My entire solo discography can be heard here.

That about covers it.

Sigmund Blue Remaster

I've finally done something I've wanted to do for years. I've remastered the album Sigmund Blue released back when we were all still together and living in Arkansas.

The album, Laundry Day, was a 15-song debut studio album that took considerable time and energy to record. We released it on MP3.com, which was promptly bought out and our album was no longer available for purchase. Furthermore, we were forced to cut two songs because MP3.com had restrictions on album length.

But most importantly, I've never been happy with the mastering job I did on Laundry Day. There were too many high-mids, too little compression/limiting, and whenever a dirty guitar would enter the mix the listener's ears hurt. So now I've fixed these problems (as well as I could) and thereby completed a little pet project I've been considering doing for about 6 years now.

I created an AcidPlanet page to share the Sigmund Blue album, since it isn't available anywhere else at this point. You can listen here. Enjoy!