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New Album release – It’s Already Started
With great pleasure and little fanfare I’m happy to announce the release of It’s Already Started. Arriving on Dec. 27, it’s the third Martin Blasick album of 2010.
It’s Already Started on bandcamp.com. Enjoy full song listens.
It’s Already Started started out as a song a week project inspired by internet sensation Jonathan Coulton. I posted these songs weekly and had a great time exploring internet promotions for the first time.
But to be true to myself I kept going back to the recordings and adding little nuances. The backbone of the album is my Samick Greg Bennett Royale guitar and bass. Being endorsed by them has been really great
The Omnichord became the main source of what would usually be keyboard sounds. I’d learned of it being used on some Bowie recordings. The time and ability to really explore meant the world to me. This is my first one man band album, playing real drums and the rest of the instruments myself.
The lyrics flowed without being pushed in any direction. Writing on the weekly schedule got me into what I call having the the open door to creativity. Without pushing any agenda the words capture where I was at that moment.
Also it was the chance to work with some of the greatest lyricists of all time, the great English romantic poets, Lord Byron, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. I set a poem of each of them to my own brand of songwriting. Every time I sing one of these poetry based songs I get a new meaning from the words. Something to explore further in the future to be sure.
I’m looking forward to taking these songs to the stage. House concerts and streaming internet broadcasts are venues I’m eager to perform in.
Depression Wins
I couldn’t in good conscience put up a holiday song before it’s actually December. The early Santas kinda bug me. So that’s why I’m putting “It’s Already Started” up this week. It’s really not depressing. Metaphysical. Depak Chopra’s new video has been replaying in my head. Metaphysics are a new way of looking at the same thing, at least for me. The thing that stuck in my brain is the idea that success should be natural and easy. The water always flows downhill following the simplist path moving with, rather than against, nature. Next week’s holiday fun should be posted in time because it’s already started. Get it? It’s Already Started.
It’s Already Started
I couldn’t let go
I can’t seem to hold on
The light turned green
Six or seven times the horns are blowings
I say to myself
Things are going to pick up real soon
I say to myself
Tomorrow’s gonna bring an end to this gloom
It’s already started
The game is in play
It’s already started
Tomorrow’s been set by yesterday
I try to break free
I keep going in circles
Each time around
I see the ways I misinterpret
I cast the first die
Set this train in motion in the rain
I look for the blame because I don’t
Want to hear my own name
Sometimes I get crazy
Sometimes I want to break everything I own
Sometimes I’ve got to fake my way
Just to make it through an ordinary day
It’s already started
The game is in play
It’s already started
Tomorrow’s been set by yesterday
Christmas vrs. Depression
I’m torn. I’ve got a metaphysical song almost done. But I wrote a note to the cdbaby podcast thanking them for their great shows. They wrote back and asked if I’ve got a holiday tune beacuse it might make it into their next podcast. The stuff of dreams. Podcast glory. So do I crank out the holiday number tonight and push the metaphysics back a week? Or do I stay the course and do the holiday song next week and risk missing out on my chance at rubbing shoulders with the intelligentsia of cdbaby?
Stay tuned to As The Hard Drive Spins….