Unreleased Album From The Vault…
Fear The Monk was a song-oriented funky rock project. It always grooves and there’s some killer musicianship in there. It’s burnin’!
Fear The Monk was a song-oriented funky rock project. It always grooves and there’s some killer musicianship in there. It’s burnin’!
Six-String Saturday
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love.
Don’t follow me, ’cause I wouldn’t follow you.
On the one hand, I feel like I can’t take any credit for this piece because I didn’t play a lick of it. On the other hand, I spent a lot of time creating the rules that would compose this music in real-time.
This is my first attempt at composing generative music.
“Their minds seem like clean slates upon which we can write.”
-Dr. Cyril J. C. Kennedy and Dr. David Anchel on the benefits of electroshock therapy, 1948.
“I had just one goal–to stay alive until the next day…But it wasn’t just to survive, but to survive as me.”
-Mario Villani, survivor of four years in Argentina’s torture camps.
I wrote this for my nephew who is due to be born in 15 days.
Sorry.
If I could surrender and fall into the emptiness.
This song is about planning an exciting future with a fine woman.