Finally, more music is coming through! I just started a new studio song for the next
album...which is going to be relatively genre-defying...even more so
than usual. I find that as the general trend seems to be towards the
formulaic, my drive is to ignore all formulas. I've never understood
why everyone wants to sound like everyone else...but there are a lot
of things about humans I don't understand.
Aside from the odd
open mic and potentially busking, I've pretty much given up on the
notion of live performance (though that may change if I end up
working in Madison or some other larger city with broader tastes than
the place I'm at now), so I'm kind of going back to the pure art of
things in terms of recording. So what I'm coming up with seems to be
a blend of singer-songwriter, jazz, electronica, and things that have
no actual description attached to them. They sound like John
Ludi...who sounds like himself.
Still plugging away at the
Ludi & Fitzpatrick material...a full album's worth should be done
in the next few months. Another album consisting of the Calm the
Hell Down material should be happening at some point in the
not-too-distant future as well.
My ultimate goal for the
next couple/few years is to put together a career retrospective
representing what will be forty years of recording music...so I'll be
dipping into my archives and bringing out some of my older material.
Once I have a decent package of 12 or so albums, I'll plop them all
on thumb drives and send them out into the world...assuming we still
have a world at that juncture...increasingly hard to tell these
days.
On that note, another thing that I've given up on is
that notion that humanity will ever wake up and learn to live within
the gentle constraints of the natural world...we are stampeding in
the opposite direction...so these days my Big Lifelong Mission of
trying to open people's minds to such notions has been largely
discarded. I'm sure I'll continue to write songs about such things,
but they will be directed towards the alien archaeologists who will
translate my words thousands of years from now and say “he seems to
have been a bit of a difficult person, but he had a few insights here
and there...too bad he exploded along with the rest of them”.
So
that's where I am with the music right now. Hope you all are well.
Stop building and buying so much stuff...it won't actually
make you any happier...maybe have fewer kids: they face an
increasingly bleak future.
Etc.
