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Thursday, March 30, 2006

The Name

Crossing a huge intersection in Tribeca with Simon and Leigh, I suddenly got an idea for my album's title: "Depth of Perception." I really loved it -- you may see it in some ID3 tags -- I even registered the domain name depthofperception.com in anticipation of using it.

After I wrote "Something I Don't", I realized I finally had enough material for an album. It wasn't until then, when I put the songs into a single iTunes playlist, that I realized that the name had to be "Start Again Tomorrow."

I realized that somehow, despite how anarchic my songwriting had been, a very consistent theme connected all of the songs -- starting over. Looking at my life over the last couple years, it's really not a coincidence. . . .

So "Start Again Tomorrow" it was. Just a tid-bit of history for you :)
posted by Benjamin at 6:10 PM 3 comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Making a Record

My friend Jeff McCaffery said "I would rather call it a record than a CD — because it really is a record of you right now."

Sixteen months ago, it would have been almost impossible to imagine creating a full-length CD of my own original music, but here I am doing it - it feels amazing and frightening. Thanks to the friends that suggested I roll this blog to accompany the process.

Here is what is going to occupy every spare inch of my grey matter for the next six to nine months…

Start Again Tomorrow
  1. Start Again Tomorrow
  2. Put Up With Me
  3. Girl
  4. Fall
  5. Just for Now
  6. Rewind
  7. Something I Don't
  8. Childhood Places
  9. Walk Away
  10. Fields of Gold
  11. The Good Life

I will take the next week or two to catch you all up to what is done so far, and then it will be real-time madness. I don't know exactly what to expect this blog to be, but I'd love feedback, and perhaps to share some little previews with you along the way.

It's really bursting at the seams
Absorbing everything
The spectrum's a to z
posted by Benjamin at 10:27 PM 1 comments