Sweet Blessing
Sweet Blessing is the opening track off the D’ville EP .Memories flicker between yearning, sorrow, and hope at the moment you realize your…
alternative-rock
d’ville
[2022] A collection of song-stories from a small town where dark secrets appear in half-remembered dreams…
Emilio GS: More + The Time We Were
More, is an alternative pop collaboration with talented composer and instrumentalist Emilio GS from Madrid, Spain
jh0st talks: sun*load darkstars EP
It wasn’t until 30 years had passed that we would have the chance to sit down and create some tunes. The result is a powerful concoction of sounds that blend the goth and post-rock…
sun*load: Thin White Horses
At that moment, I glimpsed the distinct features of David Bowie’s face beneath the wide-brimmed fedora…
jh0st talks: Gryflet – Beyond the Unknown
Gryflet is a world-within-a-world: a vast, epic sound that Nuno, myself, and other collaborators could occupy, explore, and…
My Fallen Twin – sun*load
My Fallen Twin is a 90s darkwave influenced collab with sun*load: We have a vision of our ourselves, a kind of ideal light. Through mythology…
Frank Baker: Giving In
Then there’s artists like Frank Baker. His online presence is scant, albums appear for a few months, then whole catalogs disappear into the ether…
Gryflet and the Mile High Club
Many people have fantasies about getting it on in an airplane bathroom. I’m not sure why: they’re small, brightly lit, and sometimes…
b3nd3r
Just as houses like 16:16 haunted the music, the asbestos shingled hovel at 295 Beacon street in Somerville, Massachusetts (or as some of…
B3ND3R: starting over again
I’ve gone on about being addicted to Reverb, my drug of choice. My previous recordings and collaborations were drenched with…
statik 3
[1993] After years of playing ambient jazz and new wave, the alternative folk single Statik 3 released in 1993 remains an anomaly…
statik 2
[1992] My musical mentor from my teenage years, the late George Horan taught me that navigating the elusive difference between…
half asleep
Under the collective roof of 1616, my private bedroom was right off the public living room: its door revealed a still-life of the late-night: dreams and insomnia, insecurity and creativity…
statik 1
[1989] “I’m dead” proclaimed my old friend Brian Johnston aka Ireverend Brainskan. It was the summer of 1988 after one of his last…
tired of strawberry leaves
And as Wept fell apart as all bands do, this song became a metaphor for distance – for that mad and meditative commute between two vastly different…
going dry
Many failed attempts at writing a ‘dry’ song on guitar and voice revealed my bad technique. So I turned my back on the gilded god of reverb, bowed and gazed at my shoes like any…
wept
Before I move on to the 2000’s I have to mention the goth-rock-avante-jazz band that I helped found in 1986 and played in until 1993…
recycle bin
Sometimes the extra songs and sounds that were never placed within an album become like stray cats. They wander through the…