Ok, the first “real” post here. I feel like I’ve been waiting for years to get this project off the ground. And now it is beginning to take actual form. Maybe it’s a little bit backwards to get the website started before the first edition of Great Bliss is actually finished, but it’s providing some inspiration, and establishing some context for my creative process. I feel that it will be very useful to have this ongoing blog format as I navigate the strange turns of this project. I plan to do a lot of different things with it over the coming years, and you will be able to follow it all here.
I updated the “about” page to the right, for a little bit more info. Although it’s purposely vague, because I’m not really sure where this is all going to take me. All I know is that there is a hell of a lot of fire music inside of me, that needs to find a way into the light. I have been confused for a long time about where to put the bulk of my creative effort (music? writing? snapshots?), and I have done a lot in an uncommited, piecemeal fashion up to this point. In the last few years I’ve played a bunch of shows around Providence, written some words, started and quit a grad program in English, put out some records (most recently the Barnacled record on ESP-Disk’), but have been waiting to find something to really throw myself into. A couple months ago it hit me like a … you have to make a series of objects, under one name, that follows your true inspirations over time, wherever that may lead. I knew that the first edition would be a CD, but beyond that, I had no clue.
So lately I’ve been brushing up on recording skills and coming up with music for Great Bliss #1, as I contemplate the form that the project will take as a whole. The house is clean and ready to be a studio. My closet is emptied to make room for supplies and stock. In the past two days I’ve acquired a typewriter and a sewing machine. There are no excuses left in the world for me to not step forward and put myself into the shit.