This song is the first of the bonus tracks for "The Trick" EP that I wrote, sometime late last summer. I wanted to craft a narrative that could in no way be mistaken as autobiographical, because so many people kept asking me whether MEMOIRS OF A MANWHORE: THE REELING WALTZ OF A DRUNKEN LOTHARIO was actual autobiography (in short, no, it's not: first person does not equal confessional; just ask Edgar Allen Poe!). Also, I had been listening to Elizaveta's adaptations of clas

When I began writing new songs for "The Trick" EP, I'd started with an adaptation of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" and decided it would be fun to build a song cycle out of classical numbers. I'd only seen one other contemporary artist, Elizaveta, doing so, but I loved the results. One other piece I'd been playing since childhood was Rubinstein's "Romance," but I didn't know what story it should tell, other than the fact that it should be a love story. My friend, Ivan Chan,

My apologies for having just entered something like twelve ReverbNation contests in a row, thus ensuring a barrage of notifications in the twittersphere and FacebookWorld. As I mentioned earlier, I'll be devoting today to highlighting the new tracks on my new EP. Having taken care of tracks 1 & 2 -- the two new versions of "The Trick" -- I now move on to track three. This song is entitled "Gavotte With the Gods/Be Wary of Your Wishes." The music is adapted from one of Man

Getting this latest his EP to you was a bit of an arduous task with many stumbling blocks along the way; I had to switch engineer/producer and restart the mixing & mastering process after months and months. (It should have been on the market eight months ago. Let me just say that.) However, after much hard work with the various musicians involved (specifically vocalists J'ney Up, Jilly Sentino, and Lisa Sherman, and guitarist Tom Briant, keyboardist Adam Silverstein, and d