You’re invited…
to share an evening of great music with Julia Wade at the Watchfire Music Listening Room Concert Series on Thursday, September 16th, 7:30 pm on the Upper West Side of Manhattan!
Watchfire Music is proud to announce Julia Wade’s second show at the Watchfire Listening Room House Concert Series where she will perform new songs from her forthcoming CD, “Every Day”. To read about the CD, click here. (more…)
Here’s a guy I’ve worked with for several decades now. I play a decent acoustic guitar when my chops are together, but when I need a master guitarist, I call my friend Chieli (Key-eh-lee). If he’s not available, I change the session to when he is available.
He has a new and most exciting new CD that has just come out on Watchfire Music. If you want to get connected with some of the great music being written and played today, performed by all world-class musicians, download or purchase the CD, Without You, by Chieli Minucci and Special EFX now.
I’m writing you from inside the music. I suppose I’ll come out sometime, but I don’t know when. It’s pretty safe in here and I’ll have to admit, I rather like it and sometimes wonder if perhaps I just shouldn’t stay here the rest of my life.
I just spent the last 4 days immersed in the otherworld of notes and sound, strings and woodwinds, Logic and Kontakt, push and pull. ‘Immersed’ is a shallow description of where I have existed for the last 96 hours. ‘Lost’ is perhaps more accurate, but I can’t say I was ever lost, but rather ‘found’.
I came halfway out occasionally to grab a quick bite of something to eat or drink, check the Yankee game scores on espn.com, but even that would only be a quick half hour and the song would still be raging through my brain, the ideas still formulating, the desire to rush back into the studio and sketch the next 4 bars overwhelming.
I did sleep in spurts – far from my normal schedule – sometimes in mid afternoon, sometimes catching two hours at 8 and not knowing if it were PM or AM. I didn’t read my email; I did not answer the phone except to talk to the Missus who was away for 4 days. I did not go out. I simply lived in the music.
Even as I write I feel myself slipping out of that world and back into the normal one. I don’t like the feeling. It’s really good in there. There’s no pressure, no sense of time, no sense of place, no interruption of thought, only pure problem solving on the most creative plain. It’s 96 hours poured into 4 minutes and 30 seconds of song. It’s building a house from the bottom up. It’s a kind of madness perhaps, but an exquisite madness.
Perhaps I should explain myself, but to do that would be to further stand outside the experience and I’m not sure I really want to do that yet. But here goes. I’m orchestrating and sometimes composing a new album for Julia Wade. We’ve been really slow to start mainly because of her far too busy schedule and my own duties at Watchfire U. The CD is long overdue. She hasn’t done an album in a couple of years and that’s a sin.
How can a singer be too busy to do an album? Ridiculous! But I lived it. I saw it happen and I’m partly responsible. But cast the past aside; we’ve started – I think. I know I have and she promises to be not far behind – still clearing out a world of responsibilities.
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My son, Dustin and his lady friend, Lauren, took me to see Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland for Easter last night and I had a bit of a resurrection. I couldn’t take my eyes off the screen. I literally did not want to blink for fear of missing something.
Hats off to Mr. Burton and his fabulous international crew for making this picture. It could be the perfect story told in 3D. I fell right down the rabbit hole with that little girl and spent 2 delighted hours in Tim’s surrealistic dream.
The experience made me so grateful for my eyes, so grateful for this magical God-endowed gift called sight. What a trip – to be able to see! What a concept! When you really think about it, it’s our most precious gift besides simply being.
To be born blind must be one of life’s saddest tragedies, but to go blind must be even worse because then you know what you’re missing.
In the long run, what does it matter? Christianity’s biggest split seems to me to be was he or wasn’t he. Was Jesus God? Just doesn’t make sense. To me it seems like he was not.
Don’t mean to stir up a hornet’s nest here (or maybe I do), but I think a ton of people here got it wrong.
For my money, Jesus was the way-shower, the exemplar. He was sent here to be an example for us on the subject of how to live our lives. He was a human being just like us and that was the point. He showed us our potential – what we could be if we knew what he knew and practiced what he practiced.
He taught us how to think, how to treat our fellow man, how to heal, how to live.
Well, it’s truly just around the corner. I know we’ve been promising this for a long time now, but finally I can say for certain the immortal words, “Coming Soon!”
We’ve been talking about this widget/gadget/app for over a year now and I’m more than happy to report that we’re in the last stages of production. It’s so “done” that I’m finishing up the programming for each genre this coming week and you should see the first beta tests this April.
We’re excited here at WFM because you’ve been asking for this for some time now. People I speak to every day have said repeatedly, “I go to Watchfire Music every day just to listen to the samples.” This has actually been somewhat frustrating to me because as a composer/producer I want our customers and fans to hear the whole song – not just a 1:00 sample.
Peter Link, Creative Director of Watchfire Music, is the author of this blog. We'll be looking at all things inspirational, especially music. Read on and find out more about Inspiration on Planet Earth and beyond. And... you can also find out more about Peter at his personal Web site and also on the "About Peter Link" page below.
