Which is an overly dramatic way of saying that my album Lacrimosa turns 10 years old today.  I listened to it all the way through sometime in the Fall last year and had a few things I could take away from the experience:
-The recording is rougher than I would have thought.  I think I could do better today.
-I hate the sound of my voice.  Also it hasn’t changed much in the last decade, I suppose.
-Compositionally and sonically I think there are some things in there of which I can be really proud.
-I’m also proud of all the technical limitations I overcame in making this album.
-Thematically, things haven’t changed much and I realize that I have quite a lot of growth left to do.

This past year I started getting back into playing piano and guitar more, and I have a special treat: I made a little video playing “Leftover People” using my mom’s guitar:

Listen (or buy) Lacrimosa here, I made a special sale price of $5.  I was ahead of the curve with cassettes, and honestly I had a hard time giving them away: no one wanted them, sadly.  They’re still available, but if you buy a cassette I’ll have to run to my storage unit to fish out some copies and I honestly don’t want to do that right now.  I went back through some old photos and came up with the original album art (from 2011, with a bonus: you can see the Teac A2340RS that I used to record everything), plus the promotional pictures I shot for the album release in 2013.  Enjoy!