Playday with bouncy black balloons

Written by Carolyn Maheu/ Mark Sperling Carolyn Maheu Vocals

This was a problem child.. The other tracks fell together quickly but this was a slow burn. The chorus is far more uplifting than the verse - which reminds me of a melancholy hybrid of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' and the outro to the 70s British…

The last 6 months, I've been sight reading a Bach Chorale each morning (there are 400 of em!) and occasionally one sticks out that I really like. This one sounded great on the Wurlitzer, which is literally note for note playing the chorale…

Surf Metal!

A message to my children to be themselves no matter who that is. I will love them regardless

A story that is all too common. Healthcare tied to work is crazy! If you can't work because you are sick, you lose your job, and healthcare! How can that work!?

Sung by my wonderful daughter Alexandria.

He was told to act a certain way. Systematic Settings

Okay, just one more track. Did this one at the last second. I needed to end the album on a 'dancing around apartment like an idiot driving the downstairs neighbors crazy' sort of note.

Strange Times is an international collaboration between Roger Harris & myself. Roger initiated the idea with the first verse and chorus along with a chord progression. I added the last verse and took some liberty in producing this version…

I wrote this over a year ago and could not get it. the groove was too slow and so were my hands. well tzars better. the concept came from a friend comparing his new love with a ten round boxing match . I could not resist.

So, a song about today's World, first and foremost , without Greg Connor and his imput to push me on this song it would've happened. Thanks Greg, you're a star. It's in my will, Greg, a third of all the profits go to you ....... sorry promised…

I don't like this one. I had a really hard time singing it so I buried the vocal tracks in sauce and tried to forget they were there. I had a bridge section that I wrote lyrics for but I couldn't pull off the vocal. I turned it into guitarmonies…

Urgh, this song. Destined to be last on the April RPM Challenge album, not because it's a good closing number, but because it's crap and everyone will have stopped listening before they get this far. I started this on guitar. I set up a drum…

This one has potential but I don't think I pulled it off. It uses a gimmick I used once already this month where the drums are playing in one time signature (in this case it's 6/8) and the rest of the band is playing in another (7/8). I like…

3 tracks of prophet 12 desk module with effects in harmonic series tuning

Recorded for the April 2020 RPM challenge.