"Long Way Up, Longer Way Down."

I've been in 3 bands in the last couple decades. The first, Judgement of Paris, was usually considered an "electronic" band even though we used a lot of acoustic/folk instruments like hammered dulcimer. The second was called Passage, a moody acoustic, goth-folk group that again used hammered dulcimer as the lead instrument. Then came Astronaut Wife, an electronic pop "girl group."

I intended for this set of 3 songs to be a kind of stylistic mash-up of all my previous bands. I will leave it to the 10 ten people who have actually heard all my old bands to decide whether I have succeeded.

As with the last one, this one was recorded and mixed on my Mac laptop using ProTools. Some of the elements were created in Reason and Ableton Live. Also Janey sings with me on all 3 tracks. The tracks are:

Song #1 - Away Too Long

For anyone who remembers the Astronaut Wife song "Cape Canaveral" I like to thing of this as a sequel to that song – only told from the male perspective and set 1000 years in the past. Seriously, it makes sense.

Song #2 - The Way You Leave

This one is the least gloomy of the 3. Beyond that, not quite sure how to describe it.

Song #3 - The Long Season

I actually wrote this song a billion years ago. In fact I remember playing a demo of it for some people at Flowers Studio several years ago. But then I put it away and never finished it. It seemed to really fit with some of this other new stuff so I dusted it off and am glad I did.

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