I should have posted a link here a while ago for these excerpts. If you go to my myspace page, you can hear seven minute excerpts of all four pieces, summer of '68, autumnal sun, winter blue, and the forever spring.

That is the good news. 

The bad news?

Each piece evolves and gets much better in the last eight minutes of each!! So you will have to buy the cd. 

But I assure you it will be money well spent.

In any case, enjoy the excerpts.

UPDATE: You can now hear the whole pieces at DilettanteMusic.com . You will of course want to purchase the cd for the fullest fidelity, but these are fine.

Our label, Tangerine Sky Interactive, hired Rasputin's to display a large banner image of the seasons' cd cover outside the stores in Berkeley and San Francisco for a couple months.

Well, it seems to have caught someone's eye. It had been stolen by the next morning. We are flattered, but hope the miscreants at least returned to buy a copy of the cd during daylight hours. I wonder if some frat boys have it up in their living room today.

Mark Tucker
Fame Magazine

I reviewed Knox Bronson’s Pop Down the Years a little while back (here) and Seasons has followed with gratifying swiftness but also with an almost shockingly rapid maturation. Completely instrumental in a slow languid pace that urges the listener to relax and luxuriate, where Pop was quirky, interesting, and prog-oriented, Seasons is chambery in the Impressionist sense with tantalizing echoes of Eno (Summer of ‘68 uses the intriguing slow hooning of Discreet Music), Peter Baumann (ca Transharmonic Nights), Peter Michael Hamel, a tranked-out Terry Riley, and the more sensual of the electronicists.

The disc contains just four long songs for an hour’s submersion in intelligent, slow, spare processionals and ambiences. Michael Hoenig peeks out occasionally from Autumnal Sun, though the estimable German never wrote like Bronson does, slowly shifting in sound fields, coloration, and environmental palette. The attention to perfection here is bracing, resulting in a piece of spacey furniture music, high art wanting for nothing, content to take its time in seeping through the speakers and into cerebellums. Mix the hedonism of the Ibiza crowd with the seriousness of old Brit/Kraut ventures, then add a sprinkling of the silently uncanny ideas of Vidna Obmana, and you have a starting point.

Despite the fact that the quartet of songs was composed during a dark period in the writer’s life, every minute of Seasons sparkles. Even the moody segments have a shine and glow lifting them above the melancholy, indicative of the redemption art brings. The entire enterprise is pensive but never existentialist, remarkably zen in many ways, unattached to judgementalism, formula, and tradition. A goodly portion of the entirety is Debussy-esque, borrowing heavily from tone poem concepts for heady textures and gestures nailing down authenticity in genteel certainties alongside intriguing ambiguity. Pore over the progressive, electronica, and ambient catalogues as you will, you’re not likely to find very many releases to stand with this one.

Well, as the release of Pop Down The Years approaches, I keep thinking about ways to share the music ... in hopes you will buy a copy on iTunes, or wherever! Here is a video I made from a horrendously bad - you know the kind that's so bad it's good - sci-fi movie from the sixties, probably financed by dentists in hopes they could bang a hot actress or two ...

See it on the front page or in the video section ... or ... sodden thought ... here:

At long last, actual cds of Pop Down The Years are available on CDBABY for those of you who want a physical artifact. For those of you who are happy with the purity of the digital realm, you can get the whole cd on iTunes here. The cd is also available on eMusic.com if you want non-DRM-ed mp3s.

Whip out your credit cards, kids.

My sweet friend Candy came to look at the site at my behest, as I prepare for the official launch of the site on November 10. I have asked friends for comments, suggestions, feedback, etc.

And then she posted a comment on this item, which was at the time, sample content in Latin with the headline, "Newsflash 1." And it was such a sweet comment that I didn't want to lose it. So I've just changed the headline and the content to accompany her lovely comment.

It's like when you open a business and you get your first dollar, but better.