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Instrumental Record?

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I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately. Always a bad sign. Why? Because it means that you’re not happy, I think. I have a lot of “unfinished” songs sitting in a drawer right now, and I was thinking about the best way to finish the songs. I listened to some of the sketch recordings I made and I came to a conclusion: one way to finish all of these songs is to keep them instrumental. They range the gamut, stylistically, and not all of them even need words to stand – the melodies and instrumentation can hold themselves up as is. So I just might do that. It would be yet another non-Jay Mathes “project” that I’m a part of, but it might be worthwhile, especially considering it might give me more material to pitch to advertisers, TV, movies, and video games. Just a thought. I’ll keep you posted.

A Human Struggle for Recognition

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This morning, I had a little bit of time to think about why people blog. It was on my mind because I actually took some time today to read the blogs of a couple of good friends of mine. We don’t read our friends’ blogs (usually) because we already know what’s going on in their lives, how they feel about things, and how they’re continuing down this strange path of existence we call life.

The bottom line? We all struggle with a lot of different things, but there are common ones, too. Though there are obviously many reasons, I think blogging is motivated primarily by a desire to be recognized as a person, separate from everyone else. It’s a desire to find meaning behind why we’re alive; because if we’re all pretty much the same, we all live, we all die, we’re simply a part of the lineage of the human race, then what’s really the point?
Humans don’t just want to exist. They want to matter.
I don’t think that I blog because I’m searching for answers so much myself, but that I kind of hope that I can help other people cope with that struggle – that desire – and can move them in the direction of discovery for themselves…
My new album, Fundamental, really is the closest I’ve come so far to expressing this and other struggles common to the human experience in my music. If you haven’t yet, you should check it out, here:
To some of you, I know I still owe you copies of the album. I’ll try to make that happen this week. Sorry for the delay!