Girl Songs and Other Sketches

“Girl Songs and Other Sketches” (2000) was the first CD that I produced. It is a collection of original, mostly-short pieces and sketches. A number of the sketches were inspired by females I loved. There are as-yet-published girl-songs. Hopefully, the unpublished tributes will appear as Volume 2.

Several of these tunes (Travelin’, Better Now, Manhattan Midnight, PsychoPop, Don’t Let Go, and Do-Wa) were written before I obtained my first music-computer. These pieces were originally recorded as MIDI onto my Alesis MMT-8. I later captured audio from the MIDI performances as Hi-Fi audio onto VCR tape. I dubbed them from VCR audio to the computer when I assembled Girl Songs in 2000.

The accompanying CD cover graphic features a younger, thinner, and less white-haired version of me. In retrospect, I am not sure why I didn’t engage several attractive female models to enhance the CD’s cover. We’ll leave that for Volume 2, I suppose… :-). The CD liner-notes include a list of the keyboards, musical-equipment, and computer-software and hardware that I used to record the CD.