Today: April 7th

Today is April 7th, little sweetheart. 

It’s your late big brother Jesse’s 52nd birthday. I know you two are together now to enjoy it and to make your celestial presence known to all of we who love and mourn you - that you’re both helping and comforting and guiding us to you. 

Today is also, quite purposefully, release day for In The Hours Left Until Dawn. We picked Jesse’s birthday especially for it - this journey both through the literal night and through the night of our lives toward the dawn of being again with our beloveds passed into The Forever. 

I’m sure I’ll be back to tell you of how the release unfolds and how it may resonant with others because your spirit so brightly touches everyone who lets it into their heart. Meantime, I’ll just say that I love you so very much, my little sweetheart. Forever!

Supporting WFMU

Little sweetheart, non-commercial, community and public radio have all been particular advocates of our music over the last decade from London’s Resonance to California’s KFJC to The Netherlands Radio Hoogeveen to France’s CAMP. They’re all quite different stations in their own right but all have in common that they are listener-supported and do not take corporate or even governmental funding. Individual listener contributions, often quite modest ones, are what keep them on the air. 

One of our greatest champions, little sweetheart, has been WFMU, who are currently in the midst of their annual fundraising “Marathon”. Most public radio stations give away prizes or “premiums” as gifts during the fundraising and, fervent listener-supporters ourselves, we’ve been honored this year to be included in all that. 

Two shows on WFMU have made our upcoming 11th album, In The Hours Left Until Dawn, a pledge prize (one of them a Grand Prize) as part of their efforts. It’s honor to help support WFMU and very kind of them, too, in letting more people know about our work - which is of, for and about YOU! 

Listen, little sweetheart, you’re on the radio!!
 

London Radio

Little sweetheart, we’ve been getting some really nice airplay over the last couple of years in the UK, especially via a London station that our friend Kris turned you and I on to - Resonance-FM. Remember listening to it in the kitchen at their flat in North London? 

Kris always thought our stuff would be good on some of their programming and a few years ago we reached out to them, around the time of Dream Together, I think. Four or five shows at the station have now become friends of ours, little sweetheart. Two shows with the word “sonic” in their titles - Sonic Imperfections (mostly experimental music) and Sonic Tapestries (mostly ambient music) are among them. Also, The Sound Projector - which is a show curated by the editor of the music zine of the same name and the storied experimental music group, Soviet France, who have a weekly show on Saturday night called “A Duck in a Tree”. 

All have previewed and/or premiered tracks from the upcoming album this month, little sweetheart, and another favorite, Fog Cast, devoted half the program to their own preview tonight. 

Listen, little sweetheart - you’re on the radio!
 

KFJC...

Little sweetheart, when Of Love and Loss first came out, we got a really nice review from Toronto’s Ground Control Magazine. The writer, Daryl Darko Barnett, later interviewed me and I found out he actually lived in NorCal. Over the next few years we got to be friends and he was often telling me about a great college station in Los Altos Hills - KFJC. He really thought they’d like our stuff and it was his - and I’d later discover - lots of NorCal folks favorite station. 

I routinely sent them new releases but never heard anything until one day when Daryl called me. He was driving around and he had the station on but he was in the mountains and it kept coming in and out but he heard them back announce us. He didn’t hear the song but he heard our name, little sweetheart. So, I looked up who was on air just then and it was Carson Street, kind of KFJC’s main deejay. 

I got in touch and he told me the station had loved Til Morning Is Nigh and that it had been in their Heavily Played Albums list. Carson, of course, has gone on to be a great friend and advocate of ours. It was he, little sweetheart, who did the three hour special about us in 2020 just before we released Deux Anges. 

Today, Carson and the station added In The Hours Left Until Dawn to the current library. The album doesn’t come out until April 7 but they have an advance copy and it should be on several shows before the week is even out. 

Listen, little sweetheart - you’re on the radio!  

Kind Words

Little sweetheart, like I was saying, the new album doesn’t release until April 7, but we’ve already gotten some lovely airplay and very kind words from WFMU’s legendary Irene Trudel to KFJC’s great Carson Street, from NSPR’s wonderful ambient music show Tapeta Lucida, to Italy’s White Light/White Heat music zine, who named it to their “Picks of the Week”. We’re very honored and grateful and, little sweetheart, it is, as ever, all for you. With all my love…
 

In The Hours Left Until Dawn

Little sweetheart, our 11th album is complete! I’d been tinkering with the mixes even into January but finally sent them off for mastering and then with the finished artwork to our CD manufacturer. The digital and CD versions will both come out the same day - April 7th (Jesse’s birthday). 

The album is another double-album - 22 tracks over two discs and 2 hours and is called In The Hours Left Until Dawn. 

As ever, it is very much for you and, as always, your soaring vocals weave their way throughout the journey. Advance copies will head to some radio stations and music from here to Europe and beyond. I’ll let you know what we hear. As ever, it’s so very much for you. 

With all my love.