Mad schemes, crack pot dreams and I do update the blog now and then

Okay the blog has been a little bit dormant as of late, but all volcanoes erupt eventually (I'm looking at you Vesuvius). I figured it would be a good time to get everybody up to speed on what I've been up to and what I plan to be up to.

Frankly I've not been up to much. I'm a bit mind locked and going though a lot of personal change/growth. I do manage to make my shows... most of the time. But I've been a little bit depressed and not feeling all that ambitious. My personal life has been a train-wreck, but it's improving slowly but surely.

I do have a new collection in the works. But work is crawling along. It it very hard to work in the shadow of my last collection. In my humble and correct opinion “Shadow and Light” is my best work to date, yet I hope to surpass it.

Because people seem to be interested in what songs will be included on the next collection, let me give you the line up.

Lament of Ashes
Am I dreaming
Hell hounds on my trail
Starting over
Dance of the Edge of a Sword
Da Troof
The Path
Snake Charm Dance

In other news. I'm also planning a “Retrospective” release for 2010. This will include songs from, “Get Zorched”,”Songs in the Key of Green”, “The Sound of Red”, “Shades of Blue” and “Shadow and Light”. This will give new comers to the Zorch Experience a chance to get up to speed. If you are wondering why no songs from “Black and White” and “White and Black” are being included, well... let me give you the skinny on that.

I plan on yet another release, in which I re-record the songs from “Black and White” and “White and Black” that have evolved in to repertory standards. These will be just voice and guitar. But I feel both my sound and performances of these song has improved to the point a newer version is warranted. Once the new recording is available “Black and White” and “White and Black” will be deleted from the Zorch Catalog and no longer available for purchase

I also need to start playing some real life shows, and while I'm looking into local venues open to my kind of performances, odds are I'll end up on the road from time to time and perhaps I could end up in a city near you.