Over a year from inception to today's release Finch! has arrived. This is my latest CD and by far one of the toughest projects I have undertaken. Part of that was the concept behind Finch!, it was to celebrate my life with my wife Karen and our 20 years together. It was to be released today, on our 20th anniversary. The second reason was that I intended to create every original composition as a piece of music that Karen would want to buy herself, and it had to inspire her and be inspired by her. Today the proof in the pudding so to speak, as Finch! has arrived.

Containing nine tracks and a couple of firsts for me, the CD contains a track that is a reprise, my first ever. This was not a throw away bit rescued for posterity, but rather I found myself reworking the song before I realized it was one and the same. Liking both the longer original and the fuller reprise it ends the CD. As well there are three tracks that made me realize that the potential for more lengthy orchestrated works may be in my future. In the end creating Finch! as a gift of gratitude for the woman who has inspired me to strive for better, has inspired me to continue to reach outward musically.

Check out the samples at my website, and buy a copy.

Way back when, in the mid-eighties, I was very active within the Canadian music industry but only recently have I been inspired to create new material at the rate I did back then. It has been almost as if an unseen writer's block that had settled slowly over the years has suddenly evaporated. New sounds and energy are flowing through my head again and the advice given to me by a friend that I should "complete a song every day, some will be good, some bad, but a song a day teaches you to be a song writer" has come home to roost. Today was the first day in years where I sat down and started a new melody and finished the song completely.

So this bird brain has decided that a new CD is on the way and will be a loosely based concept album that traces the changes and stations in a normal day of Karen, my wife, called Finch! The new CD will be available February 14th, 2011, with 13 tracks all having a new age / jazz feel with a world music undertone. So keep your eyes open Finch is winging it your way, so long as it does not fly into a wall.