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Second Glances on the way
I’m currently working on an instrumental album called “SECOND GLANCES”. As a songwriter for other artists you sometimes never have, or take, the time to develop your own material. After my “wake-up call” (see previous post) I decided to focus on some of the music that I’ve written over the years that has never had a chance to see the light of day. SECOND GLANCES is an album that covers my entire songwriting journey; the earliest song on the album is from 1977 and includes stuff I’ve written from then up to now. It’s been fun to look back on these songs and try to dress them up in a new way. I have always been heavily influenced by Brazilian music so the album will contain some Bossa Novas as well as some jazz. No set release date yet…. still laying down the tracks… but I hope for a release in 2010.
You can hear one song from the album, SPRING SONG, and watch a video I shot near my home in Stockholm.
2010!
Things are already taking shape for 2010. I’d just like to take this opportunity to say thank you to a few people who have helped me over the past year: I got a lot of help with documentation and copies of newspapers for my musical, The Independent Man. I’d like to give a special thanks to Chris Meekins, Brian Edwards, and Tom & Mary Cherry for their help in this area.
Lots of things to do this year: finish the recording of the musical, script revisions, hopefully an album or two of new material… who knows?
Please keep in touch and if you’re interested in W.O. Saunders please check out the page here about the musical based on his life. My goal for this year is to get interest and funding to give the musical a staged reading or a workshop performance. If you would like to read the script or listen to the rough score please contact me.
Best,
Brian
Candle in the Window on Spotify
My Christmas album, Candle in the Window, is now on Spotify. Take a listen and get in the holiday spirit.
You can also buy the album here:
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First draft of – The Independent Man – done!
The big news this week is that I finished the first draft of my musical, THE INDEPENDENT MAN.
I actually finished the writing over Labor Day weekend (the 30th anniversary of the day I moved to NYC to write musicals).
And by the way, big thanks to Chris Meekins, Brian Edwards and Tom & Mary Cherry for supplying me with books, articles and newspapers about the life of W.O. Saunders.
I’m cleaning up the score, starting on the incidental (underscore) music, and trying to get everything ready so I can have “real” singers perform the songs. Right now, I’m singing all the parts – not ideal.
One thing I have found out by writing this show is this: it’s a lot more work than I ever expected AND, you’ll be surprised how much you can accomplish if you DO work.
This has taken up a major portion of my time this year and there’s still a ton of work to do… and that’s even before the struggle of trying to get people interested and having any kind of staged reading or production. It’s going to be a long haul…but you know what? I love it.
You can read my synopsis under MUSIC-THE INDEPENDENT MAN
Please let me hear from you: brian@brianhobbsmusic.com
