Listen and purchase here!

This little store application has it all! Here you can listen to all of my music and add anything you like to your own music collection by purchasing CDs or downloads.

 

Here’s a little guide to using the Nimbit store…

Select an album by clicking the little arrows on the lower left.
Play any track by clicking its play button next to the track number.
Buy a track by clicking its price button.
Buy an album by download by clicking “All Tracks” at the very bottom.
Buy a CD by clicking “Disc” on the bottom right.
To join the New Aquarians by providing your contact info or to get code and put this great little store on your page, click the arrows button at the top.

Music is also available at Amazon MP3, CD Baby, Emusic, iTunes, Napster and Rhapsody.

 

Here’s some backstory on each release…

 

Mono Is King!

They say that you have your whole life to write your first album. Though I wrote the songs on Mono Is King! mostly in 1996, I definitely tried to cram a lifetime of experience into the songs and the grooves.

Mono Is King! was a nod to AM radio in the 70s, which I loved so well. The album is in mono (meaning not in stereo) just like the music that came out of my transistor when I was a kid. I recorded the record on 8 track and mastered it on quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape. I rejected all special effects and digital technologies, leaving only distance (how loud something was in the mix) to create the sonic image. In the theme of distance, most of the songs on Mono Is King! were about the self-imposed isolation of ambition and the longing for connection that always lay beneath the exterior. Many of the characters are loners that seek a single true companion.

I was religious about analog recording in the 90s, but I was broke and acquiring analog equipment was harder then than it is now. It’s a good thing I went with the monaural concept, because I picked up the half-track machine second-hand and the heads on it were totally shot. The right channel was especially weak. I had the heads replaced on that old tape machine after Mono Is King! was off to the manufacturer. For $600. Ouch!

Even though Mono Is King! is on CD, it has two "sides," like an LP. Each side was conceived as a complete thought and each one leads to the other. In fact, at the end of side two, I introduce the first song on side one. This was my first attempt at playing every instrument and singing every part myself on a recording. I only enlisted a drummer’s help, because I didn’t yet own a kit. (So broke…) Being alone in a studio for that long, rolling tape myself and performing each track one at a time, I started to go a little stir crazy, hearing weird things in the playback and getting punchy in the late night sessions. By side two, I had decided to document that experience, which accounts for all of the weirdness between the actual songs. I gave those little gems their own IDs on the disc, but to hear them, you’ll have to get Mono Is King!

Mono Is King! changed my life forever. I hope it demonstrates how much can be done with very little.

Original Release Date: March 25, 1997

Available on CD and by download

 

The Silver Record

Originally meant to be a 7-inch record, The Silver Record was my follow-up to Mono Is King! We celebrated the 2-song release with a concert at the historic vaudeville venue, the Darress Theatre, in Boonton, NJ. The silver labels for the records were printed and the sleeves ready for assembly, but when the test pressings of the record came back, I was mortified. By 1998, the art of the 7-inch had been reduced to offerings by punk bands, which I was decidedly not. I finally opted to go with a cassette single. Today, The Silver Record is available exclusively by download. The songs feature the piano and drums that I had acquired since Mono Is King! was released. Listen for the tape stretching at the end of "Consequences"!

Original Release Date: October 17, 1998

Available by download

 

Pull All The Plugs

Pull All The Plugs is exactly what the title says, an acoustic album. Just guitar and voice (side one) and piano and voice (side two), continuing with the concept of album sides as complete thoughts like I did with Mono Is King! The songs are about extraordinary characters that could soar if not for a certain lack. I ran the gamut from hopeless to hopeful. The lyrics foreshadowed events of my life more than they reflected them, which still chills me when I listen to this record, since I know how the story ended.

I pay homage to my home of New Jersey on this album with "Mother Leeds", my retelling of the legends of the Jersey Devil and the way they are visited upon a character with nothing left to lose. This album also features "Ordinary People," which always felt like a songwriting triumph for me, both in message and structure.

I remember finishing the editing of side two on a late autumn afternoon. I’d been working alone for hours and daylight was fading. Whenever I edited quarter-inch master tape, I always listened on headphones so I could hear the cue points. I rolled the tape back to listen to the whole side for the first time. I lay back, closed my eyes and disappeared into side two playing in my head. Before it was over, I was sitting up and looking nervously over both shoulders. I knew I was alone, but for some reason, I had to make sure that no one was creeping behind me, waiting to take this wonderful thing away from me. Was this music was really mine? Soon, the leader tape flicked around and around and the machine stopped. I let out a deep breath. I had captured it.

Some electric ensemble versions of these songs exist, but they don’t capture the same passion or that absolutely perfect autumn day when we took the picture for the cover.

Original Release Date: February 14, 2000

Available on CD and by download

 

It’s Christmas (Let It Touch You)

This release was my thank you to everyone who had let some of my music into their lives as I released my back catalog by download. I’ve always loved Christmas records and have always written Christmas songs. This single represents the first time I recorded one. It was a pleasure to do, since I got to use all of those familiar Christmas sounds: sleigh bells, bell chimes and lots and lots of guitars. My friend Brian Fitzpatrick did the artwork for me. To me, it looks like the door in the last verse. The epilogue to this track, which I released just after Thanksgiving, was that I listened to it being played on the radio on Christmas morning.

Original Release Date: December 1, 2008

Available by download