My Cure for Anxiety - Desert Seas
Lord knows it's hot outside, and for the first day of summer, June 21st, a real mixture of light and dark in California. Sun, rain and heat, fires burning and a spring of drought ~we've been going to extremes, just like "Desert Seas" ...and I am putting the finishing touches on this Moby like collection. Along with it come some laughs and the occasional tears. I guess I like going from one extreme to another. (I tell myself....)
Desert Seas evolved and was birthed through anxiety.
I was changing again with new people around, and everyone going to the beat of thier own drummers.
My antidote was to sit down at the recording equipment in the evenings and musically medicate myself into relaxation. These melodies were comforting. I was coming down into it. So this unique collection has a calming effect on me and others who have had the opportunity to listen. Music the medicine. Funny though it has a lot of energy too. I love tribal beats and so I had some real fun with some cool rhythms! Always an experiment; 'twas much fun and much learning.
I composed the album entirely and played all the instruments except for on the final track "After The War", where my friends from CHAM, Donnie Woodruff (played jazz piano) and Nick Jaramillo offered up his poem "Soldiers Prayer".
My good friend Terry Schultz of Schultz Painting is about to tackle the art work. So if all things go well, we should be releasing it say early September.
The thing with me is I have this huge catalog of some 2000 songs I wrote over 10 years of my life. I really pray hard to stay focused and to keep on creating as to leave my legacy. I believe I have a story to tell. A brave one.
I hope you stay around to listen.
Thank you for reading this.
Moocho mucho much love to you always.
Miss Kristin
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