Catching Up On What I’ve Been Up To: Fall 2024 Releases, a Year-Long Hiatus, And Now The Release of Very Old Songs From the Vault for Fall 2025

Well, to make a long story short:

• After my last blog article about the release of “Dressed in the Finest Sunshine” in the late summer of 2024, many other EPs and a few more albums were released in the Fall and Winter of 2024, including the Christmas album Brightest Silent Night — one of my favorite projects I’ve ever done.

• Some more EPs followed the Christmas album leading up to one final album: “Sentinels of the Breakwater” released on New Year’s Day of 2025.

• Then I began a year-long hiatus from writing and recording. Things got very busy in other parts of life.

• My last day of recording anything new was October 26th, 2024 (and by that time I had recorded everything in advance that would be released later that fall and winter into the new year). As it turns out, I probably won’t be able to begin recording (or at least releasing) any new stuff until at least October 26th, 2025.

• So in the meantime I’ve decided to release songs from the vault going back as far as 1996. By October 26th, 2025, I will have released around 66 songs that I’ve remixed and remastered from bygone eras dating back to the mid-1990s but also including the Y2K era, the 2010s, and the early 2020s right before the pandemic began. Most of these 66 songs I’ve never released on a global scale like this with mainstream music streaming platforms. They were usually only released locally in regions of California.

• On October 26th and October 28th there will be some brand new stuff that I’ve never released at any time — though I did write and record these new songs before my hiatus began on 10/26/2024, so technically they’re also vault songs. The “Oh Refiner’s Fire” EP will be released 10/26/25, and the “Light Speed Gear Shift” EP will be released 10/28/25.

• At some point in October or November, I will publish a new blog post with a full, detailed list of all the releases from the vault with album names, track lists, and information about when each vault song was originally written and recorded.

• On October 14th, 2025, as a part of the release of the vault song “Psalm 63,” I will be publishing a new blog post with details about that song (which features the sitar) as well as some interesting tidbits about the history of the sitar, the lute, and India’s Mughal Era.

• Not sure if I’ll begin writing and recording anything new after all of the vault songs above are released or if the hiatus from new recording work will continue.

Sometimes it’s good to just take a long break and create some mental distance from all previous creative work.

And since I forgot about posting this in 2024, I’ll post it here — my album cover art for the 2024 Christmas release “Brightest Silent Night”: