off line

1 Feb 2000 - 47 min

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Musings on life, love, longing. All these songs were first recorded on analog tape from 1987 - 2000.

This is a retrospective of my favorites from the previous two albums, plus some new recordings. CDs were how people were listening to music in 2000, and my previous counting the moon album was too long to fit on a CD. And I wanted to remaster the old songs, and fix things that had always bothered me.

So the theme here is “songs from the analog age” - all these songs were first recorded on analog tape, even the new ones. Released February 2000.

release dates

The streaming services currently say this album was published in 2022, which refers to the remaster for the streaming services, not the original publication. I’ll do that better with the next ones, but it’s apparently impossible to fix.

songs

keep rolling down river

2 Jan 1996 - album: off line - 7 min

A hymn to the inspiration and guidance I feel from flowing water. Five-part a cappella harmony. Straight takes, no editing.

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come to me

1 Jan 1996 - album: off line - 4 min

An upbeat song about the empty times. The yearning to be filled, which makes our lives vibrant, requires that emptiness.

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growing up in the garden

2 Jan 1996 - album: off line - 6 min

This is about my roots in Woodstock, New York, where natural beauty and proximity to New York City pull in different directions.

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lakewind

2 Jan 1996 - album: off line - 4 min

A love poem about a breeze that falls in love with the lake it touches, but is (apparently) unrequited.

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roundtrip vigil

1 Jul 1987 - albums: off line, the flower grandchildren’s quiet transformation - 2 min

I wrote the first verse of this song in an online chat conversation. That may not seem remarkable, but consider that it was in 1987, when only 10,000 computers were on the Internet, before either the World Wide Web or IRC.

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