A thousand babies, actually...packed into five boxes (where will I find the room?) and just in time for our gig tomorrow evening at the Dancing Bean Cafe in Chemainus. The plant reproduced the CD design flawlessly and the music is just as we laid it down. I'm exhilarated.
Now the really hard part begins: slogging the end product to our gigs and figuring out how to sell the darn thing on-line. Agencies like CD Baby and Bullfrog Music are excellent on-line servers, but as far as I know they don't do too much promotion. Some excellent players poured their talent and hearts into the project, so it’s just a matter of getting people to sample the actual material from the website (once it’s up and running). More web adventures!
Thanks again to all the wonderful musicians who played on the CD and kudos to Zak Cohen and Don Craig who stick handled the final process. For those interested in purchasing a copy, contact me at dwkosub@shaw.ca or call me at 250-658-6461. The price is $20. I’ve got a hunch you’ll like what you hear.
Cover photo for CD "From Away"
This pic was taken off Dallas Road in Victoria. No Fuss. No Muss. Just the sea and me.
About Me
- David Godkin
- As reviewers, we naturally present our biases as strengths. If we’re paying attention we’ll also recognize anything overdone or done in ignorance of the larger historical and aesthetic frame in which both poetry and criticism exist is likely to do disservice to both. Even then we're more likely to miss more than we catch, appreciate less those poems worthy of praise, while elevating others beyond their genuine deserts. My own biases in poetry lean towards compression, dense allusive imagery, dissociative leaps in meaning, lines rich in personality and driven by strong purpose or intentionality. Naturally, these represent a very small part of the broad range of tastes and expectations through which any book might be filtered. Uppermost must be our sympathies for the poet whose satisfactions when we get it right must almost inevitably be tempered by an even greater patience when we get it wrong.
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