For the past ten or so years I have had the practice of playing my guitar through a looper and then layering loops for a long meditation. Thinking that I was coming up with some pretty good stuff, I began to record the finished meditations into my computer.
Now, I’ve figured out a way to share them with you!!
This has just gotten too silly. Too many of my close friends have either never heard of my 2009 EP Mixed Vice Work, or, upon hearing it, think that it is new music.
So I’m devoting the month of March 2012 to The Mixed Vice Work EP. I just released a music video for the song Faded, and I’m giving away 100 copies. All you have to do to get one in your mailbox is:
Heyo!
If you follow this website at all, you’ve noticed some things changing. Like everything.
One thing about doing everything myself is that I get to envision how the entire artist gets puts together and presented. Also, that I have to be the one to do that. Not something I’ve had any experience at, so I’m learning on the fly (aren’t we all).
So for the past five years, since I first started exploring a web presence, I have been trying to narrow things down. What is my voice? What template does it fit into? I’m not just a musician, I’m not just a blogger, not just a Quaker, etc. But things seem to be settling down into a rhythm, or maybe will soon, so it seemed like a good time to re-vision how I wanted to use jonwatts.com
I’m hoping it will be more of a place where I can use my own, natural voice, since I am hand programming the website anyway. That seems to be the direction that the whole web is taking: more personal, more real. Less third person. Which makes sense.
I am finding that I really just want to be able to write on this site more casually. Maybe someday the blog will be a totally separate thing from all the videos, etc that I’ve been posting here.
Anyway, the whole look and feel of the site has changed dramatically in the past two months, and I’ve been slaving away over redesigning the store and the lyrics and listen pages in anticipation of some major events coming up soon. But first, I have to complete my commitment to make a video out of every song on Clothe Yourself in Righteousness. Only two songs left to go!!!
peace
Jon
A few weeks ago, Jon talked with Mark Helpsmeet of Northern Spirit Radio about the Clothe Yourself in Righteousness project. Part two of that interview just got posted.
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(And here for part one.)
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Full transcript here.
After two years of writing, recording and planning, Clothe Yourself in Righteousness is out! The album is Jon’s most mature, well-thought out work to date.
Pre-orders have been shipped. Donors have been rewarded. Now all we have to do is go and play the tour!
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