Wow! Summer got long. Then I got sick, and I still sort of am. That is a work in progress, in and of itself. So I took a month or so off to rest, and naturally, got restless.
Now, Delicate Cutters are dilligently plugging away at that next album, now looking to be titled “Some Creatures”. I was recently interviewed by Spry Magazine, which you can view at www.sprymag.com. I intend to get our first album up for sale here in the next few weeks. Good intentions…
I have been on a strange spiritual journey, these past few months, and I expect it will start to surface in the form of performance very soon. Look for updates about upcoming shows here starting in late November.
Mike asked me to write a little bit about the work in progress that is our upcoming album. Its current working title is “Some Creatures” and will be a bit longer than the first. Featuring songs about deaths of beloved children, the loss of one’s roots, deterioration of psyche, and wars between loved ones, the instrumentation will be slightly more organic and the overall sound a little more salon. Some songs included will be the title track, “On Fire”, “Breathe”, “Lovers, Don’t Leap”, “Wintergreen”, and “Picture of Health”. My hope and dream is that this will be out before Christmas.
Mike here: I was thinking about the “deaths of belovid children” part the you wrote. It reminds me of Kathe Kollowitz. The title of the this piece is Woman with a Dead Child. Kathe Koolwitz is dark, depressing, and fabulous.
this website makes me feel like i’ve got on a brand new sassy pair of shoes. hooray for mike benson!
delicate cutters have been undergoing some serious study time. that is, brian is deep into graduate school in composition and also teaching at the university. kevin quit his lucrative day job to go to graduate school, as well. he’s becoming a mad scientist! chance, well, chance is knee deep in fake blood shooting another movie. we can’t wait to see what happens when he takes his gore to outer space.
as you may know, our beloved guitarist pete, also of ferocious bubbles and trees with bells, has departed from our fivesome to work solely on his projects. we are happy and excited for pete’s successes and triumphs, though sad to see him go. if you haven’t already, check out his bands here on site, and be sure to buy his albums. pete’s talent in the recording process is not to be missed.
in the meantime, i have been working with my other band, teen getaway, to finish up a long-time-coming ep, to be released within the next couple of months. in the non-rock arena, i have been working on ancient sacred chant with friend jennifer roth-burnett. also, i have decided to join forces with kevin as a support musician for his irish band, red hill. more on that, later!
we will be looking to get back into the studio within the next couple of months, as we have many new songs to share, and once the dust has settled from this semester’s crunch, we will be ready to be backin front of an audience and hopefully take some road trips.
I did the album art for the Delicate Cutters’ last album We are Not Lovers. Janet had already done some work on an album cover that incorperated Morning Glories. I used that as a spring board into the project. Not all of my initial designs used flowers but in the end, they just felt right.
I liked the album a lot and I wanted to create something that would compliment the songs like a good backdrop for one of their shows. Wouldn’t that be fun?
I felt like at it’s core it was about memories and getting older and wiser. The songs felt like reflections on the past. I am an consumate, often unwilling, collector of things from my past. Old books, cards, photos - they always hold a story. That’s what I finally settled on. The idea of life as your favorite storybook - one you might read as a kid before you go to bed. The following is some images that didn’t make the cut. Check it out.
The following is 10 Round Buyer. A really cool song off of the album.
This is the version that went to press. It’s torn, like a well loved kids book.
delicate cutters have been undergoing some serious study time. that is, brian is deep into graduate school in composition and also teaching at the university. kevin quit his lucrative day job to go to graduate school, as well. he’s becoming a mad scientist! chance, well, chance is knee deep in fake blood shooting another movie. we can’t wait to see what happens when he takes his gore to outer space.
