michael edwards [music]

Banjo has officially made it’s appearance on the new record in a wonderful song. It’s a cover, and you can hear the original song below.

In my search for more variety in my instrumentation, I am being blessed by friends and acquaintances who step forward to contribute. Sharon, a friend of Shelby’s, has agreed to record some flute parts for the record. I just finished writing parts for one song, with more to come.

I’m looking forward to this weekend where I’ll get to work on some tracks with Jon. Trumpet and maybe some other instruments.

I’m still hoping to find a violin/viola player for some string layers. I have fun ideas. Do you know anyone?

Got to spend several hours this saturday laying down some drum, acoustic, and vocal tracks for Rotation, which is an upcoming song for my album this year (which I will finish). It has some spots for trumpet, flute, and violin parts (I’m still looking for some musicians to help me out in that regard).

I’m looking forward to some contributions from Jon Torrence on this song and others. We’ll get a chance to start laying down tracks around May 15th.

All this to say that I’m excited about the songs I’ve written and that I’m making progress on the record! Get stoked, it’s been over two years since I’ve put anything out.

I am looking for some musicians who would be interested in recording parts of my next album. In particular I am hoping to find players for the following:

• Flute
• Violin / Cello
• Trumpet / Other brass
• Saxophone

If you’re interested, I will provide monetary compensation. It won’t be an exorbitant sum of money, but it’ll be something.

Email me (michaeledwardsmusic@gmail.com) or message me on Twitter if you’re interested.

I built this site design from scratch. However, some of you may find that I am very clearly influenced by a certain blogger in the typography and color choices. I doubt he’ll ever see this site, but if he does then I hope he takes it as flattery. For what it’s worth, I coded it all myself from scratch, only using his design as a visual reference. No copy and paste.

UPDATE: I have been gradually building in comments and styling them to match the theme. Huzzah!

So, what do you think? Is this a good look for my site?

So there we have it. 26 years. I have a wonderful family and wonderful friends. I have a good job and an amazing wife. I’m still creating music and I still enjoy what I’m doing. Not a whole lot I could ask for, ya know?

So here’s to life, as it marches onward. May you find peace and joy. May we all.

oh that i could shake you

you are mine, you are mine
falling asleep at the wheel
we divide, our hands and our minds
we fly straight through the windshield
is this the end, the end of our lives
oh we can’t say for sure
i turn my head to see where you lay
asleep, you’re still asleep

and if we are dead, who will pretend
that this was more than it seemed
that these cars and roads and places we go
couldn’t hold our spirits still

Lee Bozeman (Luxury, All Things Bright & Beautiful) has just put out an EP entitled Mea Culpa under the moniker Orient Is His Name. I had the privilege of contributing to one of the songs on it. Definitely check it out. It’s available for download here:

http://orientishisname.bandcamp.com/

Ornaments is a Christmas album project dreamed up by my friend Jeremy Cordy. He approached me in early November 2009 with the idea of gathering the various musically talented friends we had to try to put together something beautiful. I couldnʼt be more pleased with the results.

Comprised of almost entirely original songs, the project was an attempt to fill a few gaps in the Christmas music we were used to hearing all the time and explore some different scenarios and ideas.

Download: Ornaments.zip (51.8 MB)

B-Sides: There are some songs we didn’t quite finish in time. As they get wrapped up and released I’ll update this post with links.

• Santa Claus Is Coming To Earth – Justin Edwards
• Chanson Pour Noël – Justin Edwards

Download the updated notes pdf: Ornaments Lyrics and Notes (160 KB)