Sung by a lovelorn psychologist, the songs in Lonely Motel are about perception, self-delusion and ultimately about the isolation created by the attachments we develop to our own fuzzy, personal views of reality.
The music is a dish by and for musical omnivores and white the ingredients have been diced quite finely (and there is no quotation), the songs are seasoned with homages to Dowland, Mozart, Stravinsky, Piazzola, and The Beatles.
Lonely Motel is available for purchase or download from Amazon, iTunes, ArkivMusic or emusic. You can watch a teaser video for the new recording here. More information about the project that led to this recording can be found here.
Slide of Dog (:30) Stare Prelude - Overture (:30) Depending (:30) She Walks (:30) Fog (:30) Stare (:30)
Co-commissioned by:
Stanford Lively Arts at Stanford University
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at University of Maryland*
Meet The Composer's Commissioning Music/USA program**
Charles C. Jett, Nancy R.G. Church M.D., and Herb and Belle Goldman
Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond
The 2009 Ojai Music Festival
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Corporate Funding by The Boeing Corporation
The Music Department at Princeton University
*With funds from The Leading College and University Presenters Program of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional support also provided by the James Irvine Foundation.
**Made possible by generous support from the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Francis Goelet Trust, the Helen F. Whitaker Fund, Target, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
