Notice the date on this bad boy: a pre-emptive archive entry for all you good boys and girls out there
-Joe

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Well, like any semi-responsible web goober I feel obligated to put down a few things right at the get-go.

At the moment I’m taking a break working on the new NEP (or first, even) album, tentatively titled lilies of the field. I’ve got three tracks in a relatively suitable “demo” state (any of you who actually heard previous Phase albums are aware that demo is about as good as it gets…) but so far I’m also pretty excited. It’s a divergence from old Phase and Program One material. Download it if you wish at the KFKOD site (and be sure to pass some love on to the amazing D-Funk for designing this rockin’ site).

Speaking of diverging, I don’t want to sell old fans of Phase and P1 a line that you’ll all love this and give it to your friends and relatives. Thematically “Who Loves Ya?” came from a darker and confused place and that was going on 5 years ago. Some of you may be disappointed at some of the conclusions (or apparent conclusions, more appropriately) that time has rendered. Some of you might be more than disappointed.

I’m not going to apologize for what I’ve written or said—either with old projects or new. However, I also felt it important for folks looking for songs like “Purge” should probably just move right along. I guess this site will be a forum for my views, opinions and beliefs so further clarification for these developments might come in time if you’re at all interested.

Anyway, now that the little disclaimer portion of this is done, let’s move back to being excited and such, shall we?

If I get a decent enough amount of time there’s a chance that the new NEP will be ready by the time this site goes up, if not I’d suspect mid-January to be a decent completion date. There will be samples available at the NEP site, so dig in or grab seconds.

In other news, while I had hoped to have “All Things Right and Beautiful” done in rough form by Jan 1, I’m greatly doubting that it’s going to happen. As it stands, the saga that began with “Dinnertime” (available at Joe-Mammy.com along with a variety of other bits n’ pieces…) I’m actually very excited about “All Things…” in its completed form. It will be my second novel (the first will, at some point—for better or worse—be available here, too) and my most solid coherent work to date that’s over 30 pages long.

Well, I’m gonna end it here. I’m working on a track that may or may not be on the new NEP album called “Relapse.” It’s a cover of an Adam Again song that’s pretty amazing and I’m just trying to not screw it up too bad.

Consider yourself greeted.

-P