NEW "JESUS" EP ARRIVES at iTUNES

Just a quickie to thank everyone who's purchased a copy of the new 5 track EP
"If Jesus Hasn't Saved You Yet" at iTunes...

It's selling well which is very gratifying. Thanks to all of you for your support and for freaking me out by making the single track "Sweet Like Candy" the breakout from the new record.
Who'd of thunk it?

If you haven't got the new release please drop $3.99 and pick it up at iTunes.
PEACE & LOVE TO ALL THE BLUE PEOPLE

BE A FAN & GET COOL STUFF

MOVIES & MUSIC

Hey people. What's going on?

I've been busy working on all kinds of projects. Some of you might know that I have a serious interest in movies - as in writing and directing them some day. I'd love to make a little indie-feature and take it around to festivals and do all that film biz stuff. So I've been writing a bunch of screenplays over the last several years. There are now 5 feature scripts in various stages of "development". When I get tired of one I just go back to one of the others and work on that for a while. It's fun and it's creative and it's difficult. It's hard making something that's really a plan for a 2 hour movie. Each of these scripts is approximately 120 pages in length, give or take a few, so it takes a lot of organizing and deleting and starting over and I actually enjoy all of that frustrating stuff. Plus it gives me a break from music, which I need sometimes. But...

Having said all that: I am back working on a new music project. The debate right now is over whether this will be a full length album or a Mini-album (they used to call them EPs). The songs are all done so I'm kind of trying to figure out which ones to release. Looking for groups of songs that work well together - that kind of thing. Fun. But whatever it turns into - IT will be out in the spring.

By the way: if you haven't seen The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - I highly recommend it. Amazing movie by director David Fincher - who is an incredibly talented guy. The film is long but highly original, has great acting (Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett) and really stunning special effects which are actually there to help tell the story instead of stick out like a sore thumb. I hate movies where you're obviously just meant to swoon over the effects instead of getting involved in a legit storyline. This is a great film. One of the best I've seen in a long, long time.

Okay. Enough rambling. It's Friday afternoon. I'm at home trying to decide whether to go out clubbing tonight or stay in and work. At this moment the clubbing thing is winning out.

PEACE.

long cold snowy winter

So, this is how I look after being out almost all night on Halloween!

Yes I had a few drinks...

I'm back "in the studio" working on new material after a long time off but my exemplary work ethic didn't stop me from going club hopping on Halloween night.

Dupont Circle (in DC) where I live is the homo ground-zero of Washington so it's always festive down here on Halloween. And last night was no exception with untold numbers of costumed queens (and assorted other sexual persuasions) decked out in their scariest finery.

I hit P Street and 17th all in one night and ran into all kinds of friends and acquaintances. Fun was had by all---especially me.

Today it's back to recording a new track called "In The Glow". Hopefully you'll be hearing it in the Spring. It's going to be a long, cold, snowy winter of new music. Just the way I like it.

PEACE.

CINEMATIC, AMBIENT TRACKS

hello blue people.

i have had the most horrid sinus infection going on for the last week. i mean every single day my head is throbbing and my teeth are aching. yes teeth. if you've never had a sinus attack then you do not know what real pain is. it fucking hurts big time.

anyway in order to squelch the misery i have been staying up late, drinking large amounts of cheap vodka which does the trick of getting rid of the aching and has the secondary effect of causing me to want to write some new music. so i've been working on new tracks.

hope to have something out in spring 09.

6 "songs" are complete already (as of today). i put quotes around the word songs because none of these tracks has vocals really. i'm sick of writing pop songs. i find instrumental music to be much more open and interesting. i can do what i want on instrumentals and i don't have to sing and pretend to be streisand...

also these tracks are, for the most part, kind of laid back - something else that i like. i enjoy cinematic, ambient kinds of things and i think this new album (is that what it really is?) will head in that sort of direction.

hope you are all well. i'm taking some time off from working in television (my day job) so that i can rest and drink and go out to the clubs. i could have made something up - but that's the truth.

kisses.

arlin

THE ERROR FILLED WORD OF GOD

CURRENT BRAIN SCAN>

Weekend's almost here. Excellent.
Summer seems to have lasted way too long. I hate hot weather. Love Fall and Winter.
Should I go out tonight and misbehave terribly or restrain myself and stay in? Confused.
Watched the original Star Wars last night. Made me remember why it was so great in the first place.
Have watched David Fincher's Zodiac 24 times in the last month. Great movie.
Am maybe beginning to think I might like to write some new music.
Had lunch with a friend today in Dupont. Ate very good pizza. Talked about the music biz.
Been writing 4 feature length screenplays and a few shorts as well. Thinking I might like to
try making a real movie one of these days.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING ELSE...

Have decided that Christianity is one of the most awful things ever foisted on to the human race. Seems there's virtually no proof that Mr. Christ ever acually existed and that the Bible is absolutely filled to overflowing with inconsistencies and outright errors. Look 'em up yourself.

For instance - Matthew lists 26 generations between Jesus and King David, whereas Luke records 41. Which is correct? Ask Pat Robertson. He claims to have visions from God all the time.

In describing Jesus being led to his execution, John 19:17 recounts that he carried his own cross. But Mark 15:21-23 disagrees - saying a man called Simon carried the cross. Oops! Not really very clear is it?

As for the crucifixion, Matthew 27:44 tells us Jesus was taunted by both criminals who were being crucified with him. But Luke 23:39-43 relates that only one of the criminals taunted Jesus, the other criminal rebuked the one who was doing the taunting, and Jesus told the criminal who was defending him, "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

Regarding the last words of Jesus while on the cross, Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34 quote Jesus as crying with a loud voice, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Luke 23:46 gives his final words as, "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." John 19:30 alleges the last words were, "It is finished."

I mean really! You figure it out. The Bible is so freakin filled up with different versions of this story and that story that I don't understand how anyone with even half a brain could possibly call it "inerrant". Clearly it errs. A lot. And in big obvious ways.

And really Jesus isn't such a nice guy if you read his ideas on human behaviour. Firstly he wants you to love him and if you don't or if you have a different point of view then he's going to BURN you in a lake of fire FOREVER. If a human being thought that way we would describe them as psychopathic or at least just evil. But Jesus really comes off as downright snotty. Demanding that you "believe". He's a spoiled, petulant child of a God if you ask me. Very unforgiving and not exactly loving.

By the way did you know that Adolf Hitler was a Catholic. Yep.

Oh and the next time you get vaccinated for a disease or play a CD or watch the Space Shuttle blast off into space - remember that none of those things came from religious mysticism. They came from science. From thinking. From using our collective brains. So you go do all the praying you want. I'll take antibiotics, clean running water, condoms and electricity any day.

Okay. I'm done now. I need a drink. Did I mention the weekend is almost here? PEACE.

THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS Now On CD

In 2003 I wrote my first full length album from scratch.

I called it:
THE SECRET LIFE OF BOYS which was a veiled reference to my own then secret and quite wild life in the gay clubs of Washington, DC.

Well, that album - which some say is still my best ever - has been picked up for re-release as a physical CD by the fine people at Amazon.com. God bless them and WOW it's weird how the record business is changing.

By the way - by "physical" I mean a real CD that you can hold in your hands. Artwork. Liner notes. That kind of thing.

It's dedicated to my former manager Eddie Parsons who is connected to that record in my mind in a way that can not be simply forgotten. I met him when it was first being promoted by my label INgrooves and being released on iTunes...so when I think of that first project I always think of him. Fun times...believe me.

Anyway I didn't just turn in an old master for this project. Instead I had an amazing time going back to the original mixdowns which had been done on what was then the state of the art - DAT (Digital Audio Tape) at 16bit 44.1kHz resolution. This is how all studio work was done in those days. Since then much better recording formats have arisen. So...

Those original tracks were put into an Alesis Masterlink system - which uprezes them to 24bit 96kHz resolution and allows a level of compression and EQ that was previously unheard of. In other words these tracks were tweaked quite a bit. I got to do the stuff I had wanted to do back when I first recorded these songs.

The end result is really a new release of my first songs and instrumentals that literally sounds far better than they first did years ago. The difference is astounding.

If you're a Delphinium Blue fan then this is a release you should have on CD for 3 reasons: it's the first album ever, it's been remastered big time and it sounds way better than those crappy compressed downloads at iTunes. Listening to "Boy Seventeen" off CD is so much better than the download version that it's something you have to hear to believe. There really is no comparison.

Anyway sorry to ramble on - but I'm quite proud of this record and how well it holds up in 2008.
I hope you're all well out there wherever you are. When you get a chance get a copy of the CD. It's pretty cool.

PEACE & LOVE TO ALL THE BLUE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD.

NEW TRACKS COMETH

Hello Blue People: Love and Peace to you all.

It's been a long dark time since I last wrote but change is a-comin' and I'm back at work on a new album that I believe I mentioned some months ago. In any event, it's real and it's being tweaked as I write this. No more bars for me. No more bad influences. I want to work. I want to be productive. I'm sorry for being bad. Please, don't spank me. I'm just that way...

Sometimes we get lost and I think I have been for the last several months (years, decades) whatever...anyway I feel like making music again and I'm also feverishly editing several music videos that I hope to have out later this summer. SO...this is a short message, yes. Just to say 'hello' and let you know I'm still breathing...and writing.

Be patient. New tracks cometh in the heat of the new summer. PEACE TO YOU ALL.

YES, A NEW ALBUM IS IN THE WORKS

Well, it's been quite a while since I've written anything on this blog of mine. I thought it was about time I get back to it.

By the way---thanks to the gazillions of fans out there in the big blue world who have signed up or on to the DB fan list. You guys are amazing. Thanks for the support and I hope you like the 12 tracks that you get in exchange for joining up. I have been so shocked at how many people are signing up each week. I try to write back to as many as I can to say a personal thanks but there have been so many lately that it's impossible to get back to every single one. Still I appreciate all of you hugely.

I've gotten a lot of emails lately from fans wondering if I'm dead or dying---I'm not. I'm quite alive and well and working on a new album.

Oops! I let that out of the bag didn't I? But what's a homosexual musical genius to do all winter long if not work on new material and anticipate dropping another load of tracks on the world sometime in the summer? And so THAT's what I've been doing. Working.

The next release---I can promise you---will be eclectic. By that I mean it will probably contain my widest ranging set of songs and tracks yet. I don't seem to be able to pin myself down to just one style. There are currently 22 tracks completed and more in production.

One of the ones I like the most is a re-working (not really a remix) of a track from StereoPornoGroove called "What Heterosexual Males Fear The Most" and I'm enjoying playing around with it again. I always liked the basic music in that one. It was originally recorded way, way back around 1999 in a basement studio in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, DC. I later did the mix that's on SPG and now I'm tinkering with it again---and changing it quite a bit. I will be giving it a new title I think. Something controversial maybe. Perhaps I'll call it "Straight Boys Aren't As Intelligent As Gay Boys"...but then again probably not.

Anyway I hope you're all well out there wherever you are. Lottsa love to you all. Stay tuned for more info on the new tracks. PEACE.

NEW SONGS & JEREMY ENIGK

Been working on new material over the last month or so. Haven't written much. Sorry to you news junkies. Music doesn't always move quickly. And I'm in a bit of an experimental mood lately.

I can't really say when there will be another release. Although there is some tentative talk of doing some music videos and that sort of thing just to put a different spin on tracks that are already out there in the world.

There is an album's worth of new material that I could put out and might---but on the other hand I'm still fooling around with some of the newer songs and I like fooling around. I sometimes have trouble telling myself that things are done and that I need to move on. The fun for me is all that tinkering around and trying different things and then sometimes destroying 2 months of work and starting over. Fun. Fun. Fun.


I've discovered a singer that probably everyone in the world already knows about. I'm famous for not being up on current musical events---but I recently started really getting into a guy named Jeremy Enigk who used to be lead singer for emo band Sunny Day Real Estate. He has a relatively new album out called WORLD WAITS which, in my humble opinion, is just amazing. I can't stop playing it. It reminds me of when Coldplay came out with PARACHUTES and I couldn't turn it off. Anyway Jeremy's music is just absolutely beautiful. And frequently he reminds me vaguely of John Lennon. The arrangements are quite complex and the melodies are real as opposed to the monotony of much modern day pop music. His melodies are lilting and actually start in one place and go somewhere. Which is what a real melody should do.

Anyway in a world full of mind numbingly simple hip-hop trash and Britney Spears' pop shit---beauty is a rare commodity. Jeremy Enigk's music makes me feel BETTER. It improves my day. As opposed to forcing me to wallow in cheap sex or intentional ugliness.

I highly, highly recommend WORLD WAITS to anybody out there who still believes that music can be transcendant. This guy is a major talent and I hope he gains the audience and recognition he deserves.



Later. Peace.

APPLE TO RELEASE DB TRACKS IN 256KBPS ACC DRM FORMAT

Hello DB Fans,

In the next week or so, Delphinium Blue's music will be available in the iTunes music store in the new DRM-FREE format as part of Apple's new iTunes Plus Service.

This means DB albums and individual tracks will be sold in both Apple's standard 128kbps AAC DRM format and their new 256kbps ACC DRM FREE format.

The quality difference is substantial and if you have Delphinium Blue material that you want to upgrade to the new higher standard it's pretty easy to do. This is a big step for the digital music world and I hope you guys like the way the songs sound in the new improved format.

PEACE

THE ELECTRONICA COLLECTION ARRIVES

My Dearest Blue Boys & Girls
All Over The World:

Greetings from DC (capitol of the U.S. of A.) where I am celebrating the release of "The Electronica Collection: 2003-2007".

And I DO mean c-e-l-e-brating! Do you people have any idea how much vodka has seeped through my weary brain in the last several days? I thought not.

Anyway, the record is dedicated to my ex-boyfriend Eddie Parsons who was an amazing manager and adviser (and who seems to be incapable of communication these days).

It came out on iTunes on Monday the 1st of Octber and is now out pretty much everywhere worldwide. If you're in Japan you can buy it. If you're in Germany you can pick up a copy. If you just so happen to live in Amsterdam it's totally available. So get it okay? I need to eat, plus it's really good music. Made by one person rather than a squabbling "group" of sex crazed bandmates. I've never been big on the whole band idea. I prefer art pretty much made by one human being if possible.

When it comes to making art I'm not very democratic. If you don't like that then you can make your own...

This record is a sort of greatest hits kind of thing and it has all my big electronica tracks from 2003 to the present. It's my way of celebrating the 5 years that I've been signed to INgrooves (the world's greatest record company and certainly the most forward thinking one).

A brief aside: INgrooves tracked me down in late 2002 (I think) and I hemmed and hawed (did I spell those words correctly) and finally signed the contract and sent them what became my first album The Secret Life of Boys---which came out on a new service called iTunes in 2003. INgrooves has been incredibly supportive all these years and has always let me put out whatever I wanted. Lately INgrooves has become home to Thomas Dolby (one of my idols), Jody Whatley, The Crystal Method and Theivery Corporation (who also live here in Washington). They've also put out remixes from one of my pals in Baltimore---Ultra Nate (who I shared a stage with back in 2004).

Enough rambling. Just wanted to say a very gay "hello" to you all (yes even you worried straight boys) wherever you are in the world. If you're a fan then you should really like this new record. Everything was totally remastered. I could actually hear things in these recordings that I hadn't heard since I originally produced them. All the tracks were remastered through state of the art digital equipment which allows for a level of detail that wasn't possible when many of them were first released.

Okay. Be cool. Enjoy the new record. PEACE & LOVE TO YOU ALL.

P.S. Write when you can. [arlingodwin@yahoo.com] I'm lonely you know. I spend all my time making music for you.

I SAW A FILM TODAY OH BOY

Hello Blue People. I have been busy putting the final touches on a retrospective release called "The Electronica Collection 2003-2007". This 16 track album contains the most important Delphinium Blue tracks from the last 5 years, plus one new cut: a bonus club remix of "Boy Seventeen" which is nearly 9 minutes in length. INgrooves has set a release date of October 8th.

In other matters---I happened to rent a really amazing film last night from the local video store here in the Dupont Circle area of DC where I live. The movie is called "Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer". I had read something about it back when it first came out but I had never seen it. I was absolutely blown away. I highly recommend it. It's a weird, beautiful movie of the sort that is rarely ever made---and never by Hollywood. Although it was DISTRIBUTED by Dreamworks!

It's set in 18th century Paris---and concerns a young man who is born with a super-human sense of smell. Literally. He can smell everything in great, great detail. Like an animal. And from this central idea comes a fascinating story---the end of which you will never be able to predict. Suffice it to say that the movie grabs and holds your attention from start to finish. Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman have supporting roles but the main character is played by a lovely young thing by the name of Ben Wishaw. This kid is a Meryl Streep-level talent. They should just go ahead and give him a couple of Oscars and get it over with because he's that good.

The director is Tom Tykwer who made "Run Lola Run" which is also a very cool film. But this one is amazing. Sometimes hard to watch and at other times so beautiful it brought tears to my eyes. And Mr. T also composed the music---which is haunting and atmospheric to say the least. Anyway, if you want to see something really cool rent this or buy it like I'm going to.

Incidentally, upon doing a little research I discovered that "Perfume" was deemed almost unreleasable here in the U.S.---and made only a couple million dollars---but it grossed over $100 million in Europe and the rest of the world.

What the fuck is wrong with Americans?

We do love our football, guns and Bibles and we really like our entertainment dumb and boorish. Anything that's really beautiful or which isn't wrapped up with a neat ending or moral isn't something we're interested in. Too bad because the rest of the world just keeps progressing along nicely without our approval. A 100$ million gross ought to tell you something. It ought to tell you that a whole lot of people found this film to be very engrossing. That's a pretty impressive haul if you ask me.

Anyway---speaking of the UK, Europe and the rest of the world (where most of my fans reside): thanks for being there and buying my weird music. PEACE & LOVE.

Stella Parsons' Remix of Boy Seventeen Coming This Fall

Hello to all you DB fans around the world.

Some good news on the music front: there is an amazing new version of "Boy Seventeen" also known as "Stella Parsons' Remix" scheduled for release sometime in the autumn. The original version of this song remains my most popular and I get no end of requests for a more up tempo version.

So, I am happy to announce that a true dance remix (at 140 bpm) has now been accomplished. It runs just under 9 minutes! So DJ's get ready. "Boy Seventeen" returns to dance floors all over the world this fall.

The remixed "B17" track will most likely be released on a new album ( a greatest hits kind of thing) to be called "The Electronica Collection 2003 - 2007". It will contain 16 tracks---all recorded since I signed with INgrooves. Everything is being remastered and so far it sounds amazing. I can hear things in the original tracks that I couldn't hear before. Aint technology grand?

I won't ramble on. But I wanted to let the faithful know that a collection of the very best electronica tracks from my short career are on their way. You'll be able to get this album either as a physical CD or as a digital release---or both. Stay tuned for more details.

PEACE.

UNTIL THE END OF SUMMER

Hello from DC. My cat Stella insisted on being in this photo. She's rather fond of me (she knows where the food comes from).

I'm counting the days until Summer is over. I hate the heat and it IS freakin hot in Washington right now. Last I checked it was around 97 degrees.

Anyway the heat has been my excuse to stay in and work on new tracks---both for release purposes and live performance reasons. I actually sat down and wrote a new song this week for the first time in eons. You see --- I don't really need to write anything new. I already have the world's largest collection of unfinished songs so when I DO write something new---I end up feeling guilty for having neglected my earlier, incomplete progeny. Still it's a lot of fun to work on brand new things.

Hope you're all well wherever you are and having a great summer. I can't wait for Fall to get here. Hope to have some new music for you by then. And we are still in the works as far as live shows go. Talking to the clubs etc...Stay cool. I have to go get ready to hit the clubs tonight. I think I'll do 17th Street. I need to meet some new queens. PEACE & LOVE.

LET THE SUNSHINE IN

Blue-people. Listen up. A great science fiction movie has been made. It's called SUNSHINE and you need to see it.

I had been reading about this movie for over a year and a half and finally got to see it last night.

All I can say is "Wow!"

Cillian Murphy (pictured in this publicity shot) is the star and the film is jaw-dropping. I sat through the whole thing with my eyes about to pop out of my head. Go see it.

HIDING OUT IN A COLD, DARK ROOM

Hi.

It's a been a little while since I last wrote. Sorry. It's summer and I'm deep into recording and planning and talking to advisers and all that jazz.

Besides does anyone listen to new music in the summer anyway? People go to shows so they can hear stuff they already know but I always find myself doing the new music thing in the fall and winter mostly. The summer heat puts me in the mood to hide out in a cold dark room full of recording equipment and make music. So that's what I've been up to.

Specifically I'm doing a whole bunch of very hi-energy remixes intended for some upcoming DJing gigs. "Boy Seventeen" in particular has gotten a serious reworking at 140 beats per minute and with a chord progression that is much more happy than the original. Yes, "happy".

And speaking of fall - I hear that Annie Lennox is releasing "Songs Of Mass Destruction" around that time of year and nothing makes me look forward to cooler weather than a new Annie album. Now if only Madonna would let go another record before Christmas - then my life would be complete.

Hey - if you haven't signd up to the fan list please do. You get 12 free tracks when you do that. And if you haven't bought one of the newer, cheap-cheap T-shirts with the rainbow colored Delphinium Blue logo on the front - well, you should. I just got mine and I like it lots. It's quite colorful. Like me.

Hope you're all well. Stay tuned for more info on live shows as it becomes known. PEACE.

THE POPULAR GIRL IN CLASS

Greetings To My Fans All Over The World
(especially you crazy french, russian and japanese)

First off: thanks to all the new-blue-people who have signed up to the mailing list in the last couple of months. I feel like the popular girl in class!

And YES you do get 12 free tracks when you do that but I'm still shocked. Who knew there were so many of you out there? The curious. The supportive. The real fans. Thank you.

And while I'm on the subject of signing up to the mailing list and getting the 12 free tracks - how come you're all downloading but you're too shy to tell me what you think of the songs? I mean some of you have written to give me appraisals but I could use more!

Don't be shy. Reach out and critique.

Anyway - there have been more sign ups to the email list in the last 2 months than in ALL of last year combined. Whether this is due to the release of New World Coming by NOKIA - on their latest European and Asian cell phone - or not - I do not know. This phone is reportedly being sold by the tens of thousands and that's a good thing. Undoubtedly lots of new fans are being turned on by this track (it's not a ringtone it's the whole track) when they purchase the phone. So, if this sudden popularity is due to NOKIA then THANKS cell phone people - for picking that track for your new product. It IS a cool tune if I do say so myself.

And anyway - I am amazed and bewildered at the huge number of new fans signing up and lending their kind words and support to Delphinium Blue. THANK YOU all profusely from the heart of my bottom. I promise not to spam the hell out of you. Actually I only email when there really is something cool going on that you might want to know about.

On to other things: Okay - well, summer is here and I am not happy about it. I do not get along well with heat. I get along even less well with humidity. And we have plenty of both here in Washington, DC where I am feverishly working on preparations for some tentatively planned live shows. When will these events actually happen? Good question - but the best bet is Fall & Winter coming up in a few months. Yes, it's really not THAT far off.

Delphinium Blue is actively talking with a number of booking agents and other assorted club persons with regard to doing some rather lengthier live shows sometime in the near future. I would personally prefer cooler weather for those shows - and it looks like I wouldn't be able to do anything any sooner anyway so...good for me.

In case you didn't know - in order to do a live electronic music show a lot of backing material has to be adapted to a club environment - and that's what I've been doing now for many weeks. And there will be many more before I'm ready to come out of my cave (uh studio). But interestingly enough - from this work has now come a fairly manic new version of Boy Seventeen which is very fast and very clubby. If you guys come to the shows and if you like it then maybe I'll release it at some point. There have been a lot of requests for a club version of that song (ever since it first came out) so now I can tell you that it actually exists. And it's pretty much done. So, I'm moving on to New World Coming later this week - revamping it and the other tunes which will make up the live show.

Anyway enough rambling for now. Hope you are all safe and sound wherever you are in the world. Love and peace to you all.

GAY PRIDE 2007 AS SEEN FROM MY APT.

Yesterday was Gay Pride parade day here in DC and the queens were out in full force. I shot this photo from my balcony and also recorded some audio from the craziness down on P Street. I think I might use the audio on future songs etc...

Plans are underway to release DB's first album The Secret Life of Boys as a CD sometime soon. The album has been available at iTunes as downloads for a long time but Amazon is offering to sell it through their on-line store and it will be available through others as well. More on that when we know exactly when that's happening.

Hope you blue people had a wonderful weekend. I did. PEACE.

DB DOES LICENSING DEAL WITH NOKIA

Hello Bluish People The World Over,

Thanks to everyone who sent birthday hellos today. I am still very young so don't even start wondering about my actual age. Just suffice it to say that it was really nice to get over 30 messages this morning just from email alone. I didn't know you guys cared so much.

Now on to other things: it is SO nice to occasionally make some serious money in the music business.

With that in mind, I am happy to report that thanks to my wonderful label INgrooves (in San Fran) I was recently offered a licensing deal with the world's largest cell phone company NOKIA for use of the track "New World Coming" on a new phone that they are releasing all over Europe and Asia.

No---this is not a ringtone. It's the whole track in stereo. This phone evidentally takes pictures, does phone stuff and plays audio files like an iPod. Anyway if you want to hear the track that NOKIA chose (and it's one of my favorites) you can check out Delphinium Blue at iTunes. "New World Coming" appears on the album The Secret Life of Boys.

PEACE & LOVE 2 U All.

RED WINE & SOLDER IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING

Greetings from Washington, DC where I am once again writing new material and recording new tracks. It's been a long, long time since I actually sat down and came up with new music and new lyrics but I've definitely been in the mood lately and the ideas are flowing fast.

After releasing "Sara" earlier this year I'm kind of over the whole Stevie Nicks thing! Don't get me wrong: I love the Nickster but it's way time for me to catch up on my own ideas and the things that I want to express.

I'm having a blast using some of the new software I bought back in 2006 but had not had time to explore. I was so busy trying to get "Sara" done that I never got to really sit down and check out SONAR (made by the wonderful people at Cakewalk).

I spent pretty much every night last week drinking red wine and making minor upgrades and fixes to some of my studio wiring. Things get frayed when you're pulling patches and cables around during sessions and there were some connectors that had gotten crudded up with dirt and so on. So those were all pulled apart and everything was re-soldered. (Solder, for those who don't know, is a metallic material which is heated with a soldering iron and used to join wires together---that's the simple definition.) And I do love the smell of solder in the wee hours of the morning!

So, after making repairs I settled down to recording some rough tracks and laying down crude test vocals---in an effort to get comfortable with the new programs. The fact that I am working totally in a digital world these days makes things sound SO clear that it almost freaks me out sometimes. The mic preamp I'm using now is so pristine that I have to EQ it down a little! I actually have to kind of dirty it up a bit to make it sound right. Yes, things can be too good sometimes. And rock'n roll and pop music was never about being perfect from a sonic point of view anyway. It's more about the overall sound I think. But it is weird to have things sounding so good that they're actually better than I need them to be.

And I am amazed at the effects possibilities now a days. Back in the 90's you kind of had to put effects like reverb on your voice and record it that way unless you were using a big board and outboard processors. And that method had a lot of drawbacks. It is much better to record vocals "dry" with no effects so that you can change your mind later if you want to. And now I just click the mouse and turn a "dry" vocal into a "wet" one with compression, delay, reverb and whatever else I want. And it all works in real time. Of course, it helps to have a computer with 2 Gigs of RAM.

And if I wanted to cheat and fix vocal mistakes (which I do not ever do) I could. There's a program built into the new software that allows me to adjust places in a vocal where I might have been off key. It works so well that I intentionally sang a few lines way off key and then applied the program and it really got me to laughing because it's like magic. It makes you kind of giddy to experience this level of control---even though I have no plans to use this stuff on my releases. You can actually apply this trick to an entire vocal track if you want and it makes minor "improvements" throughout. Tempting I will admit---but I prefer to do my own singing with my own voice. I mean editing a bunch of takes to get a good final vocal is one thing---but letting a computer fix your pitch problems is going too far in my opinion. But hey---Madonna will no doubt continue to sound far better than she did back when she started (when vocal processors were not yet invented). Ok, I'm sorry. Madonna does not fix her vocals. Right. For that matter I'm sure Britney doesn't either. But those Simpson girls are another matter.

I have a better idea: have some actual talent at singing. What a novel approach these days.

Anyway---I have no idea what I will release next. There's a lot of Delphinium Blue music out there in the world already so I hope that will be enough to hold all the fans over for a while. I wish you all a great weekend---what's left of it---and a productive week.

If you need me you know where I'll be: in the studio. PEACE.

DB's REMAKE OF STEVIE NICKS' "SARA" NOW AVAILABLE AT iTUNES

"Drowning---in the sea of love,
Where everyone,
Would love to drown..."

MY DEAR BLUE PEOPLE,

"Sara" has been released at iTunes. I'm not gonna go on and on about it. Just wanted everybody to know the new single is out and you can get it RIGHT HERE.

Hope you like the new track. Peace and love to you all.

"SARA" DEBUTS AT E-MUSIC & ADAM CURRY SPINS "BEAUTIFUL"

First off - THANKS again to former MTV VJ Adam Curry who out-of-the blue decided to play a track from the "Stereo Porno Groove" album on his massively popular "Daily Source Code" show today. I love that man! He played "California" last summer and helped a lot of people find that song who probably wouldn't have otherwise. "Beautiful" - the track he played today - was actually written for a drag queen bar tender here in DC believe it or not - years ago. I won't go into detail but JC if you're out there YOU know who you are!

Secondly - "SARA" has finally been released (not yet at iTunes although it should appear there any day now). But the new single is for sale at the huge online store E-MUSIC and a few other smaller services like TRACKITDOWN. It will soon be available virtually everywhere that music is sold online. I know I've been yapping about iTunes for months. The song was kind of held up by Apple (it's a long story) but it really is about to be released at the world's biggest on-line music store so for those of you who prefer iTunes - hang in there, it's coming.

I'm home today (Friday) doing some business, writing this blog and working on some new music. Hope you guys have a great weekend. Check out Adam's show. It's the biggest of it's kind in the world. Really.

PEACE & LOVE.

WAIT A MINUTE BABY ("SARA" COMETH)

My Dearest Blue Boys & Girls,

I can not thank you all enough for the untold number of emails regarding "Sara".

I know that for a very long time I've been updating you (seemingly endlessly) about the new single. And I truly feel like the boy who cried (okay maybe screamed) wolf. But it really is on it's way. I swear to God. Honestly. What can I say? It really, really is very close to being released...

The master recording was turned in to my amazing record company INgrooves (in San Francisco) back around the middle of January. And yesterday I had a fairly lengthy chat with my A&R rep (I'll call her Ms. T) and was told that the record will be out on iTunes possibly this very week but certainly within the next several weeks. So hang in there. It's literally going to happen any day now.

The bottom line is that it's very close and I think you're all gonna love it. It's going to have been well worth the wait. I wish I could have been more accurate in giving out a release date but Apple doesn't really do that unless you're Madonna. And I'm not. So I just get kind of a ball-park idea of the date. I try my best to keep you guys up to date and I SO appreciate everyone who has written (starting many months ago) asking about the release. I have been stunned by the enthusiasm.

In the meantime - if you haven't clicked on the "SARA" EXCERPT LINK on the main page of the official web site you should - if you want to hear what it sounds like. In any case - "SARA" is coming on "a white winged dove" or "a great dark wing" as Ms. Stevie would say...and any day now. Keep checking back here or at iTunes - because we're finally very, very CLOSE.

PEACE & LOVE TO YOU ALL.

INTERVIEW WITH A MIDDLE CLASS ROCK STAR

Hello Big Blue World,

As I write this it is Sunday afternoon February 18th at 4:30 in the afternoon.

Snow is coming down in heavy, torrential waves, blasting sideways by my 8th floor balcony, adding a fresh coat of white to the ice and slush that fell last week and already clogs up the gutters and sidewalks of P Street down below. Didn't that sound poetic? No? Well, it's beautiful to look at while it's coming down...

Anyway - did you guys see Prince on the SuperBowl? All I can say is "WOW"! There is absolutely no one working in music today who can do everything he does and do it so very, very well. Singing, playing, dancing - and in the pouring rain no less. Purple Rain indeed.

Hey if you're cleaning your house or apartment (or maybe your boyfriend) this weekend and need something interesting to listen to while you're scrubbing things down or soaping things up - check out the nearly hour long interview I just did with Tim Corrimal at GoRainbowRadio.

Unlike a lot of interviewers I have had the pleasure of being interrogated by - Tim knows a thing or two about music and the biz of music and he asked me a lot of interesting questions that I don't normally get asked. I was impressed with his curiosity and willingness to sit and chat for a lengthy period of time. And while you're on his site at www.gorainbowradio.com you might want to check out some of the other interviews as well.

And yes - I'm still waiting for "Sara" to drop at iTunes. The fact that the new single is obviously being delayed somewhat is actually a GOOD sign believe it or not. It's possible that Apple is going to feature the track in some way or other. As soon as I know what they're doing and when they're going to do it I will definitely let you guys know. The master for this track was turned in to my record label INgrooves back on the 15th of January so it's definitely in the pipeline for release. If you want to hear an excerpt you can visit the official web site at www.BlueMusicOnline.com. There's a link there to do just that.

Have a great weekend (what's left of it). PEACE & LOVE TO YOU ALL.

GO RAINBOW RADIO INTERVIEW THIS WEEKEND

I wanted to tell you guys about something coming up this weekend - an interview I did recently that will be airing on GoRainbowRadio.com starting Saturday Feb 17th.

Go Rainbow Radio is hosted by Tim Corrimal - who asked me a lot of interesting questions in a nearly one hour interview covering subjects as diverse as recording techniques to song lyrics to Pride Festival performances. And he'll be playing a number of DB tracks as well.

We'll be sending out an email to the entire fan list this weekend to remind everyone of the show. And in the meantime you can click over to www.gorainbowradio.com and check out some of the other great shows Tim has put together. Until then keep warm. We're having a huge ice storm here in DC right now, as I write this. Brrrr. Hope it's warmer where you are. If not - don't slip on the ice.

A SUPER PURPLE BOWL

It's Super Bowl Sunday - (I'm calling it A Super Purple Bowl) and normally I could not possibly be any less interested. I have never watched a football game (or any sporting event) ever in my entire life - I totally don't get the appeal at all - and I don't intend to start getting it today.

HOWEVER - the halftime show is whole 'nother matter - what with Prince handling the procedings. So - yes - I will be tuning in to at least take in the Purple One live this evening.

The last time I saw a live performance of his was a few years ago when he was inducted into the Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame and his show was fucking unbelievable. He was singing, playing lead guitar, dancing all over the stage, tipping the mic stand all over the place and generally just tearing up the stage. Awesome is by no means too heavy a word to describe that show. I just sat there watching him with my mouth hanging open in disbelief. I hope for a repeat today.

In other matters - "SARA" is very soon to hit iTunes and a 2 minute excerpt of the track is available at the official web site at http://www.bluemusiconline.com/

If you've been wondering what this song sounds like now's your chance to preview it. The reaction so far has been over the top. DJs, radio people, friends, associates, enemies and lovers have all weighed in - and the verdict has been highly favorable. I hope you also like what you hear. Enjoy the BOWL. Peace.

GET A FREE 10 TRACK ALBUM! REALLY!

My Dearest Blue People,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm giving away a FREE 10 track album of demos and unreleased studio tracks.


Yes it's 1000% FREE. Totally.

All you have to do is sign up to my fan email list.

And believe me when I promise that: I will never spam you with stupid, useless emails. Just info on new releases, live shows and that kind of thing. I really don't even do a mailing all that often so you have nothing to lose...

Previously I was giving away free copies of 3 tracks that were otherwise available at iTunes and a gazillion other stores. But I kept thinking about doing something more. Something bigger. Something to show how thankful I am to all of you around the world who buy my official releases. And anyway - this is it. I have a ton of music stashed away in the old vault and a lot of it is really interesting if not necessarilly completely perfect. Sometimes IMperfect is better.

These tracks are quirky and strange and there's even a recently discovered instrumental of the original version of "Boy Seventeen" that I had thought was long lost. And it sounds quite a bit different than the finished single version.

Anyway these tracks are cool to me and I hope you like them too.

Honestly - I'm just trying to build up my fan list. I mean I could make up a story that sounds more "show biz" but this is the truth: real fans mean a lot to an indie artist. And the music biz powerbrokers that I deal with every day are impressed and sometimes make decisions about my work based on how many people have willingly signed up to my fan list.

So please, please help me out - support a real, 100% indie artist who's doing it all by himself - and get a FREE 10 track album that can't be bought anywhere in the world. Just go to bluemusiconline.com and fill in your first name and email address (that's it) and you'll be instantly taken to a secret page with links to these 10 high quality unreleased mp3 tracks.

And hey - once you get them please write and let me know what you think. Thanks again for supporting me...and indie music. PEACE & LOVE TO THE BIG BLUE WORLD.

"SARA" MASTER DELIVERED TO iTUNES

I am very happy to report that - after a year of working on it - my newest single "Sara" has gone to INgrooves - my label in San Francisco. It's now out of my hands.

The early response from those few fans, radio people and various DJs here in DC who have heard the song has been very upbeat. I'm thrilled that the reaction has been as big and positive as it has.

My A&R rep Jennifer Tusa has been extremely supportive of this track and for that I am so grateful. When I told the label about the song she instantly wrote me an email saying "we have to get this out ASAP!" INgrooves in general has always been so easy to work with and so supportive. They let me do my own thing and when I have something ready to be released it's just a simple matter of contacting them and getting the track into the pipeline - so to speak.

Now that the record is out of my hands - it's nervous time. Whenever I finally finish a new record and let go of it I immediately start worrying that I didn't do everything as well as I could have. But in this case I think the fans are going to be pretty much blown away. This track took a year of my life.

I actually started it in a basement apartment in Georgetown working on some fairly old equipment. All of the major instrument and vocal tracks were laid down there.Then I moved to a new place in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, DC and continued to do overdubs and eventually the mixing - but this time on brand new computers, new interfaces and new software. No tape was involved at all in any way. This is totally a 100% digital project. And it sounds like it! I then bought new digital mastering equipment to do the final copies on and that was a lot of fun actually - for the first time. Mastering has always been painful in the past but now I really am set up quite well for that part of the process. The final mix sounds awesome so I hope you will all like it.

Anyway the audio files and artwork etc have all been sent to INgrooves and they are making plans to release it and promote it. It's hard to know the exact date that Apple will put it up live but if we hear anything at all we'll let everyone know via the blog and also emails out to all the fans who are on the fan list. I would estimate that "Sara" will be available within a few weeks.

PEACE.

PROMO WHEELS BEGIN TO TURN FOR "SARA"

The promotional wheels are starting to turn for my next release - "Sara" - a track I've been blathering about for a year.

When you do your own version of a song written by a superstar (in this case Stevie Nicks) it can take some time to get all your ducks in a row so to speak. And actually I won't be absolutely certain of a release schedule for a few more days.

We await word from The Harry Fox Agency in Los Angeles as to the status of our license application and then we will await further word from our record label INgrooves as to getting the song out to iTunes and all the other online stores. This track will be on-line only. But I assure you it's good. Everyone who's heard it so far has loved it. I just hope all the Fleetwood Mac fans out there don't start stalking me and sending threatening emails. I love Stevie and the Mac and would never mean to do them any injustice. I originally worked on this song as a live track and then it turned into a bigger project. Anyway I hope you guys like it. It's in the pipeline on it's way to release and as soon as I know more I will certainly pass along any new info.

In other news - I'm going to one final holiday party tomorrow night - taking along the Dutchboy I've mentioned in earlier posts. He only has a few more weeks left before returning to Amsterdam so we're running out of time to be debauched. Don't worry I think we'll get a little more nastiness in before he goes home.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. If you don't have the new album yet "Stereo Porno Groove" please go get it at iTunes. It's the poppiest thing I've done yet. 14 tracks of ear candy.

PEACE & LOVE.