After three years of work, the album is now available everywhere. Listen twice and it will become one of your favorites.
Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don
Marbles Considered Lost (the album) released!
MCL Album Cover
Here’s the album cover for Marbles Considered Lost. The digital booklet is nearing completion and will be ready when I’m finished with the audio. The album itself is making great progress. I’ve re-mixed eight of eleven songs from their singles version found on this website. It’s sounding fantastic!
Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don.
Some Failed Clockwork released!
Some Failed Clockwork – Stop and wonder what went wrong.
This is the final song needed for the album Marbles Considered Lost. The album is currently in the last stages of production. It should be only a matter of weeks before we publish.
Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don.
Beanstalks released!
Beanstalks – would you climb up?
This will be the first song on the developing album, Marbles Considered Lost. I wrote the introduction and first verse way back in July 2019, but then got side-tracked by life and the song sat ‘on the shelf’ almost two years.
Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don.
Truth released!
The Side of Science released!
The Side of Science – Hanging out in laboratories. Counting backwards for the practice…
Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don.
A Number of Concerns released!
A Number of Concerns – Cryptic and obtuse with little excuse; very concerning. The riddle was hanging there, right in front of your eyes. Very concerning indeed.
This song is the first to feature my new guitar, the Rickenbacker 360. It had been a very long-standing dream of mine to own a Rick’. And then it finally came true in early 2020, just before the pandemic. It was love at first sight.
Marbles Considered Lost (song) released!
https://soundcloud.com/jpeter-ash/marbles-considered-lost
Marbles Considered Lost (song) – Oddly enough, this song was born out of a desire to have a title track, which was one of a short list of goals I had set for this album. None of the prior six albums had a title track. The album name, Marbles Considered Lost, had been chosen to poke fun at myself. Highlighting how crazy it is that I’ve been writing and recording these songs for almost thirty years now; in my spare time and on my own dime, and for no particular purpose. This song plays out as a stream-of-consciousness lament over the burden of compulsive work. It ends, however, with a powerful declaration of love for the end product of all that work; a justification of the effort expended.
Enjoy. Peace. Jason. Don.
Elevate released!
Elevate – Like everyone, I’ve been dealing with stress and anxiety. It had begun to affect me; I was acting differently, which was concerning. So I decided to write down a list of words and phrases that would give me strength, and remind me of who I am, and what is important to me. The words became part-mantra / part-affirmation / part-value statement / part-pep rally. I took those words and turned them into the lyrics for this RAUCOUS-JUMP-AROUND-THE-LIVING ROOM-POSITIVITY BOMB of a song!!! Be safe. Enjoy.Peace.Jason.Don
Come And Be With Me released!
Come And Be With Me — The idea for this sad, slow-tempo song began when I came up with the lyric scrap: cinder block boys and blown glass girls. I fell in love with the implied contradictions; implied incompatibilities. The song was built up from there and was written rather quickly. However, getting the final recording to sound just right was another story. Don and I labored over the engineering and mixing for several months. Simple proved to be difficult. All the effort was worth it; the recording sounds fantastic. Enjoy. Peace.Jason.