Radiant Obscurity and Boston adventures

The Radiant Obscurity Collective regrouped on May 7-11 to continue work on our upcoming record...which we hope to release in August for the 1 year anniversary of our debut tour.  With our normal bass player, Asa Spring, teaching English in Korea, we welcomed Josiah Contreras (a.k.a. Red Elk) who played bass on one new track.  The recording went smoothly and we have the album nearly ready for mixing, thanks especially to the hard work of our fantastic engineer, Bradley Robertson and the hospitality of the Cloud Club and our friend, Bailey Hein of Neck.

On Friday, Natalia Guerrero, the host of "Voice Box" on WMBR-88.1 FM (Cambridge, MA) invited me to join her to talk about Radiant Obscurity's new record and preview some of the tracks from our upcoming record.  We also played a recording from the debut of a "Regina Caeli," written by a DC friend, Ben Yuly.  Ben is a really talented composer who had an exciting spring, with premieres of this "Regina Caeli" and also "Rekindled," commissioned and premiered by the CUA Wind Ensemble.  Congratulations, Ben!  It was a lot of fun to be back in the WMBR studios; thanks Natalia for being interested in our music!

My dear friend, Eli Roberts, also deserves a shout out...not just for his work on the Radiant Obscurity record, but also for letting me crash with him for a week AND for helping to set up a reading session for a new piece of chamber music ("Le Tombeau Enceinte: A Meditation on Holy Saturday") that I completed this spring.  If you don't know Eli's music, you should totally check it out!