***Update: My debut album, 10 Million Ways to Say Goodbye, is now available through most online music distributors including iTunes and Amazon and is also free to stream on Spotify and Bandcamp!***
Some of you may not know this but for many years before I wrote fiction, I was (and I guess still am) a musician. I sang, played guitar, bass, keyboards, piano since I was about 12 years old. From 1998 to 2000 I sang, played guitar, and wrote music for the Indianapolis based band LIFT and from 2000 to 2001 I sang in the band Godtrip. In 2001 I also played guitar for a very short stint in the band Resurface. Between 2001 and 2003 under the moniker ESCAPE FROM SATURN I recorded about 20 industrial rock/metal songs with a 233MHZ Compaq desktop computer, a Shure SM57 microphone, and a crappy Creative Labs sound card and somehow managed to end up with a fairly listenable 17 track album titled 10 Million Ways to Say Goodbye. I released it myself online to a handful of friends. Without a backup band to help promote it, it didn't really get the attention I felt it deserved. But such is life.
Years later I recorded some acoustic songs that had a totally different vibe, then I started experimenting with some acoustic versions of the ESCAPE FROM SATURN songs and realized what I was working on was different enough from EFS to warrant a new title. Hence LiberatedServant. I recorded several demo songs and had planned to compile them together as a short EP called River's Rising and never ended up getting around to it.
In 2005 I started the metal band Burning Alive which dissolved quickly into another solo recording project. Around 2006 to 2007 I did some mobile studio recording in both Indianapolis and Nashville and also sang in the metal band Kobayashi.
Cue this past year, I'm going through old files and find some of my music tracks, videos, etc. and I decided maybe it was time to give both albums a better shot. So, I recompiled 10 Million Ways to Say Goodbye, remixed the tracks for River's Rising and put them up on Amazon. They're now both available in CD and MP3 format on Amazon! You can listen to them below.
