Cruising Altitude

Hello Y'all.  It's been some time since I've been recording, playing live and promoting the material and doing the first 2 albums.  It has been nothing less that 2 dreams come true. I've even done interviews, gotten great online radio exposure and enjoy a following of a small yet growing loyal listener base.  As with all things in life, certainly in music, changes happen and adjustments are made.  For a few minutes it feels weird to navigate the strange waters of uncertainty but if you have your goal in mind and not so much the moving parts, it really helps to hold one's ground I feel.  Finding the right perspective and having confidence kicks in and keeps you moving forward if you can find it. 
At this point I've been writing a lot and have really understood what I have made up to this point and pinpointed what makes the sound THE SOUND that is Leibowitz music.  I've kind of found the common thread that trails through all of it from the first songs I've ever written until now and the music I am making.  It will help me further define the sound on upcoming recordings and the sound will mutate but getting to this point of understanding my own musical direction is harder than one would think.  All I can tell you is that its effect will leave a listener with a feeling that it's not too derivative of anything that they really have heard, yet somehow sickeningly familiar.  It's because I want to recreate the feeling and effect that the music I love and that runs through my mind and cast it out.  It really has connected and I look foward to every new listener getting into this stuff and enjoying it.  It's not to be taken too seriously.  It really is only music and all of it fictional although I do try to be honest and truthful in my reporting.  Anyway, really was great to have The Beginning Of The Endless Search For Oblivion premiered on Tony Romero's show on Aiiradio.net on May 5h and being interviewed for that as well.  It seems many folks enjoyed it and I'll be back on the air with Tony sometime in the future with any luck!  This time around I will be premiering material with Ronald Marquiss, another amazing DJ and champion for independent artists.  There is an inside circle of folks who are like the Leibowitz musical family and I love hatching my schemes and rapping with these folks.  Onward and upward to Saturn Sound Studios (dig the alliteration for recording June 20 and 21st.  Times are good and I hope they are with you as well. 


Funfessionally,


Josh


Artist Links:


www.leibowitz.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/leibowitzmusic
www.reverbnation.com/leibowitzmusic

You Might As Well Try

And make a song that everyone will love for the sole purpose of going viral....and then go on creating as you please.  I was at a meeting yesterday with an engineer who runs one of the better studios down here and he had asked me the day earlier to bring by the albums I had done.  So when I made it there early and got to take a walk around I was happy to see that the space and gear was situated as I like and I rapped with the friendly studio manager for a bit.  These meetings in no way make me nervous.  I'm not here to impress anyone, just to see if it is suitable for me to start working here and test the waters.  In some regard, all I really need to do is be grateful that they let me come check out the place and talk and act accordingly.  So the engineer sat down at the mixing console and turned on the lights.  We started in on the particulars of music right away and he popped in Guitar For Money for 1 track.  Popped in "Oblivion" and let it just run on the house speakers.  He was impressed and I was not surprised about that but he was holding the CD and just smiling and saying that Martin Kornick's cover reminded him of "Children of Men" and that it was a relief that people were still making rock albums like this and mentioned that the sound was "hip".  He mentioned Norah Jones and a few other names and compared some aspects of their most recent work.  Now the music I'm making in no way sounds like some of the names I heard, to my ears anyway...but what made me happy was that the drumming on the 2nd album had really gotten his ears perked up enough to really consider what we could do with the drums this round with the resources available.  We also spoke of exposure and what that's been like and we all know the deal.  The landscape has eroded so much that bands with music worth listening to, and taste does vary, will undoubtedly go overlooked without constant thought, effort and persistence with regards to exposure.  Similar aspects and effects apply and trickle down to music studios, so the people who love the process of making music are very much all in the same pit of understanding the current state of music in terms of dollars and cents and common sense.  Anyway, we spoke of local radio stations and events we could do with audiences and things that were very constructive and promising.  I'm all about partnerships and grass roots beginnings and I'm not out to be famous, but even getting local gigs and fans takes a lot of exposure these days as venues will not risk a poor turnout in this economy and want to know there will be people there.  You can't blame them either.  It is a joy and honor just to know what I'm doing is heading in the right direction at this stage. Back to the beat.

Leibowitz

leibowitz.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-the-endless-search-for-oblivion
leibowitz.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-for-money
facebook.com/leibowitzmusic
reverbnation.com/leibowitzmusic