Reverend Glasseye stopped by the studio a couple of weeks ago to wow us with the newest songs he’s been working on. It was just him with his guitar, and two cellists backing him up. Sounds like it’s going to be some sad music, yes? Well, mostly. It was a beautiful and sometimes melancholy rollercoaster ride of emotion.
Glasseye has been working with a local theater company scoring their production of Woyzeck. He played some songs from that, and some songs so new he has never recorded them before. The whole evening was bittersweet, because while it was a meeting between friends it was also a parting of friends. Well, at least for a time. The Rev is moving to India for awhile, hopefully not more than a year but then again, who knows where the world and life will take him? When he did this recording he only had about a week and a half before he hopped on a plane to leave all of his friends and live a new life among strangers in a land of beautiful poverty.
The music he has given us is wonderful and strange, just like the Rev himself. I hope you enjoy what he gave us in the studio that night. I know I do.
Here’s a link to the Archive.org page where you can stream or download all of these songs for free. True to what I promised with the last post, these are all cut up into tracks (thanks Nick Dement!) so they are mp3-player-friendly.
http://www.archive.org/details/ReverendGlasseye-liveOnKaosRadio2011
Here’s a video shot during the session. A happysad song called Holocaust.
