If you are interested I'd like to take the opportunity to fill you in
briefly on my activities since 1982 and my current projects and plans.
1983-1984: I worked with Fiction Factory from Perth Scotland on their
hit single Feels Like Heaven and follow up album Throw The Warped Wheel Out.
1984-1989: I moved to Milan Italy where I lived and worked as a
session musician with several Italian musicians and bands.
1989-2006: I went into an extended period of seclusion with the Church
Of Scientology where I worked as a sound engineer and musician in
Italy and ultimately at their Film/Sound Studio called Golden Era
Productions in California.
2006-Present: Moved on from the Scientology experience and located
myself in Brooklyn New York where I now live and work.
My artist web sites are as follows:
www.myspace.com/blackscot
www.youtube.com/user/blaxcot
Current project: Last year saw the release of my first CD after two
years of research into the life and works of Robert Burns. This CD consists of five of my own
songs and six of Robert Burns'. This project revisits Burns' immortal
memory and universal message in the context of contemporary music
technology and style. As such the sound is a blend of funky reggae
with my own stamp. The production is entirely my own. I composed,
arranged and performed the CD as well as designing the cover art,
mastering the final tracks and financing the replication of the final
product. Apart from being dear to my heart as a native of Ayrshire
(Burns country in Scotland) I am also a big fan of his poetry and
consider his legacy one of the most important cultural contributions
not only in Scotland but the world over. To that end this is an
on-going project for which I am currently writing and producing
material for a second CD.
I am writing to you at this time after a long period of preparation
and production during which I have been readying myself for the
presentation of my work as a solo artist. Living in New York for the
last two and a half years is the touch that awakens a flood of
creative energy in me to the point where I am now producing what I
consider to be my best work ever. I invite you and all interested
Simple Minds fans to visit my artist web-sites, read my blogs, listen
to my music and send me your feedback.
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