Mister Bubbles

So we here at Mr. Bubbles music factory assumed we were done. Because we said, "Half the Distance" is finished. We listen to us. But we shouldn't, because we lie, especially to ourselves. So HTD is getting one more tune. Oddly or not, it's the very song we started Half the Distance with, Never Walk Alone. It is a song from an obscure 80s band in Philly that always stuck with me. Usually, when starting a new project, one messes about with familiar things to get back in the groove. Groove attained, the tune was abandoned until the other day. All the hard bits were done. So I added a guitar, redid the bass, cut the vocals, added way too many keyboards, tripled the snare, and made a jolly old day of it. It will go live before the New Year because that's how we do. 

Rock on!

Mr. Bubbles

Three releases in the last few months, rounding out to 8 this year's collection called, Half the Distance. A few more are nearly ready but not going to make it by the end o' the year for various reasons. Ballwatching, Our Christmas Song, and the soon-to-be-live Wouldn't Go Back beg for your attention. Well, not beg, vie perhaps. The songs are the usual peppy slices of positivism or whatever the opposite of that is. New look to the site and possible posting of all the lyrics, though that makes it seem like work. January will see the release of the first of 2022's collection entitled, A Soupçon of Mercy. 

Happy New Year etc.

Mr. Bubbles

Adam's Fall is out in the world now. Another tune that took a circuitous route. One never lacks inspiration if the mind never rests ... but one can suffer a lack of interest. (Should I keep using "one" to keep up my pretentious ways?) I decided, as I often do, to rework for the second time one of my very few ballads. I do not excel at ballads. No reason, no judgment, just never been my forte. I came up with lots of new bits and even got to cutting the vocal when I decided I just wasn't feeling it. Not sure if you decide about feelings but I friggin' did. Then the line about having planter's blood popped into my head and I was off to the races. The Bubbles' libretto is full of tunes about the most basic of things, not love but existence. Distill them at your peril, but there it is. Now I must have a Fresca.

xoxoxo

Mister Bubbles

Hey Beautiful People, 

Hope all is well what with the drought, the pandemic, the aliens and the burgeoning end times. New release this week, https://open.spotify.com/album/77O9VoxQLV0HKqIp0tk2u0?si=Dy9455HcQJmwpDIV7wuHiQ&dl_branch=1 The song is a punked-up version of an old ballad of a compadre of mine, Mr. D'Aulerio. We've nearly written quite a few songs together and we still play in The Willies. Not this song though. I've always liked the song and started out making a faithful recreation but as a non-believer that proved difficult and so I 'roided it up and am fond of the new version. I dropped Time off the title to save money. The link is for Spotify but it's making its way around to all the services. Speaking of which, my loyal ones of followers, I'm shocked by how many streams and saves Songs from the Bubble has gotten. For which I say, faux humbly, gratzie. 

In a completed unrelated aside. Summer of Soul is amazing. And sad. Please watch. 

Work continues apace on Half the Distance, the stupid name for my 2021 tunes. Releases, like those individuals on a plant-based diet, should be more regular. 

All the love, 

Mr. Bubbles.

So right after finishing Songs from the Bubble, I was working on the next one, ultimately to be called Half the Distance.

I'd spent enough time recording, mixing, and mastering to not want to lose my chops and I had a number of songs on the go in terms of composition. As always, sometimes, I went back to the fault for a few and recorded decent versions of them. Six months later and I'm just getting to releasing the first one with another 8 or so in various stages of completion. Going live this week on all the fun streaming spots is "Amiright" as sung by Roxxy Bleu. I should finish one up every few weeks or so, but at least every month so there will be plenty of music to ruin your summer. 

RTFO!

Mister Bubbles

Berlin

Songs from the Bubble has done better than anything ever. Which is nice. 

Halfway through the next collection but need to start finishing the stuff up and getting it out. My favorite part is the writing and sculpting of the songs and coming up with the bits y bobs. That's the easy part. Will have more guests on the tunes because that too is part of the fun. For a shut-in recluse misanthrope. 

Also, thank you Paris for the surprising amount of listeners. It does help with the ennui, no? Anyway, first song will drop within a month and it will be fantastic. 

xoxoxo

Mr. Bubbles

The Sorbonne

Ten tunes produced on the edge of apocalypse. But much more fun than that. I'm pleased with this collection; it has variety, rage, humor and existential angst. All in 4/4. Friends contributed bits and baubles on the music, production and arts and we mastered it at Abbey Road. There will be vinyl. It will sound great on vinyl but it's a slow process ... especially in the streaming age. But where are going? Do you have something else to do? 

Meanwhile check it out on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music and billions of other places. And thank you for being you. 

xoxox

Bubbles

Smyrna, DE

False hope is so much better than accurate hope and I traffic in it. Will 2021 be any different from 2020? Yes, it will have a 1 in it. Songs from the Bubble has been mastered, will soon be available digitally and then on vinyl. Excited about the vinyl, it's what's for dinner. It's Mr. Bubbles first foray into the vinyl world and damn, analogue takes time. Duplication is a months long process apparently. It makes sense though... if you bring a dinosaur technology back to life, it's bound to be a bit wobbly. At first and then, the running, the screaming and we have a new tentpole! Or something. Songs from the Bubble has new mixes and mastering of ten groovy songs. Work has already begun on the follow-up because I don't think I'll go out this year either. But I might. You hang up first. 

Love, 

Bubbles

Puerto Banús

So we're closing again, the state that is. The state of uncertainty! Also Pennsylvania. And yet are we ever truly closed if we open our hearts? Probably. I can't really back that up, don't even know why I said it. But look on the brightest of bright sides. This morning I approved the masters for Songs from the Bubble. Next week I'll get the lacquer and before you get the vaccine, we'll have the vinyl. And everything will be better in 2021!. We'll see. 

Rock on.

Hey beautiful people! The ten tracks that make up songs from the Bubble have made their way to the UK for mastering for vinyl. Want one? Ping me here. I'm happy with the collection of tunes. And you will be too. I insist. One hears certain sounds and what can one say other than... Bubbles. I love the vinyl damn it!

All the love,

Bubbles