Scott Solter

  • Folk Implosion single out today, first leg of summer tour announced!

  • Top 40 Over 40.33: Blemish

    I think I’ve found my personal record of the year. It’s Roberta Flack’s First Take. There’s a song on it called I Told Jesus that joins Jesus is Waiting by Al Green as the only songs that give me a feel for what it is about Christianity that moves people. (I was raised in a…

  • Arches & Pathways: New Album with Dennis Callaci Streaming Now!

    Arches & Pathways: New Album with Dennis Callaci Streaming Now!

    I have a new record coming out on 11/20/20 that I made with my friend Dennis Callaci at his house in July of 2019, fresh off a fun tour of New Zealand and Australia. It comes out on Friday but you can stream the whole thing via Magnet Magazine online, right now. It was mixed…

  • Top 40 Over 40.27: No Protection

    Remixes usually disappoint me.  I often imagine it’s because they’re run off quickly without the remixer having an in person musical relationship with the artist they’re remixing.  I didn’t really dig either the UNKLE or Dust Brothers remixes that were done of Folk Implosion’s Natural One & Insinuation.  When One Part Lullaby came out in…

  • Gnawing on the Bone now available!

    Gnawing on the Bone now available!

    The upcoming releases section of this website has felt a bit like a closet in need of cleaning out.  That load has lightened as of yesterday with the digital release on Bandcamp of Gnawing on the Bone.  This is an instrumental project that was written in Watertown MA in 2011 in one sitting as a…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.17: Noah’s ARC

    I haven’t been geeking out on software as much as I was when I started this series of posts on software ironically titled after a lyric from a Minor Threat song, a band that sure as hell never used any damn software.  I’ve been refraining from buying new plug-ins* in favor of making sure the…

  • Mixing complete! Going to Georgia…with a Heart Like a Starfish.

    Just a quick word to share the news that Scott Solter and I have finished mixing our new record and it is now headed for mastering.  I will of course share details about its release as they become available.  I’d like to thank Scott for all the hard work he put into producing this project…

  • Top 40 over 40.19: Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali Live in Concert

    In this series of posts on musicians doing high quality work after 40, little has been said about their audience.  Today’s post will start out with them first.  Last October, I went to see the Pakistani group Rizwan-Muazzam perform at the Reynolds Industries theater at Duke University.  I knew little about these performers from Pakistan, other…

  • The Core is Getting Soft.13: Trackball Runs Over Mouse

    People who are interested in gear like to thing big.  Big things, big bucks, big sounds, big….balls, implicitly. But sometimes it’s the little things that get used the most.  While working towards completing my new record with producer Scott Solter, a frequent theme of our conversations has been poking fun at gear hounds who elevate…

  • Kickstarter up and running today

    I launched a Kickstarter campaign to help pay for my forthcoming album today.  You can check out the project description and rewards here. I just got back from spending 4 days recording with Scott Solter, Peter Hughes, Andrew Hiller and Louis Landry at Mitch Easter’s Fidelitorium Recording Studio in Kernersville, NC, (pictured above.)  One of…