I had always dreamed of recording a complete album of my songs. After completing the eight efforts I just posted here, I compiled them together onto a master tape titled Dichotomy and distributed it on cassette tape to friends. This was somewhere around 1986, as I recall.

For a while, this satisfied my Muse, especially since at the time I was working rather regularly in the film industry as a writer, producer, and directory of educational films, industrials, and small budget commercials – even a music video for a local band.

As time went on, I began to think about the possibility of a second album of songs with lyrics, rather than just the instrumentals of the first album. Now I’m a poor musician and an atrocious singer, but a pretty good composer. So, the prospects of this new album were not stellar from the get-go.

Still, I resolved to do my best so that the songs I was hearing in my head at least might be shared with others, even if the performance was sorely lacking despite good intentions.

The next few posts present the individual songs from this first vocal album, titled Tarnished Karma.