Hey All!
If you’re new, welcome to my website!
If you’re anything like me, you believe that music is medicine… and all of us singers, songwriters, musicians and producers are in the audio-pharmaceutical business:)… I’m passionate about music that can get inside you and stick there somehow… inspired music has the ability to steer your whole emotional and intellectual life in the right direction. I love that. I’m excited about seeking that from the time I wake up until I’ve sapped all my creative energy. I thank God for the ability to wake up every day and get down to it…. and I’m really happy that you’re here to check it out:) Find a spot to leave your mark (comment)… say hi… say whatever is on your mind… act, react… and I hope I see you around.
Here’s the latest:
I recently released my third album, “MURDER YESTERDAY”… I dug deeper than ever on this… some things inside me needed to die… so I went for the kill… In a good way… sounds violent, but it’s not:)… it was cathartic… and one of the weapons I chose for this was a string quartet (The Section Quartet)! haha… Be judge and jury on the trial of my victims on iTunes! hmmmm Did I take the whole murder thing too far? hahaha it’s actually not an angry record… it’s really about emotional and spiritual rebirth… start with track # 11, “BLINK” and you’ll get the idea.
Check out this new review of “MURDER YESTERDAY” from iTunes…
I’ve recently become a lot more active on Twitter… so follow me and enjoy the nonsense:) @adamwattsmusic
I’ve been busy-busy-busy with RED DECIBEL, which is the writing/production team of myself, Andy Dodd and Gannin Arnold.
One of our favorite things to do is to help other artists find and express themselves… and that’s become a passion and focus recently with these artists:
JOEL PIPER (formerly the drummer/singer of CONFIDE). An amazing new pop/rock/mainstream artist. You’ll love this guy… we do… plus he’s a drummer/singer/songwriter: those are the best! haha
and:
COLTON DIXON (of American Idol’s Top 40). This dude is the real deal… and an old soul (in a good way!).
These are two GREAT new artists, we think you’ll hear a lot more of soon:)…
Also, check out these sites for daily updates on all things RED DECIBEL:
RED DECIBEL Facebook Page (like us!)
RED DECIBEL Twitter (follow us!)
* ADAM PARTICIPATES IN NEW CHRISTMAS ALBUM: Watts wrote and performed the song “This Christmas” for the upcoming album “A Christmas Together”. The album features a handful of artists from Orange County CA. including Jadon Lavik, Travis Ryan, Tim Timmons, Drew Bray and many others. The album will be available on iTunes as well as at live shows.
* The “Reckless” Single hit iTunes this past TUESDAY Sept. 14th. Pick it up!
* The full album “MURDER YESTERDAY” releases online worldwide (iTunes too of course) next week, Tuesday Sept. 21st. You can also pick up the album on that antique we call the CD… at shows and here on the website.
* We’ve re-released the “RECKLESS” Music Video. Check it out on the MEDIA page. Enjoy!
* We (Nic, Jules and I) are home for a couple days from the Cornelia Funke Get Reckless Tour. The New York City and Chicago were really fun. Awesome venues… check out the photos… If you were there, post something! The LA show has been cancelled, but we’re off to Seattle this Sunday for a matinee show. See you there!
Well, hello.
Yesterday was a very cool, very long, very awesome day.
Let me tell you howcome and why:
This new album I’m working on (Murder Yesterday) has been a long time coming. For me, the journey began when I was conceived in the womb… Ok I won’t go back that far (stupid). In many ways I guess the journey began about two years ago, with a song called “When Everything Else Is Gone”.
Here’s the thing, I LOVE the crap out of music. Listening to it and creating it. I really do… it’s a buddy, a friend, an enemy at times, a tool of communication, a crutch, a vocation, a gift, a lifeline, a blessing, a mood convertor, a life understander, a journal, etc. etc. but even though it’s all those things… it can’t be everything… or it can’t fully become the MAIN thing for me… and I’m always running the risk of that being the case, because music is also a drug of sorts… as a believer, that’s called making it an “idol”… I realize that could sound a bit propaganda-ish to some people… but that just translates to: “Hey kid, your priorities aren’t straight!”. SO, when I wrote that song I mentioned, it was from a genuine desire to find my sweet spot… to attempt to make sure I was doing things for the right reasons… with non-curvy (straight) priorities… and also to ask for Help in that. Yes, capital H help.
“When Everything Else Is Gone” is FULL of strings…. like orchestral strings… and I wrote and recorded it initially with fake (sampled) strings. And yesterday I was finally able to put the real thing on that song (and others!)… and WOW… I conceived the song 2 long years ago and it was born yesterday. That’s a long pregnancy…. especially for a man. So I’m very stoked with my newborn little baby. I would say that song is the center piece of this album… but the more I think about it, every song on this album is a kind of center piece for me… I know that may sound disingenuous, but it happens to be true. They all represent something pretty “epic” to me personally… it’s a good feeling… if only because I feel super-close to them, but also (to my infinite surprise) not overly attached. There’s not a misguided artistic desperation attached to them… I just feel this nice little cathartic-glow-joy about these songs. I find myself (in my head) shrugging and saying “I just hope people hear this stuff and are glad they did.”
We recorded string quartet on SIX SONGS yesterday… on some of them we layered takes to the point of it sounding like a huge orchestra. Fun (and lots of “work”)……… I realized why the violin, viola, cello are called strings: You gather up everything in the song, and what do you reach for to tie it all together? Strings! So, what about the songs without strings? Are those all untied? Nah, I used rope on those ones.
So to sum up (and because I just feel like writing some more): This record is filled with two years of stuff: a band came together and fell apart, I lived a drama, a comedy, a dramady and a thriller all wrapped up in a documentary… I had my fair share of self-doubt, I grew, I shrunk, had joy, pain felt insane and a lot more. I feel like this album is tying quite a few things together for me, and it feels pretty good… not overly good… just right-good.
A
Here’s a short little video of the string session…
Hello humans!
Welcome to my new website… A place where stuff happens, updates are updated, blogs are posted, music and videos are unveiled and everyone is invited.
Some of you may know me/my music from way back in 2003 from my first solo album “The Noise Inside” (BEC/EMI) or from the years following that (“Sleeping Fire” and various little EP’s etc.)…. while others of you may know me via my band FALLBORN (which disbanded earlier this year)… while still others of you may know me from my work with Andy Dodd: (Duck! Names are dropping!) Jeremy Camp, Switchfoot, all the Disney stuff etc. etc…. or maybe there’s even super-new visitors here via songs from my upcoming new album “MURDER YESTERDAY”………….. either way, we’re all here now (most of us anyway) and I’m glad you stopped by!
I hate to say it, because it’s so typical, but I’m actually, really, for reals, excited to share my new music with you all. I’m not just saying that… It’s mostly because it’s all very… saturated with…. ummm… well, just listen to it, yeah? Who likes to hear a dude ramble on about music before you’ve even heard it! Well, I do sometimes (and I’m already rambling) but…. how about, once you’ve heard it, and if you’re interested, I’ll definitely dig into sharing the why/what/when and where’s of it all… just ask (post a comment) and I’ll rant away, believe me:).
To me, writing music and creating creations is an important part of living and being alive, so at the risk of sounding pretentious, it all means quite a lot to me….. so feel free to ask (or share) anything from questions about the songs, to the recordings, to what my dog was doing during the process: whatever… Lets get into some sweet cyber-interaction via the world-wide-webinatrix… ’cause, though I may have narcissistic tendencies (all artists do), it’s not all about me, it’s about me and you… it’s about us:)
Okay… so this is hello, and goodbye for now, until soon.
Adam
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