Blog – Todd Whisler

06 September 2017

Album Notes – Portland

Portland recorded July 2016 – June 2017 In late 2014, after Imaginary Love Ballads had been completed, I suddenly remembered the midsection to the song Story and realized I had always meant...

26 January 2016

Album Notes – Imaginary Love Ballads

Album Notes

Imaginary Love Ballads recorded February – September 2014 Sometime in 2013, after vowing in 2005 never again to record any original music, I realized that through good fortune in my...

18 November 2015

Album Notes – To Be A Star

Album Notes

To Be A Star – recorded September 2001 – May 2005. How do you write the best album of your life? Mine began when the fourteen year old daughter of...

18 October 2015

Album Notes – Cryptomania

Album Notes

Cryptomania – recorded March through October 2001 The best musical statement I have ever been a participant in has my least inspired playing. Perhaps it’s a cop-out to blame the...

18 September 2015

Album Notes – No Concept Of Key

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No Concept Of Key – recorded November 1999 – March 2000 I spent a good 6 months mulling over Terry, appreciating both how incredible a feeling it was to hear...

18 August 2015

Album Notes – Terry

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Terry – recorded June – December 1997 During the recording of Leyth’s and my second album Audiofiction, I began to get to know the engineer Jim Pavett better. I learned...

18 May 2015

Album Notes – Audiofiction

Album Notes

Audiofiction – recorded February – April 1997 Almost immediately upon concluding the recording and mixing of our debut CD A Perfect E, Leyth and I began making plans for a...

26 January 2015

Album Notes – A Perfect E

Album Notes

A Perfect E recorded April – June 1996 I met Leyth Mulla in San Diego in late October or early November of 1987. We were introduced by a mutual friend...