The debut album “Little Diamonds” will drop on November 13th on all streaming services. Reflecting a diverse mix of cultures, perspectives, and musical influences, it is an eclectic mix of songs that I have composed over the past 3-4 years, and tells a deeply personal story of my 50 years of wandering around this planet.
One of the unique aspects of this musical journey are the collaborations that are represented in this music and the album artwork. Here’s a quick story: in 1989 I started high school at Marin Academy, in San Rafael, CA. One of my first friends was Josh Kamler - a skater kid and artist from San Anselmo and San Francisco, and son of the late Bay Area artist and activist Richard Kamler. Josh and I have had many adventures over the years, and been very close friends for almost four decades. More recently, we both have ventured into creating music, both separately and in collaboration, mostly as a hobby and a way to have fun and be creative than anything that we ever took too seriously. Currently, Josh is a professional writer and an artist, living in Alameda, CA with his wife Celina and two sons Maceo and Carmelo.
For the Little Diamonds album, Josh is lead vocalist on “I Like You Better”, which was born out of a musical recording session during a weekend in Pacifica years ago with Aaron Chan (producer and engineer for “Little Diamonds” - I’ll get to that story in a future post). Josh is the artist who developed the album cover art, the inspiration for which comes from his project called "One Thousand Robots" -where he draws a robot a day until he reaches 1,000. Check out and follow this amazing project and some of the unique artwork that he has developed @one_thousand_robots
The album cover shows a robot holding a guitar, looking wonderingly up at the stars, reflecting how each looks like a Little Diamond from his perspective, but which actually represent entire universes of their own, with unknowable histories, unfathomable stories, and infinite possibilities…