Faro and I spent the evening working on the next Duende project.

He’s creating a suite of music, probably 40 minutes long or so, for which I will write poetry from scratch. Presently, we’re thinking of a narrative piece — won’t get into the details of it just yet although there are two potential storylines to work with that may or may not end up intertwined; not sure yet.

Never done anything like this before. It’s scary, which is good for me. I think you have to scare yourself creatively all the time, so jumping off a cliff of this sort is extra good.

Tonight’s progress included laying down a bunch of rough bass tracks on the old 8-track digital recorder, just good enough for me to move to the laptop for further review so I’ve got something to work against.

We also went over some other conceptual ideas for the project, then I taught him the guitar line to the piece I just put on Myspace (“Winter Sermon”) so we could possibly play it live in the future (for the life of me I can’t do poetry and play the guitar at the same time). This means, of course, I have to pull together the improvised poem I threw down over the original track and make it tight and right.

Lots of work to do.

After we were done, we watched most of the Pats game and then some video footage of Lindsey Buckingham (God, I love to listen to and watch that guy play) and Jeff Beck with this PHENOMENAL young bass player — a 21 year old woman from Australia named Tal Wilkenfeld. Check her out if you don’t know her.

Duende’s next gig is at Jester’s Cafe in Westfield on Jan. 21. I’ll be back on later today with more info and some thoughts on this gig and venue; important stuff, I should mention.

Off to bed. GET SOME SLEEP!!!