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Yours portly is knee-deep in composing my next album, Spooky Season III.  As of right now, I’ve completed seven of around ten or eleven planned tracks, and it’s shaping up to be much longer than my other releases.  In fact, I’ve already run out of space on Bandcamp for “extras” for the album.  Those “extras” are things like artwork, PDF scores, and videos, and it’s that last category that is taking up a great deal of space.

So I thought I’d give subscribers a bit of a preview of some of the material I’ve been writing.

Don’t worry, my freebie readers:  I’m going to share a piece with you, too, and note that all of these videos will be up on YouTube in October (so subscribe—it’s free!—to my YouTube channel and ring the bell if you want to get notified when those pop in a few weeks).

Here is the first piece I composed for the album, “Dancing in the Graveyard”; I composed it between 3-4 September 2024, according to my notes and information on Noteflight:

“Dancing in the Graveyard” is a playful oboe and bassoon with option tambora accompaniment. It’s a lively waltz in concert D minor.

I’m really loving composing this album, and I enjoy all of the tracks—and I hope you will, too!—but I’m keen to share some of my personal favorites.

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