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Music

Imprint

TRACK	TITLE
1	Promises
2	Never Turn Back
3	Silver Sting
4	Our Best Wasn't Enough
5	Late Thaw
6	Take It Apart
7	Choices
8	Your Gaze
9	Imprint
10	Undone
11	A Chance to Get It Right
12	Love and Pride

About this album

The more immediate history of this album dates to 2005, when I continued my efforts to build a home recording studio after an aborted effort in 2001. (The tech bubble had just burst then.)

I was listening to absolute ego by Japanese pop artist ACO, and the album straddled many fine lines between jazz, electronica and pop. It reminded me of a vague idea I had around 2003 that some of my earliest songs — from the late '80s — could be fashioned into a similar kind of album.

The earliest history of this album dates back to 1987, when I started high school. I wrote two songs — "Promises" and "Silver Sting" — that didn't sound like an imitation of whatever I was listening to at the time.

Those songs were influenced by the AOR hitmakers of the day -- Basia, Sade, Swing Out Sister, Hiroshima, even Tears for Fears. When I set out to write a full album of material, I went back to these influences and mixed them up with more recent influences -- namely, ACO, with some Cocco, UA and fra-foa on the side.

Imprint is the result. It's what happens when too much Japanese indie rock seeps into jazz-pop from the '80s.