Hello my friends, and welcome to another edition of the Gimli Gazette, where people from around the world gather to read my perspectives on life, liberty, and the pursuit of horse cookies!
My focus this week will be on a single question from a young lady. She asks, “How many songs do you have for your next recording?” That is a very good question, and I am glad that you asked it.
As an artist as well as a musician (and so much more!), what I produce in the studio is more than a mere collection of pop songs. My musical stylings are an artform that cannot be confined to a four-minute recording suitable for radio airplay. They are artistic expressions suitable for a concert hall or a musical gallery.
While my music portfolio is bursting with numerous compositions, my current thought is to merge them into one continuous sonic experience, filling the recording with an overwhelming flow of melodies, harmonies, and overtones of delight. The listener will be swept off their feet as their auditory senses are immersed in a cosmic dance which I will create for them.
Song will merge into song, as the audience will be unable to tell where one tune ends, and another begins. They soon will be lost in a musical ecstasy that will fill space and time with the melodies of Gimli Black.
This recording will be a surrealistic masterpiece that one will wish would never end. In short, one will come away not counting the number of songs on a CD, but declaring in amazement, “I have been in the presence of brilliance — I have felt the musical essence of Gimli Black!”
This will be a radical new departure in equine music. Humans have tried their best to write horse songs; and in my humble opinion, they have failed miserably. Tunes like Back in the Saddle Again, A Horse with No Name, Wildfire, and even the theme song from the television show Mr. Ed, the Talking Horse pale before my corpus of compositions.
This is why I do my best work at 3am, when only Miss Mo and Ladyhawke are listening. I fear that the world is not ready to receive my art. Even human Avant Garde recordings seem dated when compared to my equine cutting edge productions.
That is why you have not seen my recordings available for sale online or in music stores. Many dealers have told me that they feel unworthy to carry my brand. They cannot put a price on my music. To sell my recordings would be like putting a price tag on a sunset. Some things are meant to behold, and not to commodify for the unwashed masses in the marketplace.
Well, I hope that answers your question. I could give you a private concert if you were to swing by my paddock at 3am, but that would probably trigger the paparazzi and wake the neighbors, so we best not do it. Just imagine the angels singing in your mind and ears, and you will come close to experiencing my music.
Happy Trails,
Gimli July 31, 2023