Hey Fans, I know it’s been a minute, to borrow a phrase from the Millennials and or socialites. A lot has gone on in my personal life as of late. In addition to a new job, relocating on very short notice, and ending up in a hostile neighborhood, I also had a death of a very close family member on top of everything else. So, I’ve been rather stressed and occupied as of late. I do want to take a minute to thank you all so much for your support and encouragement. Your loyalty has touched me deeply and I find it a joy to receive messages from you all, especially when it’s a dark time for me. That seems to be more the norm these days. There have been a few magnificent milestones that I really didn’t think would happen yet, but they did, and it wasn’t just once, but a few times. First, The Calling went to #4 last summer on the N1M charts. I figured that would be the last I saw of hitting the charts that far up, but then not too long after, I hit #1! But that wouldn’t be the only time. Over the ensuing months, I would hit #1 with various releases. Wow! You had a hand in this. However, there is something that I’m going to reveal. See, I’ve been trying to develop additional streams of income outside my day job. So, at a suggestion of a new fan, I decided to stream my music in the background on mute with Spotify and Amazon Music. It’s brought in a paltry $175 or so. It’s not much, it’s not violating the terms of use. I mean, I do pay for the services and such, so there’s overhead there. But I’m wondering if that’s not had of a major part of why I ranked so high on the N1M charts, because I don’t know where the metrics are being drawn from. In short, I give you all credit for your support, but I’ve also been cheating a bit to augment the numbers. You can hate me now. So what am I working on? Well, I’m trying to get a hold of the old studio I recorded at to recover the tracks that didn’t get released with ancestral Voices. Yes, I lost my copies of the masters when I lost my house. That’s a long and sad story there. So as soon as I can get ahold of those, I’ll arrange the songs, put together some artwork, and put it out there. Hopefully, there will be more to come with that, and I’ll let you know. I’m also releasing all the rest of the Ancestral Voices tracks as well as the stuff from Primal Space, a collaboration that I was involved with back in 2007 and 2008. It seems I’m getting some surprising traction with that. Though, to be honest, I hate listening to it as it sounds like armature crap. Okay. Since we’re talking about crap, many of you have been hounding me about any new material; and I’m sure it’s beyond what’s currently written. To be honest, I’m having a hard time generating any new and decent material. I mentioned before how I had dreams about being the Native American answer to Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. That and I also talked about doing some shamanic trance or techno. I was just throwing ideas out there as I’ve played along with many different genres before with some success. The problem is this: I can’t find anybody willing to collaborate with me and on top of that, trust them. I’ve been burned so many times in my pathetic career, I’m not sure if there’s anyone out there who has any bit of character at all. Oh well. It’s what God wants and what he’ll get. Thy will be done, mofo. I just can’t do creation, marketing, and promoting, all while trying to make ends meet. Yet it seems that if I’m to do anything I have to shoulder the whole burden and do all this stuff to make my achievement quota for this life. Sorry. It is not going to happen. Without support, the dream is not worth bringing to fruition. Having said all this, I just can’t find any lasting inspiration enough to create anything more right now. I could throw stuff together, but let’s face it. It would be an insult to you all if I put junk out and it’s not a work of art. I may create crap, but I won’t insult your intelligence and taste by releasing crap. I may be a crappy artist, but I sure as hell am not going to foist it on innocent people. The pressure on me is just way to much to meet those demands of quality. Now that I’ve completely rained on my own parade, I want to thank you all for your support and love; and know that I love you all back. You’ve been some of the few blessings that have been keeping me going while I’m going through one part of hell after another. Take care, WSE.