melodic DIRT, a new grunge rock pop music with a gothic jazz surf metal twist, will be available to stream and listen to on Apple Music on June 30th 2015 ***update 7/21/15 Apple Music is experiencing delays with new music submissions… melodic DIRT should be available in a few weeks on Apple Music
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The decision was made to pull down the debut album from all online stores including iTunes so that the song order for melodic DIRT’s debut album could be changed. The new song order is now re-published to all online stores including iTunes.
The importance of this was pretty significant actually. I initially put a lot of time and effort contemplating the song order and previously wrote about it here. In that article I discussed how churning the song order during music production actually helped the development of the vocals. It helped because when I would have a breakthrough how I layered a vocal idea against a guitar track… I wanted to then explore applying that potentially to the other songs. And so the process went on, and on, until I felt it was done.
Well as time elapsed and had time to congeal, rest and contemplate. I figured out that I had the song order complete wrong. You see I have maybe 2 or 3 tunes that are more grunge rock pop than the other more grunge rock metal tunes. Out of the 7 debut ‘hit singles’ 😉 3 are conceptually different than the remaining 4.
Anyway, beyond the stylistic ordering of the songs.. I also discovered that story-wise the order also made a lot more sense in the current order that they are in now.
7/13/15 update*****the new song order is available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Rhapsody, Google Play, eMusic etc… basically anywhere you normally stream or download music, go check it out!
…this interesting mix results in music that by no means makes for easy-listening, but remains original and intriguing, despite the multitude of influences.
I liked how she listened to each song providing commentary about the whole album. It was fun to read another persons perspective about the music and I can tell she put some time into the review.
In summary she wrote:
If you’re looking for a tune which a commercial radio station may not play, then melodic DIRT album is what you need. And here’s exactly what Joe is winning you over with – not virtuosity but originality, because not many of you will be able to admit that they’d heard identical tunes before.
Thank you Katarzyna!
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The Recording Artist behind melodic DIRT, Joe, pays tribute to the Jazz Legends that helped shape the sound of this new grunge rock gothic jazz surf metal pop music on MLK Day.
From the video without the ah’s, um’s, da’s and whatever else my frozen head on that cold post gym workout day conjured up:
“Hey my name is Joe and I’m the recording artist behind melodic DIRT. It’s January 2015 and this was the year that the music of melodic DIRT was released… and it’s actually January 17th, MLK Day weekend and I just wanted to take this time to pay tribute to the Jazz Legends that have helped influence and shape the sound of melodic DIRT to some degree. I do categorize it as grunge rock with a gothic jazz surf metal twist and part of that jazz element, is people like, you know the influence of Jackie Mclean, Archie Shepp, Yusef Lateef, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk just to mention a few… Max Roach, Bud Powell, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, the list goes on… I’ve spent a few years studying jazz music as drummer actually, emulating jazz drummers like Elvin Jones, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor and so I just wanted to take a couple seconds here to pay tribute. So there you have it… peace out.”
I just wanted to add here that I had the great pleasure of getting to see some of these legends play live. I got the opportunity to talk with them, hang out and shoot the shit with them. Through University of Hartford I was able to meet Jackie Mclean. Through UMASS Amherst I was able to do the same with Yusef, Archie and Max. Max Roach played my drums one day right in front of me… it was awesome. These people are all top class extremely intelligent soulful people that have had a direct influence on my life as well as my music.
I was able to study drums with Stephen McCraven, Archie Schepps drummer, for a couple years out in Amherst before they both moved to Paris to gig along with Tom McClung. I consider these 3 as friends as I know if I were to run into them again it would seem like reuniting with old friends (though it’s been many years). They are my mentors and I have great respect and admiration for them.
Jackie Mclean once told me I reminded him of his son. I got in some trouble with another professor one time and had to go talk with Jackie about it. He was totally cool about the situation and understood completely how artist temperaments can sometimes flair.
I wanted to share all of this with you because I thought it was important to provide some insight into the music of melodic DIRT on a day where I think we should all pay tribute and recognize the positive influence that some in the black community have had on our lives. In these crazy times these days I think it’s important to focus on the positive and not get too caught up in the negative with regards to some rotten apples. They exist among every race.
For me, MLK Day brings me back to all the positive, productive and inspirational moments in my life that were the result of influential black people. And their lives are undoubtedly affected by the influence of MLK.
melodic DIRT, a new grunge rock pop music with a gothic jazz surf metal twist, will be available to stream and listen to on Apple Music on 
The decision was made to pull down the debut album from all online stores including iTunes so that the song order for melodic DIRT’s debut album could be changed. The new song order is now re-published to all online stores including iTunes.
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I wanted to thank KATARZYNA ‘NINa’ GÓRNISIEWICZ for her