About
I have a tendency to ramble. So, since I don’t want you to hate me before you know who I am, here’s my attempt a brief history:
Our Twilight Pastime is the name I’ve been putting music out under since mid-2004.
Back then, OTP was more instrumental and layered (check out Selcouth/Sysiphian in the music section). It didn’t make much sense to me to call an EP of mostly instrumental tracks “Mike Goldense,” and since I enjoy naming things, I called the project “Our Twilight Pastime.”
Eventually, the project began to evolve, and started to include some singer/songwriter type songs that I wasn’t using for the band I was in, Let’s Go Exploring. These songs started adding up, and I put some of them on a split with Space Marine 17 (Yo Banana Boy), saving the rest for “the full length” I had planned for the future. In November of 2005, I played my first show under the Our Twilight Pastime moniker, and made a CD to give out for free: De(mo)caffeinated. I did the same thing in January of 2006 at the second show I played as OTP: The Wave EP.
In early 2006, I collected songs spanning from Yo Banana Boy, to The Wave EP, to a song I recorded while in the final mixing process (Small Tribute), and put them on the long-awaited (for me at least) full length: Terra Firma.
There’s a sense of anxiousness when you release a CD. You want everyone to listen to it and tell you what they think of it. There’s also a sense of relief, since you worked so hard on it for so long. I also found out there’s a sort of sadness, since you just put all your songs out there, and don’t have any new ones or new albums to look forward to creating. Since Terra Firma, I’ve been thinking about what my next release would be. Gathering tracks as I wrote them, organizing them, remixing them.
At the very end of 2007, I released Drunken Sailors. It’s my latest release, as I write this, and I’m very proud of the little guy.
I love sharing music. It means more to me that someone would want to listen to my songs than it would to have a few extra bucks in my pocket. The name Our Twilight Pastime, to me, always meant: those things that we do, that we love to do, but will never get paid to do. Sometimes they go unrecognized; sometimes they’re loved; sometimes the world shrugs them off. But no matter what, we keep doing them, because we love to. This is my attitude on music, and because I enjoy creating it, I like sharing it with you guys. So head over to the music section and download away!
Have a wonderful day.
mike_________*__