March 2007
PKSAX World is this beautiful place inside my head where everything works out and all my dreams come true. I’m sure everyone has their unique personal version in their own heads, albeit some of us have shrunk the mental real estate dedicated to our hopes and dreams, in order to make more space for doubts, nightmares, and nagging regrets.
But the point is: Dare To Dream. Even if your dreams are childish, self-involved, and totally impractical, you have to start somewhere. So I did, and three CDs later I have expanded the real estate of my personal dreamspace to the point where I have enough room for a computer desk, a Captain-Kirk-esque office chair, and a bouncy yoga ball on which to prostrate myself when reality starts to infringe too much.
The three CDs represent my three musical projects:
1) PK Sax, the jazz/world music group has the CD “Texas Tenure.”
2) The Klemperer Group, an experimental/acid jazz ensemble, has the
CD “Man In Chamber.”
3) Manteca Beat, the roots/R&B band, has the CD “Manteca-licious!”
I’m hard at work, trying to expand the real estate of my dreamscape (hmmm…that sounds like a good title for a New Age Workshop…”Expanding The Real Estate Of Your Dreamscape”: a 2-day workshop in which you will learn techniques to realize your dreams, work through emotional blockages left over from past-life issues, free your inner child, and visualize the person you want to become. Only $350; lunch and weak lukewarm green tea will be provided…)
But I digress. What I meant to say was that, as I develop these projects, I hope to use the internet and my website to communicate and deepen the artistic scope of all my projects, musical, literary, educational, what-have-you. The first step will be to reorganize my main website (www.pksax.com) as the command center or clearinghouse for all my related projects. I am tentatively caling this main site “P.K.S.A.X. World Headquarters” which, after much introspection, I feel is less pretentious than “PKSAX Center For World Domination”… Of course I am open to creative suggestions, so feel free to creatively suggest.
As of now I have several weblinks that will direct interested parties to my various projects:
Manteca Beat has its own site at http://mantecabeat.pksax.com. There is also a MySpace page at www.myspace.com/mantecabeat.
PK Sax and The Klemperer Group will soon have their own linked sites. In the meantime, you can access information on these projects through www.pksax.com.
For internet CD sales and digital downloads you can go to CD Baby at cdbaby.com/cd/klemperer.
I guess that’s all for now. Feel free to leave a comment here, or drop me a line at paul@pksax.com.
Ciao,
Paul Klemperer