Flashback, 1993...1993 was a new year with new ideas and a fresh look at creativity on the music front! Gone were the days of 'Measure for Measure', 'No More Mr Nice Guy', and 'Look Into The Light'. Although they are some of my more memorable tunes, I really believed they lacked in production value. What could I do? With limited resources for songwriting and recording, I had to make due with something less than professional. Bringing in the PSR-500 and a new attitude about music technology it was only fitting to create from the ground up. Not only that, I felt it was a time to change how I represent myself. The days of using D.H. Chandler, or David H. Chandler, or D.H.C. were done. My name was worn out and bored to death. It was time to come up with a Moniker. Trent Reznor did this by calling himself Nine Inch Nails (although they are a full-fledged band now), Richard James calls himself Aphex Twin. Ozzy could get away with using his name to sell his records because he has a cool name. Same with Miles Davis or Frank Zappa, their names were Rock and Roll. David Chandler was not a Rock and Roll name, nor was it even an Alt-rock name. My name would fit more into a stage name for someone like my grandfather who was a night club act in the '40's and 50's, that would be cool then but seriously using my real name is just downright BORING!
What should I call myself then?
I cannot remember where the name Prismatic came from. Perhaps I was just beating names through my head and I just thought Prismatic sounded cool. This is how I would come up with release titles when it came time to name my latest CD (or in this case, cassette) so I'm thinking that's how it all worked out. I just thought the name slipped off the tongue and it fit my style of music at the time.
As mentioned in previous posts, I had approached a few classmates about some of the new material I had been working on. Two songs, 'Lost (Inside Your Eyes)' and 'Crawl (You and Me)' were something that I presented to them and were very impressed. The aforementioned classmates and friends were T. Harris Utain, Hal Strong, and Vince Mount. They had expressed to me that they were interested in a future recording project where we would all submit any and all material we had been working on and this would end up being a recording we would release independently. Unfortunately, this project never got off the ground which was a shame because I was dealing with some very talented people. However, T. Harris did collaborate with me on an instrumental titled 'Casm'. I will be posting this song very soon as I contribute more to the Blogline Endeavor.
Since the idea of a recording collaboration had fallen though the cracks, Prismatic stayed a solo project and I had written and recorded several songs that became the first official self-titled Prismatic cassette release. Song tracks included 'Lost (Inside your Eyes)', 'Crawl (You and Me), 'Last Hurrah', 'Prismatic (You Feel Space)', 'Footstep Paranoia', 'Bossa Me Lost Ya', and of course 'Casm'. I will be posting these songs to the SUB ONE blog in the coming days so check back often.
