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Mike Scott stays busy home-recording during quarantine
The COVID-19 lockdown hasn't slowed Waterboys anchor Mike Scott.
In the past few admittedly oppressive months, he remixed and remastered a new band record, "Good Luck, Seeker" he finished in December and applied that same process to a poetry-based work, 2011's "An Appointment With Mr. Yeats."
He also wrote and recorded a new possibly pandemic-linked concept album - he's not divulging more yet - that's ready for release.
"Ever since then, I've been making videos for 'Good Luck, Seeker,' so I've been very, very busy," says Scott, sounding calm and sedate, phoning from Dublin. "So I'm just taking it as it comes, really."
Scott, 61, shares the spiritual and philosophical wisdom he's acquired over the years on "Seeker" songs "The Golden Work," "Beauty in Repetition" and the title track, inspired by the writings of English poet-theologian Charles Williams; philosopher William James, known as the father of American psychology; and U.K. occultist Dion Fortune.
He's happy to share his work ethic secrets, as well.
With his wife, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi, temporarily quarantined in Tokyo, he has had two different types of...