Keyboardist/songwriter Neal Rosner is releasing a rare album titled “Love Isn’t The Answer.” As a limited edition, this album was first Released 1999, but only recently released to stores via DistroKid in 2024. Created at a time of maximal stress, maximal change, Divorce, the stupid MAN things we do…
Neal plays all instruments except guitar, which is played by Marty Mayer. Neal plays Keyboard percussion and drum machine midi with Korg 01W. He sings lead and backup vocals. Barbara Rosner on backup vocals and spoken word. Rae Nimeh, a brilliant engineer, who did early work w Disturbed, also worked on the album.
“I am a 72y/o Soon to be retired Radiologist. Music is my antidepressant therapy. Something I just have to do. Listening to music is an intimate communication with the artist’s brain. It gives a strange sense of immortality.” – Neal Rosner
Tracks
1. Love Isn’t the Answer – Closest thing to a techno/disco beat. Just Fun
2. Joanna – Kinda Santana meets calypso. Great guitar work by Marty Mayer.
3. Blame Me – The ultimate divorce song. The beginning spoken word based on a phone message from my very pissed off first wife.
4. Oblivion – A rocker in 6/8 time.
5. Little Egypt – One of many songs of the same title. The Belly Dancer at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. The enthusiasm of innocence.
6. Flagpole – Another rocker and an FU to an old friend.
7. Graduation Day – Another reflection of the changes… my graduation into another life. Brilliant guitar by Marty Mayer (Cal- City’s Finest).
8. The Ballad of Danny T – A naive romantic vision of a homeless person in the old Chicago Skid Row.
9. 10. DEJAME QUEDARME/ Let Me Stay – English and Spanish versions of the same song.
11. 12. Dios Bendiga Las Chicas/ God Bless the Ladies – English and Spanish versions of the same song.
13. CALLS – My attempt at juvenile Sophomoric humor.
14. Callyda – My symphonic instrumental. I am proud of this one. All instruments from a Korg 01W. The brass voices are the best and a very sensitive realistic vibrato. Brilliant engineering. Thanks Rae.