Hayden Wayne & Jason Damico - Panoply Damico & Wayne (CD)

Release Date: 05/06/22

Song form is essential to master before any composer can move on to larger compositional forms. From a collection of over 300 songs, this is volume I

Song form is essential to master before any composer can move on to larger compositional forms. From a collection of over three hundred songs, this is the first volume ranging in styles from ballad to rock 'n' roll, to vaudeville to art, to Motown to country, to swing to funk to pop, to blues and jazz.

After my return from touring with Jobriath, late September '74, I became conscious I was not composing. Starting March of 1975, I began a discipline of creating one song a week, accumulating sixty-five in ten months. By January, the next year, I doubled my efforts composing another hundred songs by year's end. I would subsequently broaden my vision into songs-suites, musical theater, Circus, Street Opera, Grand Opera, chamber music, concerti, symphony and choral symphony, four hundred works and growing.

I first met Jason in 2007, when he was thirteen years old, sitting on a train with his mother. As we entered into conversation, it immediately became clear this young man was rather precocious. Lights were on and somebody was definitely home! His mother wanted me to teach him. Thus, began a process of them coming up from North Carolina to New York for him to study voice, keyboard harmony, theory and composition. When I had first met him, he was already a home-schooled very well educated young soul, as well as a scholarship student for his drumming. He would then first take up the guitar and master it. While in my home, he'd be practicing for hours and hours on end, fall asleep on the day bed with the guitar in his hands, resting it across his body, then wake up thirty or so minutes later and resume playing. It was truly remarkable and humbling to watch and listen to his rapidly expanding learning curve.

This time, it was I who traveled down to North Carolina.
In two weeks, November 29th - December 12th, 2015, working a minimum of 15 hours a day, we accomplished two and one half months of work and yet, it felt as if it happened within a blink of an eye.