You may already be familiar with the Higher Than Pope blog at http://www.soundclick.com/members/default.cfm?member=Higher+Than+Pope (look at the member profile, not the artist page) and are aware that we presume to write poetry.  We have sent the poems off to a trusted editorial board, letting them select what shall be included.  We will in the very near future also send a manuscript of lyrics for review and possible inclusion (their idea). Preparation will no doubt take awhile (judging by the time it took for my last book).

Our thinking right now is to make only a paperback available and keep the cost down. If you are interested in a hard cover, let us know. We'll see if it becomes practical. 

If you want to hear about the book's availability, sign up on the Higher Than Pope mailing list (see below). Our intent is to allow folk to order copies direct from us if they would like us to write a note and sign their copies. Those copies will be available prior to public sale. Don't worry about lots of emails on the mailing list...we seldom use it (once or twice during the last year?)  Anyone is welcome to send us an email for any type of inquiry. pope at semanticrecords dot com or here through RVN.

Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a heart beat by the weight of a Higher Than Pope composition. One second you are late 60's retro and then next avant-garde progressive rock. There appears to be a genre warp as the HTP black hole collapses genre after genre, with none appear to escape unscathed.

Fans say:

"wow you are really interesting and original sounding. I am listening. you are whacked in a good way....I am listening."

"I think your song "new beast" is some kind of masterpiece. I like the raw attitude in your sound."

"I think you have the leading edge in music..very captivating...even more awesome through the phones took me to a higher plane!"

"'Wow!' I just had my ears assaulted and my mind fried simply by listening to a few tracks of this aural crack. Thank god a soft guitar jumped from the speakers just in time to let me sop up the blood dripping from my brain - very Hitchcockian! Then back into the hunt! Good to find a soul behind the sonic mayhem! And a lovely one at that."

Although primarily a guitar band, HTP have no qualms about snipping bits from multiple genres and splicing the results together.  HTP are not big on songs that evolve so slowly you fall asleep between intro and verse.  Instead they practice revolution and from one moment to the next you have no idea what may transpire next as you are catapulted from one sonic event to another.