Dennis Lichtman - Secret Workshop (2023)

My late father was a highly eccentric and private inventor/engineer/machinist/entrepreneur whose genius in many fields was evident to everyone who knew him, and whose creations were impeccably engineered yet far too niche to be highly marketable. He left behind a mountain of inventions, machines, gadgets, and 80 years’ worth of souvenirs in his mad-scientist’s-lair of a workshop, directly below my childhood bedroom and always off-limits. Every song on the album is inspired by a strange, surprising, or revealing object I discovered while dismantling the workshop.