This record came out on March 12, 2021, which marks an entire year since the last time i was able to go to a public live music event. I saw Telefon Tel Aviv at Valley Bar. Rumblings of a pandemic were in the background, and beyond enjoying the artist, I felt that I “had” to go to the show because I was starting to hear that attendance was down and artists needed support. I left halfway through his set because I was overcome by the claustrophobia of the basement venue coupled with a completely irrational fear that everyone in the club was going to get me sick. The next day I cancelled my birthday, and a couple days later the world ground to a halt.

All those words come with the caveat that a lot of people have had it significantly worse over the course of the past year, but like a therapist would say, “why can’t bhttp://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/oth things be bad?”

This album was produced mostly in single takes and edited down into smaller scenes. Forcing http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/myself to improvise & try and trust my own musical intuition has been a tool to battle self doubt that has been implanted in my skull for most of my life. A lot of reading andhttp://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/ introspection and thinking about what makes music - getting into modular synthesizers and the world of monome stuff opened my ears to a lot more than I was listening for on that front. Perfect http://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/takes exist because they have the confidence to be perfhttp://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/ect.

I’ve been lucky enough to be able to focus on this shttp://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/tuff as a way to bury my head in the sand during our collective Worst Year.

thanks: karin, norman, benj, jeff, sam, sean, ben, owen, preston, gurch, lines community, zohttp://www.quoteunquoterecords.com/loft, wifi, that one video of dakim on boiler room, and the real star of the show: isolation.

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