I loaded up some of the solo stuff I was working on when I initially joined Neil and Jeremy some time back. This is really just a mix of various electronic pieces that I was working on after my last band, Stars Burn Out, broke apart.
It seems that each time that I leave a band, I still feel a need to write some kind of music and it’s often easiest working with computers in those situations. They’re a great way of putting together polyphonic material even if you’re not in a position where you can play all of the instruments.
The real limitation with writing music strictly on computers is the lack of feedback from other musicians. You really get to miss bouncing ideas off of other people. After writing a good bit of this material, I started to get tired of my own ideas.
So it was great when I first joined Neil and Jeremy that I got to use some of this material in a live situation. I’d basically play my laptop as an instrument alongside what Neil and Jeremy were playing.
It was pretty limited as a live instrument, however, so I’ve since dropped using it on a regular basis. It also gets a bit tedious writing on a laptop and requires a lot of time, which I don’t have much of these days.
By the way, I don’t really have real cover art for this stuff yet. I’ll probably draw something up on Monday.
Hope everyone enjoys it.
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