This album is the sound of process.

After a creatively productive, yet entirely tumultuous 2020, I found the early months of 2021 to be a bit difficult. Difficult in many ways; a second pandemic lockdown was forcing me to live and work at home 24/7, I was doing my best at coming to terms with the fact that I was about to turn 40 thus reaching (hopefully) the midpoint of my life on this planet, and ultimatly I felt creatively drained both from a visual and musical standpoint. I wouldn’t call it a a full-on depression, but there were a lot of mental or emotional barriers to bust through.

Early on I the process I tried recording a handful of upbeat tracks that were focused around more complex drum programming than maybe I had attempted before. Ultimately, these songs never came together quite right and I felt they were going nowhere. Additionally, they didn’t seem fit the headspace I was in and felt too forced or too out of step with me and where I was at that moment. It could also be that they weren’t very good and I knew it. Perhaps they will see the light of day at some point, but I doubt it. They will probably remain in a distant corner of a forgotten folder on an external hard drive.

Out of frustration, I had begun to resign myself to the idea of taking a break and stepping away from my equipment for an extended periord.

As fate would have it, after a particularly long day at home (which I believe was during one of our bigger winter storms here in the Upper Peninsula this year), I randomly decided to program some rather glacial sequences into one of my software synths and then run it through my pedal board and through other hardware and software processors to see what kind of noise I could make. Within 10 minutes I had fully completed “Fuzzy Perspectives on the Post Future” and “Pendulum Always”, the opening and closing tracks of this album. These two “songs” set the course for the other seven that would follow.

After that initial burst, I realized I wanted to make an album that was both minimal and maximal. An ambient record that took a kitchen sink approach to how the sounds and tones were processed. An album where I utilized both analog and digital instruments, recording media, and approaches and then filtered it all to a point where you can no longer recognize whether something was recorded to tape or laptop, with piano or synth; whether something was sequenced, looped, played organically, or generated by chance procedures. I also wanted to find a certain serenity and joy through the power of digital degradation. Not necessarily new ideas or concepts, but ones I wanted to explore perhaps further than I had before. From there, the recording of rest of the album began to flow almost effortlessly.

Thanks for listening. I hope you truly enjoy it in some fashion!

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Big thanks to my wife Tara for supporting me and listening to me ramble-on all-day, everyday about stupid shit and loving me regardless. A huge thanks must also go to my pals Tony Dutcher & Sean Patrick for polishing up my mixes and making the album better for human consumption.

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There will be physical copies of this album available on Compact Disc. Hopefully those will be showing up in the coming weeks. As soon as they arrive they will appear here for sale. I am also currently working on reissuing my back catalog as well and those will also appear here when they arrive.

I’d love to see this album on vinyl one day so if there is any label out there that is keen to help with that, call me…