On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock. You might wonder if those divergent genres belong together, but the proof is in the listening.
For complicated reasons, I haven’t composed, produced, and released music since the late 1980s, back in the multi-track reel-to-reel and early MIDI days!
A few months back, a friend bought me Apple’s Digital Audio Workstation. I’m teaching myself this entirely new (to me) way of producing music by creating music—like I taught myself HTML and CSS by making websites.
It feels like there is no end to the music that has built up inside me over the past decades when I silenced this part of myself. I am thrilled to be creating and sharing music again.
I have no commercial expectations for these tracks; I just want people who might like my music to be able to give it a listen. If you object to Bandcamp, you can also listen on Sonica, although the mixes there are slightly different.
(I published to Sonica one track at a time; once I had sufficient material to sequence into a proper LP-style side, I remastered the tracks—in some cases also adding parts, and in other cases, taking them away. BTW, if you create music and are looking for a place to share with other creators, Sonica is a great place for it.)
Sonica is also where the curious can hear some of the music I created in my studio during the late 1980s, as well as some initial rough drafts of the newer music that has now found its way into Side One of Side One.
Side Two of Side One will be out as soon as I finish creating it. Meantime, grab a pair of headphones and enjoy Side One of Side One.