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A Ditty a Day
Before music-making entered my life, my first love was drawing, and it's something I want to practice and play with again. I've been inspired by visual artists who create and share a simple drawing or comic each day. So I thought I'd give it a shot. Then I thought, why can't I do something like that with music too? So I present to you A Ditty a Day. (Tierra Whack's Whack World is a great frame of reference for how simple and short songs can be.) I don't know how long I'll keep this up, nor do I expect to always be able to write and record something each day, but I want to make it easy to make and share music and art.
Newest songs will always be up at the top.
A couple Christmases ago, I was watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with friends, and one of them pointed out, "That's such a sweet sentiment," regarding the ending lyric: "Silver and gold / mean so much more when I see / silver and gold decorations / on every Christmas tree." I thought to myself, "Hey, a Christmas song that can speak to
A couple Christmases ago, I was watching Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with friends, and one of them pointed out, "That's such a sweet sentiment," regarding the ending lyric: "Silver and gold / mean so much more when I see / silver and gold decorations / on every Christmas tree." I thought to myself, "Hey, a Christmas song that can speak to income inequality? Sign me up." I hope it can offer some solidarity and beauty to you too, if you're feeling the weight of economic pressures.
The single artwork is a collage of images sourced from the public domain. Some of the images include pages from literature on the Rocky Mountain gold mine area, a scientific illustration of a Christmas rose (so named from legend that it sprouted from the tears of a poor girl who had nothing to offer the Christ child), and photos of holiday shoppers and wish lists.
Albums
The final installment of DLD2020. What began as a biweekly demo series on Patreon has evolved into a three-volume EP-set. This project is an exercise in anti-perfectionism, following after self-recording heroes such as Richard Swift and Sufjan Stevens. Each song is one take, recorded on one mic and mixed and mastered in my home studio.
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What began as a biweekly demo series on Patreon has evolved into a three-volume EP-set and an ongoing yearly project. This project is an exercise in anti-perfectionism, following after self-recording heroes such as Richard Swift and Sufjan Stevens. Each song from the set is one-take, recorded on one-mic and mixed and mastered in my home studio.
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The second installment! What began as a biweekly demo series on Patreon has evolved into a three-volume EP-set. This project is an exercise in anti-perfectionism, following after self-recording heroes such as Richard Swift and Sufjan Stevens. Each song from the set is one-take, recorded on one-mic and mixed and mastered in my home studio.
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Singles
This is the third single in The Old Soul and the Holy Fool,” a song cycle about relationships and self-realization. I’m gradually releasing these songs as singles, documenting my becoming as I record them individually over a period of time.
“Seeking a Friend in LA” was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend who said, “We’re all just
“Seeking a Friend in LA” was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend who said, “We’re all just
This is the third single in The Old Soul and the Holy Fool,” a song cycle about relationships and self-realization. I’m gradually releasing these songs as singles, documenting my becoming as I record them individually over a period of time.
“Seeking a Friend in LA” was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend who said, “We’re all just looking for a friend in LA, man.” That, and I really wanted to write a song that made a lyric out of the internet slang, “living their best life.” It was written during the same period as “Tell Me What For,” a period wherein I was wondering why there aren’t more platonic love songs out there.
“Seeking a Friend in LA” was inspired by a conversation I had with a friend who said, “We’re all just looking for a friend in LA, man.” That, and I really wanted to write a song that made a lyric out of the internet slang, “living their best life.” It was written during the same period as “Tell Me What For,” a period wherein I was wondering why there aren’t more platonic love songs out there.
This is the first single in my new project “The Old Soul and the Holy Fool,” a song cycle about relationships and self-realization. As a depiction of the slow process of self-realization, I’m gradually releasing these songs as singles, documenting my becoming as I record them individually over a period of time.
The process of writing, recording,
The process of writing, recording,
This is the first single in my new project “The Old Soul and the Holy Fool,” a song cycle about relationships and self-realization. As a depiction of the slow process of self-realization, I’m gradually releasing these songs as singles, documenting my becoming as I record them individually over a period of time.
The process of writing, recording, and mixing “Everybody is a Fool” has been at times a labor of love and at other times a fool’s errand. The song itself is at least three years old, has been revised countless times, and wasn’t shown to the public until years after its inception, due to self-consciousness. I recorded three different takes over the course of a few weeks, and during the recording process, re-wrote the lyrics and the guitar part. Then I spent over a month tinkering with the mix, hit a wall, hired another engineer to do a mix, and then eventually decided I would use my own mix after all.
Along the way of making this, I have truly learned some new things about myself. And by serendipity or providence, it turns out that’s kind of what this song was always about.
“The more you learn, the less you know,
and I’ve sure got a ways to go.”
The process of writing, recording, and mixing “Everybody is a Fool” has been at times a labor of love and at other times a fool’s errand. The song itself is at least three years old, has been revised countless times, and wasn’t shown to the public until years after its inception, due to self-consciousness. I recorded three different takes over the course of a few weeks, and during the recording process, re-wrote the lyrics and the guitar part. Then I spent over a month tinkering with the mix, hit a wall, hired another engineer to do a mix, and then eventually decided I would use my own mix after all.
Along the way of making this, I have truly learned some new things about myself. And by serendipity or providence, it turns out that’s kind of what this song was always about.
“The more you learn, the less you know,
and I’ve sure got a ways to go.”