Words And Music

Half-Way In Love

Indio guerreiro (huni kuin prayer)

Dark in the Hollow

When I was going through old tapes in my parents’ basement to put together a collection of my dad’s music for him for Christmas, I also found some old tapes of mine from when I was a teenager. This song is from one of those tapes. The sound quality isn’t great, especially in one spot in the bridge. I’m sure it didn’t start out sounding as good as I thought it did back then, and nearly 30 years in a box in a humid basement didn’t help any. 

I wrote this song when I was in high school, and was dating a girl whose dad was a drummer who left her and her mom to go off to California to play in a band. My favorite songwriters were all storytellers, and I didn’t really have any stories of my own to tell, so I tried to tell hers.

This recording is from the summer after I graduated from high school in 1997. I recorded it on a Yamaha 4 track that a friend of mine gave me. I played guitar and sang both parts. My little brother, who would have been 15 at the time, played the harmonica part. He was, and is, an incredible musician who can play most anything, but back then his main instrument was harmonica. He played that thing all day every day, and you can really hear the John Popper influence here. 

He and I went on a couple of years later to play in a band together that still is, to this day, probably the best band I’ve ever been in. I found some stuff from that band in the basement as well, and will post some of it sometime soon.

Mend

Alles wieder offen

Weil weil weil

So Bad 2, Care

Carousel

Sparkle

Some Song (Live at Umbra Penumbra - September 17th, 1994)

Mazunte 2016

Ponte Punk

Éramos para Siempre

Songs From Down The Hall

Lover Now Alone

What happens when you teach a kid Suzuki violin, have him grow up in the home of a rock band, and then give him a guitar and get out of his way?

Throw in a love for Dave Brubeck and odd time signatures, some Phil Keaggy and open guitar tunings, a little Klayton and Trent Reznor, a touch of Adrian Belew, a dash of Danny Elfman and Alan Silvestri, and then stir in a heaping helping of big dumb guitar rock, and you’ve got a mishmash of influences that make up my sound. 

I like to make interesting music, and I get bored easily. I am equal parts composer and performer. I sing a little. I play a lot. And I really dig making absurd beats in weird time signatures that don’t make any sense until they do.

Mend

Friar Didymus

Recent comments

Michele Ansani

Related tracks