This song is about moving on, 
Left my job of 20 years.

Puppet on a string

He was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. At young age was already taking photos at concerts and by then was already playing the piano. Piano and all music in general, had always been a safe haven for him and boost his passion on making more calm compositions. He spent more time than ever alone with himself, obviously a very strange context for an artist who has poured his most personal feelings, experiences and realisations.

Hello, and welcome.
I’m singing and writing my way through grief — one song at a time.

I record everything myself in GarageBand: lead vocals, layered harmonies, acoustic rhythm guitar, V-Drums, and percussion, bringing in outside stems only when a song calls for extra texture. This is a true DIY process — heartfelt, handmade, and built on a shoestring — but one grounded in constant learning and growth. I’ve been deeply immersed in mixing and mastering so these songs can finally move beyond demo form and fully become what they’re meant to be.

My signature sound is acoustic-driven music anchored by a wide vocal range and rich three- and four-part harmonies. I move between genres depending on the emotional truth of each song, but I always stay honest. I’m a bit of a throwback — a rocker-hippie soul writing from the heart, unfiltered and real.

I spent years performing covers in Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area, drawing from rock, jazz, pop, funk, and beyond. After stepping away from music to focus on family, life eventually brought me to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. Surrounded by forest, ocean, and the distant silhouette of Vancouver Island, I found a quiet peace I hadn’t known before. I bought myself a Johnny Cash Martin guitar and began recording covers that helped me heal.

That process reopened a creative door I thought had closed. Poetry and lived experience turned into songs, and over the next year and a half I wrote more than 30 of them — stories shaped by loss, resilience, and the slow work of moving forward.

When I perform live, I work as a one-woman band using a Roland Cube EX amp, my Johnny Cash Martin guitar, a Shure mic with in-ears, and a MacBook Pro through a Scarlett Solo for backing tracks. Technology makes this journey possible, and I’m deeply grateful for it.

To Erika, Rachel, Brooklynn, Rylie, and Lukas — you are forever in my heart. This music is the legacy of love I carry forward for you. I used to sing silly songs whenever I could. Since losing you in 2019, writing and performing has been how I survive that loss, honor it, and keep love alive. I will never stop hoping to see you again.

Thank you for listening.
Peace. 🌿

I need to get famous!! Follow me here and everywhere else

Love being creative, to see something come together from a thought is mind blowing to me still. My inspiration musically comes from Tom Kiefer (Cinderella) Axl Rose, John Bon Jovi and Chad Kruger of Nickelback, one of my go to singers is Sammy Hagar . Van Halen years were amazing.
Rock is very cool.
Country is incredible, Alan Jackson is my hero, 
Wont fade away was written for him

I’m a luthier who found songwriting later in life. Though I build instruments, I’ve never claimed to be the best musician — but I do have a voice that crosses genres and carries the stories I want to tell. My songs are rooted in personal experiences, reflections, and the stories life leaves behind.

I began using AI as a springboard to bring my ideas to life, but my ultimate goal is to record and release music in my own voice. Every track is part of a journey — from craft to song, from tools to tales.

Songwriter, composer and singer.
Do not forget to follow me until all new arrives.
Tel: 00201270082193

There was a time when boldness was the main characteristic of youth. Young people wanted to be different, and one of the most prominent ways to be different in my day was to listen to different styles of music. It was very striking among Generation Xers, even those who belonged to more radical urban tribes. I remember well, for example, the late Jeff Hanneman, the brilliant guitarist from Slayer, saying in an interview that he loved classical music. This kind of boldness is deeply rooted in most of the guys who lived through that era. And it's a very noticeable characteristic in most artists who came from those years. The late David Bowie, for instance, embraced electronic rhythms like jungle and drum ‘n’ bass on his incredible album Earthling. Iggy Pop said in a video that he loved the then-new branch of electronic music, a genre called industrial. And the world-famous cellist Yo-Yo Ma played a version of Metallica's “Nothing Else Matters”. The examples are numerous.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed the death of this kind of boldness in the younger generations. Young people enslave themselves to a few musical styles and refuse to listen to the universe of music that exists out there.

Overdrive is a musical project that seeks to explore different musical genres — rap, classical music, techno, punk, death metal, rock ‘n’ roll, new wave, new age, a cappella, you name it. The idea is to introduce listeners to the concepts of musical freedom, musical anarchy, musical curiosity, and bold listening (to new and old styles).

It's a one-man project with the help of countless talented collaborators. So don't be surprised to see tracks of completely different styles with equally diverse collaborators — people like a brilliant English glam singer in shiny pants singing about punks on a post-punk song; or a skilled German guitarist who plays rock riffs on a drum'n bass background; a Russian female singer with an incredibly powerful voice singing a 70s rock song; a young British rapper genius who loves electro; a Danish female singer and harpist who enjoys singing pop music on a Bach background; a French reggae singer who sings disco brilliantly; and many others.

Musical eclecticism is an expression of freedom. I love Sepultura and I love Frank Sinatra. And there isn't a single day that goes by when I don't listen to music by J. S. Bach and the German thrash metal band Destruction. I truly believe that different styles talk to each other when I make music and would love to pass on some of that thinking to my fellow young musicians.

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CONTACT
e-mail: muzik.overdrive[at]gmail[dot]com 
Or DM in Soundcloud/Instagram

I'm a songwriter and performer from Portland Oregon. My music has been sampled by DJ Shadow on his 2003 release Diminishing Returns and covered by: Pink Flames (The Vinyl Factory 2016), Electric Child House (2017) and Astronauts etc (Backatcha Records 2019). Backatcha Records also re-released the early seventies psych-rock grail, Just A Star that I co-wrote with Larry Smith for UK Record Store Day 2019.

Puppet on a string

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