Category: music
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Swimming (in my mind)
How to navigate the complex relationships between personal history and narratives, memory, and now? “Swimming,” is a mindful acknowledgement of this conundrum.
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Accidental Vampire
One night in early July, after banging my head against a different song project for a couple of hours without any success, i started flipping through my journal and found the opening line to this tune. A few hours later after a bit of guitar noodling and some inspired moments on a long walk, Accidental…
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The Roller Coaster
The Roller Coaster is the first song I’ve written in many years, and it’s become one of my favorites to play and sing.
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15 from 2019
I’ve put together another installment of my year-end favorite song mixes – this time it’s “15 songs from 2019.” There are a lot of really special songs that didn’t make the mix this year. I listened far and wide in 2019, but ultimately spent most of my time with several AMAZING records that came out…
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Rethinking creative process
I’ve learned a lot about making things and harnessing my creativity in the last twenty years, and I’m excited to apply what i’ve learned to music writing for the first time.
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20 from 2018
I’ve put together a mix of the twenty best songs I heard first in 2018. From hip hop to indie rock, folk, instrumental, and R&B—it’s a diverse mix of tunes that resonated with me.
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Fixing up the old Fernandes
I picked up this guitar off craigslist some time ago, and then it sat in storage for awhile. As I am getting back into a regular practice, i thought it would be a good idea to re-string, fix, and polish up the axe. Got it hanging up in my room now and it looks pretty!