I’m releasing an album for April 28th, 2020 called Complicity. Given the times that we are currently in (now more evidently than before), I felt inclined to release this.
During this current era of 2020, I was kicked out of my parents house because I decided to go see my man one Saturday afternoon. This was on the first day of Spring. So effectively I was a form of spring cleaning for my father.
This left me in a state of anger and going down the whole of self loathing for a while and I’m still dealing with it. It was tough to even get the energy to complete my album because I’m also working from home and spending countless hours dealing with my own issues. That said, seeing the world change this way has been interesting and has made me more grateful for a number of people and things in my life.
Okay, sorry, I was a bit off topic there: this is supposed to be about the music.
So about the album: It’s funny though because most of the tracks were formed long before 2020 and long before things that weren’t normal have become the new accepted normal. One of my tracks was made in 2019 and it is ironically relatable to the stories that have been fed to us. There’s a lot of experimental stuff in this album. Some housey techno stuff, ambient (illbient?), footwork,hip hop. I did a bit of odd time signature work too. Most of the tracks are on the deeper and darker side musically.
My man helped me with the song titles.
I may get brave/courageous and actually do a YouTube video of myself playing my tracks with the SP 404 (it’s been a long time coming).
After this album, I’m not sure about what’s next for me… I have no keyboard, my laptop is a wreck (I broke my own laptop and it’s literally falling apart as I type this), I have no 88 key keyboard, no midi jacks, no audio interface like the studio one audio box.
I’ve been a wreck about keeping my job during this event so I don’t know what I could do about it all at the moment… I’ve considered learning how to sample better and release some sampled beats under a different name but it’s just an idea at the moment.
What that may require is for me to become an active listener of music again and take the back seat. It will help me with relearning chords on the guitar while I wait to get a keyboard.
Until then, when it comes to music at least, I will keep my options open and will hopefully release an EP in the next couple of months (by like June?). And hopefully we will see if I could get a keyboard, laptop, and a half decent audio interface to make music easier…
Note: I felt like this album was very important for me to release. It’s not about having everyone listen to it and get me on a map. At this point with all the crap going on right now with how things have changed, my reasons for releasing music have also changed a lot.
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