Hello From Quarantine

A new four-song EP, “Hello From Quarantine” will be released on all digital platforms on June 19, 2020.

This EP was recorded in my living room between the end of March and through May of 2020, and is just a way to say “Hello” to those who notice during a really difficult time.

I had been working on a bigger project and was preparing to go into the studio to record in February of this year. I had spent most of 2019 working on this project, but when things went south, I shelved this project. See, I enjoy going into the recording studio and tracking real drums, guitars and basses, but with the lockdown coming, I just couldn’t go through with it.

I really like the songs I wrote for this other project, but to do it right is to record it for real, and I just don’t know when that will be possible.

I didn’t want to have a whole other year pass without putting something out, so I came up with this. These last few months haven’t been easy on anyone and the best way I know to deal with anxiety is to sit behind the keyboard and fiddle with music. Before I knew I had a couple of fully developed songs and by mid April I had what I thought was an actual EP release.

I spent my vast amount of free time mixing in the evenings and completed it at the end of May. I asked the very talented mastering engineer, Taylor Deupree, to master it and well here we are.

I’m not promising this record is anything earth-shatteringly new (in fact, one song is a re-imagined older song that was released on “Miscellany”) or terribly brave for that matter. No, this record is really just a way to say “hello” to anyone who finds it.