So I recently set up an account on Distrokid, which means that I can do unlimited releases onto platforms such as Spotify for the low-low price of around $3 per month.

My plan at the moment is to release all the tracks I’ve got as singles–mostly because my friend Charity Ridpath was willing to let me use some really, really amazing drawings she’d made as cover art. So I’m really excited both about the music and the art.

So far, I’ve released an album of ambient music that I mostly just use for working purposes, as well as three singles:

1. It’s Always What it Always Was – A song that I wrote sort of about being married, I think. It aims to capture the simultaneous energy and warm-fuzziness of being partnered with someone in a long term sort of way. This was my first real effort in this project, resulting from bringing home a Korg Minilogue and trying to see what it could do. This, it turns out, was something that it could do. 
2. Your Beating Heart – This one was about seeing your unborn child on a baby monitor for the first time. I was trying to capture that overwhelming feeling, both in its quiet intimacy and utter hugeness. You know that your life will never be the same after your baby is born, and you feel totally connected to this more-or-less eternal stream of life, while at the same time you’re alone in a room with two other people and a whirring machine. It’s kind of amazing.
3. A Thought Too Terrible to Mention – This song began when I tried to figure out a way to make a drum groove in 5 that didn’t work the same way all 5/4 grooves work. Like, trying to get away from “Living in the Past” and “Take 5” and that same groove that I’ve used a thousand times, whenever I want to write a song in 5. The song ended up being something I meant to sing to my wife, when she was feeling anxious about our future. So there it is.

I’m still totally in love with the artwork Charity did for me on these. It’s really something.