Welp, my musical hiatus didn’t last very long, a few weeks maybe, but in that time I reflected on where I was going, where I’d been and what I hoped to achieve. As I’ve talked about elsewhere I had been steadily releasing the ambient longforms for years, bi-weekly and rarely missing a beat. It’s been a great time. I’ve heard from so many cool people and made so many new friends and I have to say a lot of credit needs to go to Bandcamp for creating an excellent and well thought out platform for independent artists.

Being an indepdent artist, these days, means you have to have a lot of irons in the fire, from social media posts to tracking streaming royalties/trends, licensing, playing gigs, practicing for gigs, booking gigs, promoting gigs and then somewhere in between you have to be creating some work that you like and hopefully others like, as well, at least enough to keep being interested in your work. Look, I’m not complaining, I feel pretty lucky to have this opportunity and to also have seemingly boundless creative inspiration and curiosity. I’d say, these days, you need to have boundless creativity and inspiration just to make a go of it. Without that, you better you have a good team supporting you and I’m not sure how you even get that team to begin with  if you never had those initial energies to get things off the ground – Getting things off the ground, getting that momentum, that’s the hardest thing to do – Starting, just starting…

Beyond my ambient guitar work, I have a lot of things going that I’ll likely give updates on; a lot of things that don’t necessarily fit in my creative oeuvre, but nevertheless, I’m starting to put a greater focus on, particulary acoustic music and my body of singer/songwriter work. I hope you’ll come with me on that journey and hear the sounds in that work that have fed my ambient music for 25 years now… Yep, that’s right this is my 25th anniversary of my first ambient recording, For Running Time… Long out of print, a freshmen effort in every way, but I started and with a quarter-century down, I’ve got nothing but open road, to explore, ahead of me.