Hello listener-readers. Today I come to you with brief but exciting news.

I have a new EP out today called In The Dark

The three singles you’ve heard so far, and now one 8-minute double-song you haven’t. “Wilderin / In The Depths” that bridges the dark beginning tracks with the lighter ending. I encourage you to revisit all 4 tracks in their intended context.

1. Terminus

2. In The Dark

3. Wilderin / In The Depths

4. In The Mist (feat. Sarah Lashinsky)

You can hear it wherever you get music. A few links for your convenience:

Bandcamp | Spotify | Apple Music | YouTube

Thanks for listening

If you listen, I’d love to know what you think. Feel free to reply to this email or contact me which/however way. I hope to start playing these songs around town in the coming months. This newsletter will be a decent place to be aware of when that’ll be.

What’s next?

I’ve been thinking of using this newsletter as a place to document musical output, but not just with final songs.

Something that’s been on my mind is the fact that these songs undergo so many iterations from scraps of voice memos, different arrangement ideas, acoustic versions, smashing different song ideas together. Often lots of non-music inspiration too. Eventually you get a published song, but there’s so much to talk about along the way before arriving at a published audio file. The time that it takes is admittedly sort of forced by my lifestyle. I have a day-job and am a parent. Often an idea happens and gets captured then gets jarred and placed in the cellar to age. I go off and tend to other things for a while. After some time, I come back down to examine what I left. Sometimes the ideas sound different than when I left them.

Anyways, I’d like to write more about this process of song-making as a non-full-time-musician. Still figuring out what that might look like.

Next time expect some more reflecting on ‘In The Dark’ as an EP. As well as looking ahead: talking through the current season of generative song-making I’m in right now. And balancing it with everything else.

🌀
John