Hi all! Today I am sharing a single off of the album I've been working on since last year and talking about a recent change for me as an artist going forward.
When I first started this channel some may remember it was based on Hip-Hop made with an Elektron Octatrack. This was a great time to get back to music after a hiatus and learn more about electronic music and sampling. About a year later I got back into guitar and created a kind of a synthy post-punk character which felt accessible at the time. Then I wound up taking some jazz lessons and learning to play the fiddle giving us a long period of more folk oriented music.
The new record retains elements of all this but is moving back towards my roots alongside my work with PORTIA. Since the sound has deviated so much from the beginning of posting videos I'd like to mark this new period with a proper title.
All of my solo work will now be under the name "Rabidue," the name of the street I spent much of my childhood on in Michigan. I have many feelings and surrealistic dream like sequences in my memory of this place. It was where we moved to after my sister was born. It was where I learned to play guitar. A home for the new formed family. There is little significance to the world here other than the personal experiences of living in the mid western countryside in the 00's. A further description feels inappropriate. My youtube page will remain under my own name as I feel It is used for a kind of journal for the various music related arts I make.

Back to the track! I met a Marshall Hawkes around 2015 or 16 when I had recently moved to New Orleans. I was using a friends recording set up at that time and Marshall had come to work on a song......that we never finished.
I haven't had access to the files or the recording since then but I've always felt the chorus was an ear-worm.
Stumbling onto the chord progression, I started to work the song back out from what I could remember. I took the sonic landscape in a very different direction to reflect the haziness of this endeavor and wrote lyrics for a 2nd verse. In a way this is a cover reimagined.




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