OK, so this is my
first entry concerning the creation of the follow up to 2003’s solo album, “Boy.
Man. Robot.”, which was actually recorded during and within the months that
followed the September 11th debacle of 2001. At that time, I was
recently married to my former wife and living in a tiny New Jersey apartment, working
in the merchandise department for film maker, Kevin Smith, and just became a
recent member of the Miles Hunt Club, the break-away project for the leader of
the seminal U.K. band, the Wonder Stuff. After simultaneously enjoying and
enduring a tumultuous decade of touring and performing under various
incarnations, returning to school to pursue degrees in neuroscience and P.A.
studies, and recording a plethora of ambient and experimental electronic albums
under the moniker, Bedtime for Robots, I found myself more than a decade older
& arguably, wiser. I pretty much all but abandoned the idea of songwriting
in the traditional sense of the word after 2006, in lieu of academics and
electronic music exploration.
Fast forward to
January of 2014: I am now a father to an amazing 4 year old girl, the one
beautiful result of my now-defunct marriage, and I am also a step-dad to a wonderful
6-year old girl. I live in Tampa, Florida with my life partner in crime and
continue to create ambient madness with my Bedtime for Robots project while
subsisting on a fledgling career as a P.A. Recently I decided to resurrect my
focus on songwriting, or should I say songwriting unexpectedly decided to
resurrect my interest and inspiration in said direction. I swore off all
structured, guitar and lyric oriented music years ago, which only amplifies the
old adage; life is what happens to you when you’re making other plans, often
attributed to John Lennon.
“Into the Hollow”
started as an afterthought in 2009, while I attempted to organize my “24-Hour
Psychosis” project, which was far too overwhelming to release in its entirety, into
several more palatable chunks. This resulted in several cohesive and satisfying
Bedtime for Robots albums and a full length curiosity I called “Into the
Hollow,” which was much more a singer/songwriter album than an
experimental/ambient/electronic collection. However, it never quite fit into
its own niche, although it had the making of something very special. I secretly
released “Into the Hollow” in its original form on LastFM and soon after began
to dismantle it, incorporating the tracks “A Field of Fireflies” and “La
Foresta Scura” into the 2103 Bedtime for Robots guitar-driven collection, “El
Diablo Guitarra.”
“El Diablo
Guitarra,” a departure from the way Bedtime for Robots albums were created
throughout the years, incorporated more structured musical pieces, albeit
without lyrics. I recorded the collection using the iPhone and iPad, along with
several guitar amp and recording apps. I knew I was onto something special with
“El Diablo” and soon after began picking up the guitar more often than not,
re-igniting my passion for guitar-driven music, which ultimately nudged me back
into the arena of songwriting. During early January of 2014, I discovered my
2-year old abandoned Blackberry and luckily I still had its charger. After
kicking the outdated little fucker back into life, I discovered a wealth of
guitar riffs and melodies that I had screwed around with during 2012, when I
had a brief period of inspiration which coincided with a break from academic
studies. I then spent a few “lost weekends” during January, 2014 rediscovering
some of my most exciting blueprints for possible songs in years. Thus, “Into
the Hollow” was reborn. More to come…
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