Shouting Into the Void (And Hearing a Response)

There has been something deeply fun about putting my own music out into the world of recent. You build these tracks and discover songs from others in isolation, then somehow they magnetize to each other and start to bend into some of my own broken logic. After complying you then you push them off the ledge.

An Open Threshold - Jansky Noise and Friends

So after a recent release of the above album An Open Threshold I was delighted to get instant feedback from Andy Ortmann and The Eternal Now (WFMU) for spinning not one, but two tracks from my upcoming album. Hearing Habanera.EXE cut through the airwaves alongside the rest of that brilliant artists, sprawling June 4th broadcast was a pleasure indeed.

When you're operating on the fringes—stretching old operatic ghosts into weird, shapes and trying to capture the quiet terror of empty rooms—finding a broadcaster DJ and radio station that actually gets it feels like finding water in a desert. 

It’s a reminder of why independent radio remains the absolute lifeblood of everything weird and beautiful in music. No algorithms, no focus groups, just pure curation with dirt under its fingernails.

One song that already seem to be popular from the album is this track title - Here for you. This is actually an edited version and not the full version but for the time being it is here, and the sentiment is the same. The song is absolutely about being by right by the side, being there present for someone who you love. It seems to be striking a chord, although this has not been played on WFMU or anywhere else at least not yet to my knowledge.  

I’ll be writing a much more expanded piece on Andy’s incredible show and the rest of that heavy playlist very soon (honestly, still processing the sheer brilliant madness of discovering The Frogs on that same broadcast). But for tonight, I'm just sitting here feeling incredibly grateful.

The threshold is open, the signal is live, and some receivers like ou are tuning in. The full album will only ever be available on Bandcamp. Some of the other songs will appear on streaming platforms over time.