Sweet Blessing
Sweet Blessing is the opening track off the D’ville EP .Memories flicker between yearning, sorrow, and hope at the moment you realize your…
MUSINGS
expression pedal shootout: headrush vs. mission
As multi-effect modeling pedals become more realistic, the interfaces through which we control them become more important…
Farewell (for now) Brian Johnston {1969 – 2021}
“Human solidarity is to be achieved not by inquiry but by imagination, the imaginative ability to see strange people as fellow sufferers…” Farewell (for now) my dear friend.
Emilio GS: More + The Time We Were
More, is an alternative pop collaboration with talented composer and instrumentalist Emilio GS from Madrid, Spain
sun*load: Thin White Horses
At that moment, I glimpsed the distinct features of David Bowie’s face beneath the wide-brimmed fedora…
jh0st talks: Luscious-235: End.Game.
I finally sat down with Luscious-235 for a rare interview where they revealed 11 secret and urgent points. That the lost decade of…
n0va artwork
Just as music enters one’s psyche through unexpected associations, bossa nova was introduced to me through my old friend Jin…
Cock It (COtu × jh0st)
Cock It is a 70s infused souped-up anti-gun antidote aimed directly at Ted Nugent’s hypocrisy. On this 20th anniversary of the Columbine…
My Fallen Twin – sun*load
My Fallen Twin is a 90s darkwave influenced collab with sun*load: We have a vision of our ourselves, a kind of ideal light. Through mythology…
a mile high ride (with COtu) in the Ozone
Ozone (a collab with COtu) is a sunny, R&B infused, mile-high, pop song best consumed before the dark clouds roll in…
Gryflet: Mobocracy Mayhem
In late June 2016, we all woke up to the reality of the Brexit referendum. There was a blanketing, quiet awe of both disbelief and gnawing…
Gryflet’s Endless Tempest
Nuno Tavares, the mastermind behind Gryflet is not a man of many words… but his music and song titles say it all. They are narrative riffs…
Gryflet’s Left to the Unknown
We all have voices in our head. In the early 1930’s the Soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky defined the distinction between silent…
Gryflet’s #MeToo
The #MeToo movement has been short of revolutionary, even becoming Time Magazine’s ‘Person of the Year.’ Its ripple effect has…
Shared Hallucinations: Gryflet’s ‘Your Head on the Pillow’
Way before there was such a thing as ‘virtual reality,’ there was music… Its mythologies connected ordinary peoples with the extraordinary…
Gryflet and the Mile High Club
Many people have fantasies about getting it on in an airplane bathroom. I’m not sure why: they’re small, brightly lit, and sometimes…
A Genealogy of X performance – MMCA Seoul, Dec 3rd
Despite all the political protests in central Seoul, the show must go on! Excited to provide ambient saxophone backdrop to Choon…
X-ray of the Past and Future
In the wake of another recently broken bone (this time my foot!) I’ve been thinking again about pain and its role in our lives. It’s indeed an…
Black and White
“I’m done playing music to a bunch of white guys standing around in a room.” Being lily-white-male himself, this was quite a proclamation from…
B3ND3R: starting over again
I’ve gone on about being addicted to Reverb, my drug of choice. My previous recordings and collaborations were drenched with…