Photo by Troy Dickerson
Hello! Welcome to my website, designed by my wonderful friend Erin White of Elevation Lab.
Some exciting things are coming together, and I can’t wait to share everything I’ve been working on with you.
The recording process of Spirit House is off to a strong start. Ethan’s friend Michael Okusami is engineering the album in his awesome home studio. He’s involved in many projects, and I’ve taken a liking to this song and video from one of his groups called Nighttime Adventure Society.
We’re almost done laying down my guitar and vocal parts. This time in the studio, I realized how challenging it is to record a nylon-stringed guitar. I play so quietly, so all sorts of shifting movem
ent from my fret board gets picked up if I’m not careful enough. It feels like I’m under a microscope instead of a microphone!
Alan came in for a few sessions and laid down drum parts for five songs. I had a blast in the studio watching him blast away on the kit. While working on these parts, I got to learn more about the anatomy of a drum set and observed all the different ways Alan approached playing. He’d provide a number of options for setting the mood for a song, and he did a great job in reminding me to be assertive with how I wanted things to take shape. Sometimes I feel like I lack the proper technical musical vocabulary to convey my thoughts, but while workin
g closely with Alan, I felt like I might of developed a better sense of that.
We brought invoke into the studio recently and we’ve been doubling the string parts in some songs in order to create an orchestral effect. I can’t get over how fortunate I am to be able to work with such a talented cast of musicians through this project. 
Now we need to record the horns and woodwinds, and then we’ll begin mixing the album in April.
I’m preparing for my Artist in Residence month at Strathmore, which is coming up shortly! Here’s a link where you can find more information about my shows as well as the program. I hope you can make it out to some of my events!