I’ve purposely tried to get out of my shell, musically, and collaborate with others this past year. And I figured I ought to tell you about it. Why waste the opportunity to get more listens on projects I spent so much time on, after all? Here are just some of the ones I can actually… Continue reading 2021 Was a Year of Collaborations
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No Escape from the 80s: The Only Water Flowing
My latest EP, The Only Water Flowing is a collection of vocal tracks, each one a full song with lyrics and melodies and harmonies. It’s 5 tracks in total, and is my last release for 2021. And it’s me trying to get past my fear of putting myself and my creative work “out there” for… Continue reading No Escape from the 80s: The Only Water Flowing
Album: Festina Lente (2021)
9 tracks of symphonic retrowave, straight-up 1980s-inspired synthwave, and world fusion downtempo, by Acid42.
Creating Art By Using a Prompt like Flowers
That basic drum part coupled with the Eleanor Rigby-like narrative of an estranged married couple struggling to connect after years of ignoring one another led to the song “Reason and Rhyme” and its opening image of a woman talking to her flowers for hours.
EP: Requiescat In Pace (2021)
Second release for 2021: synthwave and synthpop with an undercurrent of grief and desperation.
Album: Omnia in Omnibus (2021)
Omnia in Omnibus, a Latin phrase for “All in all,” is 6 tracks of synthpop, synthwave, and downtempo ethnotronica.
How Music Saved Me from the Behavioral Anhedonia of the 2020 Pandemic
By focusing on music I could take my attention away from the virus ravaging the land. And I could create something tangible and beautiful, and stop feeling sorry for myself and the world.
Is There Locrian Synthwave? Well, Now There Is.
Putting together a synthwave tune using Locrian is harder than it first seemed.
On New Tools, New Sounds, and Enough Synthwave Tunes to Release an Album
At the start of the year, I thought the Acid42 project was dead. Turns out all I needed was a new set of sonic tools.
Album: Renovatio (2020)
Consider this your quarantine soundtrack. It collects the last 3 years’ worth of ethnotronic worldbeat chillout tracks from my archives. Free download.