From POS FB:
I've had problems finding my way back to the album. But now I'm at it and having fun!
There was a time when sharing my music with others meant the world to me. With age, and especially after the pandemic, I've grown frighteningly content with just sharing it with a few selected friends, or even just hearing it in my head without recording it.
Many of the key aspects of why I loved making albums have dissipated over the years. The process has become a lonely one, without hanging for hours on end in a rehearsing room, without spending weeks in a big studio. And with every album release, there is more back catalog for the fans and press to compare with and express dissatisfaction with. I didn't dive headlong into music as a kid to sit at a computer on my own week after week, or to get judged and rated by opinionated somebodies around the world. I love making music, singing and playing my heart out, having fun with other musicians, show and be shown the ropes on new techniques and creative ideas. I simply fell in love with music.
If these aspects fade too much out of view, I will respectfully back out. See, I have a responsibility to Music – to remain passionate. To invest my entire heart and soul into it. Every inch of the way.
These last years, I have grown extremely tired of opinions, posts, content, arguments, upset feelings and agitated world views. Why should I even consider bringing my thoughts and my music to that overly set table, creaking at the hinges from all the indigestible stuff that's already heaped upon it? Would I not be part of the problem? If I have a strong longing for the entire mankind to just shut the fuck up for a mere two seconds and take a deep breath, should I not be the first to do so?
Teaching music to kids have been an absolute joy these last two years. They make sense, and I learn a lot myself from teaching them. And we have fun, playing music together. A lot of the building blocks that I have come to miss from the album making processes.
So, I shut the fuck up a bit and took a deep breath or two. And now it's fun again. If 90% of this species are halfwits, then what the hell, I'll give my heart to the remaining 10% before they lose their mojo the way I did. Hang in there. The Deep End is coming to life again. 🤘♥️