Suite Tea, the studio, and me.

Many moons have set and some sun's have risen since the last blog entry. My apologies. Difficult to stay on track, but I suppose that's what separates "made it" from "the self proclaimed best kept secret". I will try to be more diligent. Lately I've had the notions of coming back to the jack of all trades motif. For a while I slowed any sort of production by trying to focus on one aspect of creating music and I developed the self proclaimed best kept secret complex...that doesn't fly when all you want to do is play music for people and make a living off of that. Secrets aren't screamed. But now that my volume is up and I'm much less inhibited about my expression, I'm able to be more creative. I encourage all to do the same, regardless of what you do for a living or hobby. I've begun production on the next N()nes release entitled "Soft America". Another blog entry will explain the title. But for now, this editorial is all I have to offer.

The "Love and Hunger" EP

N()nes is a recording project I started around 2006. I was using cassette and a Tascam four track to record all the songs at the time. I would do a "soft mix" on the four track and then record that onto the computer or, more often, a mini disk player. The concept was easy, the execution was almost impossible for the most part. There were so many gaps in the quality of the production, and I had such little knowledge as to how to improve them. In December of 2007, I moved from Washington, D.C. to my hometown of New Bedford, MA. There I linked up with one of my oldest friends, Eric Marshall, and we started recording music under a moniker we created five or so years earlier. We recorded a few tracks together, hit and miss, then I moved out to Virginia to continue other artistic ventures with another dear friend, DJ Glisson. I continued to record with Eric, this time long distance. The result of those "sessions" was our first record entitled, "The Forever Guarantee EP". By the release of the EP, I had moved back to Washington D.C. In November of 2010, I moved back to MA, all the while recording what would become the "Love and Hunger" EP. This marked yet another turn of the corner for the N()nes project. It's all still a work in progress, but it sure beats recording on tape!