Extra drowsy Formula

Within a few months, we had gone through maybe ten people in and out of the band, and it was down to me and daja, the singer. We changed the name to “drowsy” and quit looking for other people. I switched from drums to autoharp (being incapable of playing any “real” string instruments) and bought a drum machine.

We played a few shows like that — autoharp, drum machine, and vocals — and after a while I bought a keyboard and an old Roland sequencer. This allowed me to write keyboard parts and have them play automatically, with the sequencer telling both the drum machine and the keyboard what to do.

Eventually daja moved out of town and now I do this by myself. I haven’t played live in years and frankly the idea of playing a show solo, accompanied by pre-programmed backing tracks, strikes me as simultaneously terrifying and absurd.

Nevertheless, I’ve been writing songs and recording myself ever since. I have very little stuff that I feel is “finished” — one of the purposes of starting the site and this blog is to shame me into putting the finishing touches on some stuff and finally putting it out there into public.

Anyway, that’s the last ten years in a nutshell.

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