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Artist
Matt DellaFera
5+ albums
jimi hendrixrockambientguitarimprov
about
I recorded and edited this album by myself in a basement. I was determined to do the whole thing alone; I’m not sure what I was trying to do by doing that, but that was the idea, and I was pretty much hell-bent on it. I recorded some of the tracks on an old tape deck that my dad had. I recorded the others through a USB interface that my friend’s dad gave me a couple years ago. I recorded some of the tracks with my dad’s old Washburn acoustic, and the other tracks with guitars that my friend had done a lot of work on, or that I worked on after he showed me how to work on them. Other friends gave me feedback on a lot of the tracks, and that really encouraged me to keep playing and recording; and lots of times, just having someone to talk to was enough to give me the energy needed to get that creative spark going and kindle the flame afterward. I also was going to scrap this entire idea and forget about making an album the same day I got an e-mail from a very good friend of mine — he’d re-organized the track order and encouraged me to finish it, and so I picked it up again. That was less than a day ago. My whole life, people’ve been telling me “you have to help yourself.” I never felt right when I heard that, and I always felt that something inside me really disagreed with that. Now I know what it was: I was so blinded by my obsession with doing everything alone I didn’t even notice that doing anything alone’s impossible. A sperm cell and an egg cell form a zygote — and that
