Updating my acoustic portfolio

Acoustic releases always offer a sense of intimacy that studio releases don't. It's as if you're there, in the room, with the artist; hearing the breathing noises, mistakes, the screeching of acoustic guitar strings as the fingers attempt to make the sounds needed to get the song across. It's a little more real, more honest than the typical studio mega-production of music, glossing over every minor flaw in the soundstage. Personally I think every song should have its own acoustic version, so that's why I've started working on my own acoustic album. Some of its songs are already out on my website. It's a work in progress, so it might not be that the recordings on the end product will be the same as they are now.

Gotta gloss over some of those mistakes, you know...

Link to my acoustic songs

Photo: Stan Serdjukov


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