Our band is like a family really-we take care of each other. It never made sense to me that a band needed to be named after one person in it, even if you write the music or lyrics yourself, you are still standing there with 4-5 other people on stage, it remains a group effort to both create and deliver the songs in our band. Making time to allow our songs to be born has been important for us-the right state of mind and openness is key. When things are aligning right for us and we are listening to each other well, miracles can happen but we have to be paying attention and we have to take the time for it. In our group each person plays a crucial role in our composition, we arrive at a song by spontaneously joining all of the elements together, when it does show up we hope the recorder is on and then we can take some time to listen to it after we lay it down and make sense of it. We often liken our process to a group fishing trip, but we all have to throw the lines in the water before we can catch any fish, standing on the shore talking about it won’t bring any supper home.
-T. Byron K.
4/30/2020
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