Soul and Sadness

Soul and Sadness is a musical project that goes back basically to when i started playing music. since the beginning my goal was always to write music and to find my own sound. more specifically though, the roots of this project are in my early days of playing in punk bands. it was during this time that i started to see the potential for a departure into an acoustic style of music that kept influences from the punk music i was playing. i started looking for artist that were playing music of this style and i couldn't find anything. then Dashboard Confessional released their first EP and i felt like i had finally found what i was looking for. so Dashboard became a great influence for me but i still had to find my own style, my own sound. then came the influence from the experimental folk guitarists that i have been listening to for years like Don Ross, Preston Reed Andy McKee and Erik Mongrain. it was the combination of these two elements that led to the sound i have today. i spent the last few years working on my guitar playing, living through good and bad times and trying to write material. i feel like it has now reached a point where i am ready to do something with it. hope some of you will let me know what you think. i like to see how my music is being received now that i have moved it out of the living room.