About Me
I was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1975 and grew up near Columbus, Indiana. Long before I understood that I possessed fairly reasonable vocal pipes, I found the piano and slowly began a love-hate relationship with the cumbersome instrument. After attending college at nearby Butler University in Indianapolis on a few voice scholarships, I spent my last cash-strapped year of school at IU and, in a last-ditch effort to complete an Independent Study course, squeezed out a random 5-song EP in the nearby seclusion of Farm Fresh Studios(see "The Fnords).Not sure what I had on my hands, I soon sequestered myself in downtown Columbus, bought a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-107 and began teaching piano and vocal lessons on it. I also started noodling around with song ideas, utilizing the 16-track recording capabilities of the digital juggernaut.Far from having mastered the instrument, I did manage to give arduous birth to "Warm and Mandatory," an album of soundtrack-like compositions that ranged from sentimental early 80's yearning(A Tear for E.B.) to early 80's police show themes(Hoboken Heat) to lovelorn midnight stargazing(I Know You're Out There), as well as others inspired by bits of films, lines from arcane books, and the ghosts of former companions.I am now working on an album inspired by a romantic supernova I experienced 11 years ago. It will include songs that were written as far back as 1999 that have stubbornly refused to be buried. "White Dress" is one of those, a demo version of which appears on this page. While it sometimes feels like my own private "Chinese Democracy," I am confident that this thing will see the light of day. With your feedback and encouragement, it will be sooner still."Warm and Mandatory" is available for download on this page via the handy Snocap store, as well as on iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, emusic, and MusicNet, and physical CDs can be obtained at precoderecords.com, Amazon.com and CDBaby.com."The Fnords" EP, with all of its confusion and bombast, can be downloaded via Snocap from the Fnords Myspace page (http://myspace.com/thefnordsonprecode) as well as be obtained from all of the places mentioned above.Thanks for listening, and namaste.
