Here you can find links to my album and single releases plus collaborations.
Lofi Ambient Jazz Guitar (Live in Bend, Oregon)
For this session, I wanted everything to feel unhurried and textural. I played my Ibanez AF95FM hollow-body guitar, strung with pure nickel roundwound 9s. I like playing light gauge at gigs and it makes legato easy. The pure nickel strings are a bit more warm and vintage sounding.
In my signal chain I used a JHS Hall Reverb, using the modulation switch to add a bit of a chorus effect. I set the decay time short, kept the tone damped, and dialed the mix slightly more wet than dry to keep things deep and lush.
I also used a Donner White Tape Delay (cheap but good), which added a soft analog echo. Subtle enough to blend into the space without clouding the notes. I also used a compressor to gently even out the transients and keep everything smooth.
From there, I ran into a Quilter 101 Reverb amp head, which gave the tone clarity and a warm response even at low volume.
Each track is a live improvisation based on an original melody and chord changes. I played slowly and let the sound evolve between notes breathe. That pacing helped the lofi jazz atmosphere emerge organically, giving space for reverb tails, delay trails, and tone textures to interact naturally.
Inner Landscape
This album is a collection of free improvisations, including one longer piece I split into multiple tracks.
Waterfall’s Edge (Improvised Jazz Guitar Prelude)
Midnight Silence (Improvised Jazz Guitar Prelude)
Blue Before Dusk
Sleep Music 1
I’ve long been inspired by ambient music and sleep to it almost every night. This release features a 53-minute track of slow guitar and light effects. The track slowly changes over time. It’s available on all major streaming platforms.
Read More: Sleep Music 1
Well In The Woods – En Memoria (2020)
Well In The Woods is made of Joy Woodburn (voice, production, keyboard) and Brogan Woodburn (guitar). We were living on Oregon’s coast in Seaside at the time. This album goes between heavy industrial rock and softer, longing sounds you can compare to intros or interludes of some Porcupine Tree songs.
Venerable Showers of Beauty – Cherish, Consider, Conserve, Create: Compositions for Gamelan by Lou Harrison (2017)
I was one of about a dozen musicians on this recording (with Joy Woodburn as well) led by the amazing Mindy Johnston. From Bandcamp: “The Venerable Showers of Beauty (VSB) Gamelan is a group of Lewis & Clark College students, alumni and community members, based in Portland, Oregon, specializing in the performing arts of Java. Founded in 1980, the VSB Gamelan has performed throughout the Northwest at hundreds of events. Mindy Johnston is the current director.”
Joy and I both rotated playing gamelan instruments like the gambang, gender (pronounced with a hard g), bonang, and gong. Playing in a gamelan was an amazing experience. If you haven’t heard of the music before, check it out. Gamelan Pacifica is another great group based in the Northwest (I got to play in that as a student at Cornish under Jarrad Powell way back in 2008-2009). Gamelan instruments use their own scales that are completely different from the equal-tempered notes we’re used to in Western music.