The name of this LP is “Side One.”

On Sunday, I published Side One of my album on Bandcamp. The name of the album is also “Side One.” It is instrumental music with roots in Soundtrack, hip-hop, funk, jazz, 19th Century Romantic classical, ambient, electronic, and art rock. You might wonder if those divergent genres belong together, but the proof is in the listening.For complicated reasons, I haven’t composed, produced, and released music since the late 1980s, back in the multi-track reel-to-reel and early MIDI days! A few months ago, a friend bought me a terrific Digital Audio Workstation, I’m teaching myself this entirely new (to me) way of producing music by creating music—like I taught myself HTML and CSS by making websites. It feels like there is no end to the music that has built up inside me over the past decades when I silenced this part of myself. I am thrilled to be creating and sharing music again. I have no commercial expectations for these tracks; I just want people who might like my music to be able to…