Words are the Hardest Part of Instrumental Songs

The very worst part about making instrumental music, the hardest part, is naming the songs. And then once you’ve named them, people will, hopefully, comment on a track, and I never have any idea what they’re talking about. There’s a couple I remember, just because I’ve remembered to go back and listen. And it’s never the one you think that someone would like, but whatever. So this record, I’m releasing this week, not for any other reason, but I just got around to it. And it’s got 16 songs, and that is a lot of songs to name. So, I just finished reading the original Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov. And he has a lot of good turns of phrase that I was gonna go look through. But instead, I was lazily downloading some short stories of his. And when I thought of the idea, I was on a random page, and I highlighted 16 phrases, kind of shaped them into whatever, and that’s what I went with. And it’s kind of the same way that I make these songs, too. I just sit down, get an idea, and then…

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