This album, released to coincide with the last foreseeable Bandcamp fee/revenue share waiver day planned in support of COVID-19 relief and racial equity (more on this series of revenue waiver fundraisers here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser), consists of instrumental guitar-oriented mixes constructed and recorded between the Spring of 2018 and the Fall of 2019, and also includes a selection of outtakes from earlier albums, demos, voice memos, experimental sketches, improvised vignettes, and spacey oddities.
All proceeds collected from sales of this album to be donated, split evenly between Truthout (https://truthout.org/) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (https://www.eff.org/).
Life Guitar is memory, both the vaguely familiar and vividly recent. It’s youthful nostalgia and surreal daydreams. It’s the fleeting and ephemeral, but also what is persistent and reoccurring. It’s the sedan adventures of a 1950s teenager, 1980s apocalyptic fear, the grain in the Hi8 film of a 1990s home video. Most of all, it’s remembering how to use your imagination to go back.