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recording songs as a means of staving off existential melancholy

I’m finally, finally recording some songs I’ve written over the last couple years and it’s always shocking how much better I feel working on music after a long break.

I’ve been playing a songwriter night most weeks and at home, writing a little, but the intentionality (however sloppy on my part) and labor of home recording fills some unidentifiable void in me that nothing else can. Always has, since I started on a cheap, crappy cassette recorder with a built-in microphone so many years ago.

Even with the transience of literally everything in the universe, even with that inescapably aching existential melancholy, the process makes me feel like I’m creating something solid and indestructible.

Stay tuned.

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Other People’s Music Review of What Lives and What Grows

Ether Diver, impressively dedicated reviewer (and maker) of music, gave us a nice little writeup on Other People’s Music, even comparing our music to one of my favorite albums. Check it out! And definitely listen to Ether Diver. I pick up some Lucio Fulci and George A. Romero film vibes from Psychedelic Ghost Stories. Great stuff.

Folky Americana that recognizes electronic music is part of American music.

Read the whole thing and find some new music.

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RBK talk to TulsaPeople about songwriting and recording at a distance

“Going in, my biggest fear was just coming up with song ideas,” he says. “I’d never put together a writing schedule before. I was always just like, ‘I need to wait for the inspiration to come to me.’”

To foster that inspiration, the singer-songwriter not only pulled from life experience, but also took in as much art as possible across multiple mediums.

Brandon Schmitz, TulsaPeople

Pick up a copy if you’re in Tulsa, or read the article at TulsaPeople.

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Tulsa World talks to Zach about Song Every Seven

For Zach Fountain, last Sunday proved to be a somewhat unsettling day.

“I kept having this feeling that I was missing some kind of very important meeting,” he said, with a nervous little laugh. “I just felt odd all day.”

The explanation is simple. March 7 was the first Sunday in a year that Fountain was not in the back room of his Tulsa home, recording a song he had written just days before.

James D. Watts Jr., Tulsa World

Read the article and watch the video.

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song every seven

RBK wrote, recorded, and released one song every Tuesday from March 10, 2020 to March 2, 2021, with original artwork complementing each song.

Listen here or listen/download over at bandcamp.

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