This is the last time I’ll bother you about the album I promise, but I’m gonna tell the story of Ritual Abstract in a somewhat short format just for my own emotional well being.
I left Cloakroom at the end of 2019 just before Covid completely re-calibrated society and was already feeling some kind of way. With the time away and with basically no musical purpose or direction I decided to try and learn piano, guitar, bass and how to sing (all with varying degrees of success) with the expressed purpose of writing and recording my own music.
Also in that time I moved from Northwest Indiana (the region, if you will) to Gainesville Florida (pre-fascist hellcape Florida) to try and deal with life long seasonal depression and because my family desperately needed a change of pace. Around the same time I discovered 40ish years into this life that I have a fairly severe case of ADHD which is currently being treated (also with varying degrees of success.) Anyway, after years and years of grinding away at all of those things until I was satisfied, or at least, not embarrassed by the results I booked time at my buddy Matt’s studio in the middle of nowhere Illinois and started recording Ritual Abstract. That was a little over a year ago and after lots of different setbacks or re-imaginings a record that started in concept at the end of 2019 is now available to hear for the first time.
I have no expectations for this record and I know that this album isn’t a shoegaze album but similarly to my previous bands material I don’t know where this goes. If you read this, thanks for giving me some of your time and also participating in this one last cathartic step of artistic realization.
Sorry for the over all sappiness of this post, it’s just a big deal to me.
