This Album Was Born From Airport Layovers
In my late-teens, I was an aspiring beat maker.
Hunched over FruityLoops 4.0, I spent too many nights cranking out rough sketches. I wasn’t super good, but I was just talented enough to know music wouldn’t pay the bills.
But the habit stuck, even after advertising swallowed daytime hours. Lo-fi beats are still my creative fuel; or, to sound less corporate, my productivity crack cocaine. I don’t just listen, I make my own. So, while others binge in-flight movies, I bust out the laptop, open Logic, and tinker.
Last year a long layover in the Prague airport birthed a little track that teleported me to a foggy morning at Watford Junction, circa 2010: £2 coffee, grey sky, and the feeling of being a dreaming dumb kid in a new country. That memory became the spark for more tracks.
Generative music tools became my sketchpad, and a way to browse through ideas really fast. But the real fun was layering the human crumbs: riffs with my old Telecaster recorded in my living room, programming simple drums and textures pulled from my personal archive of field recordings; gulls over the Venice Pier, hostel chatter from Barcelona circa 2008.
Twenty nine tracks later, I guess the sketches had grown album.
Autumns Past: Lo-fi for Leaves & Leaving is a sonic diary of dusty Rhodes, mellow drums, and a little nostalgia. Ideal for long walks, watching trains depart and the art of overthinking.
Press play above for the full mixtape ride. Or find your favorite moments from the album on Spotify, Youtube Music ,and Apple Music.
