As I'm sure you're aware, Los Angeles is coming up on nearly a year of COVID-19-haze - meaning that we're also coming up on a (very bleak) year of no live music or touring - What have you been up to, off-stage, for the past 365 days?
It is so crazy. I'm very grateful for the fact that I live alone in a nice, tiny house with a big yard which has essentially become my entire world. At the beginning of 2020 I started converting this little office into a home studio, so when the pandemic hit I was strangely already in the process of building it out and stepping up my knowledge of recording, and it's really been such a life saver. It took me all of last year to really get it to the point where I felt confident enough to put it on blast, but since January I've been doing a bunch of remote violin sessions and I just started working on some compositions for thriller movie trailers! FEELS recorded an EP literally as the initial lock down went into effect last March and that's coming out really soon, and we've been getting together to jam and work on the next album. I've got a solo record that a friend of mine and I had been working on between busy touring schedules over the last couple years, and now it's finally getting very close to being finished. And then of course, teaching for Jail Guitar Doors a couple times per week. Besides strictly music stuff I've also been driving out to Palmdale twice a week to take care of my grandmother who has early Alzheimers and lives alone. She's from communist Romania- moved here in her fifties- and is full of amazing stories about being a little girl during World War II and a working Mom in the 60's. She loves giving me manicures.
