GRAND ARMÉE (2025)

This has been a labor du love for about 20 years, first painstakingly making tracks in GoldWave on my PC in my childhood bedroom, cutting and pasting loops into a master WAV, using longhand in a notebook to denote time-stretches and effects. I’m sure there were DAWs around at that time, I just didn’t know any better. I was young, dumb, and y’know, full of artistic genius.

After several failures to launch over the last few years, I have rebuilt, remastered, and completely changed those original songs in Ableton, as I only had 256kbps MP3s (I hope) of the original album. Proper archiving was not a top priority in my youth (what the top priorities of that time is unclear), and one of these songs took a good six months to find the original break I had used. I even installed a Windows 95 virtual machine so I would be able to read dozens of old AKAI sample CDs, only to eventually find it on a random drum loop site. Such is the tortured life of a professional musician.