Zach Dracula - my new band!!!
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2023 11:52 am
It's been a while. More nerdy songs about sci-fi shit.
Really, though, this has a personal story behind it.
Just before the pandemic, I had been planning a bunch of Cartographer stuff. We were supposed to record in spring 2020 and do some light touring in summer 2020; hoping to do the BBQ. Of course, that didn't happen, so I used the next year to start to get more material together. Then Chris, my long time friend and Cartographer/Replicator drummer, died in 2021. It hit me harder than I realized. I was already de-motivated from the pandemic. Now the process of creating music filled me with sadness and guilt. I just ground to a halt, creatively. The only thing I was ever enthusiastic about was bike riding and traveling.
So, Claudia saw that I was pretty fucked up. She put an ad on Nextdoor that was like "is your husband a middle-aged rock dude into weirdo music with a steady job and doesn't want to make it?" it got a ton of replies and I met a dude named Greg who just moved here from Austin. He's a killer bassist, programs audio chips for Cirrus Logic, builds basses and amps, and is into esoteric music shit. It's been great. I've slowly been able to come out of my shell and we wrote and developed a bunch of songs.
Finally, after lots of indecision and issues getting started, we finally got some music released. This is just a stop-gap, a classic "demo" to announce that we exist, get some shows, and see how we want the band to operate. Mainly, though, it just feels good to be proud of making music again.
Really, though, this has a personal story behind it.
Just before the pandemic, I had been planning a bunch of Cartographer stuff. We were supposed to record in spring 2020 and do some light touring in summer 2020; hoping to do the BBQ. Of course, that didn't happen, so I used the next year to start to get more material together. Then Chris, my long time friend and Cartographer/Replicator drummer, died in 2021. It hit me harder than I realized. I was already de-motivated from the pandemic. Now the process of creating music filled me with sadness and guilt. I just ground to a halt, creatively. The only thing I was ever enthusiastic about was bike riding and traveling.
So, Claudia saw that I was pretty fucked up. She put an ad on Nextdoor that was like "is your husband a middle-aged rock dude into weirdo music with a steady job and doesn't want to make it?" it got a ton of replies and I met a dude named Greg who just moved here from Austin. He's a killer bassist, programs audio chips for Cirrus Logic, builds basses and amps, and is into esoteric music shit. It's been great. I've slowly been able to come out of my shell and we wrote and developed a bunch of songs.
Finally, after lots of indecision and issues getting started, we finally got some music released. This is just a stop-gap, a classic "demo" to announce that we exist, get some shows, and see how we want the band to operate. Mainly, though, it just feels good to be proud of making music again.
