Below are the notes I originally had on the Bandcamp site, but decided they were more personal than I wanted there.
In the summer of 2019, I moved into a house in suburban Baltimore County and rediscovered some forgotten parts of myself. As a child, I had lived on a series of Air Force bases, which mostly were pretenders to suburbia, but military culture prevented their full absolution. We finally moved “off base” when I was 12, settling into an archetypally suburban development on what was then the outskirts of Albuquerque; I lived in that house for nine years and it became my template for home. The first house I bought, after living in a series of increasingly urban environments, was technically in the suburbs of New York City, but the fact was that our little oasis in the metropole was exactly that: the exception to the norm. My second house was in a much more typically suburban neighborhood, a lovely Levittown clone northwest of DC. I lived there for a brief and tumultuous five years before abandoning it in a divorce; it would be another seven before, rather unexpectedly, I found myself reconnecting in a healthy and welcome way with my suburban roots in the north of Baltimore. In these field recordings, I hope to convey the nostalgia, the relief, and the reconnection that I have discovered here.
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