Here we still are, masked and 6 feet apart, waiting for good news, believing in hope. Here also is Volume 2 of Viral Times. This series started with Volume 1, an EP of four instrumentals written during lockdown in Upstate New York during the early days of the pandemic. This new volume is a continuation of the process and a new set of soundscape pieces to hopefully be a soundtrack  or some kind of aural escape hatch to the offset the grim news of these confusing times. The pieces vary from the dance of VT 31, to the more crepuscular......

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Viral Times is a collection of thoughts and improvisations from my time in self isolation with my family in upstate New York due to the Pandemic. In what seems to be a dismantling of our world in slow motion we were lucky enough to have a sanctuary in our home in the country upstate New York and as a form of therapy and discipline I tried to sit with the guitar everyday and improvise a piece based on my moods, experiences and what nature brought in. The pieces all started with an improvisation captured and recorded. Weeks later and only......

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