‘Cloud A’ is my 3rd album, made at home in East Los Angeles during the first 3 years of my son's life.

The album began as journal entries or little zones that I could hang with for a while. Just these loops that felt right with me for whatever mood I was in. Each track was composed of layers of first or second takes that were then edited down, whenever I found an hour or two to revisit and sort through them. I tried to replicate guitar tones on a lot of the album using synths and distortion, as an acknowledgment to my Dad. He was a guitar player and I’ve only heard one of his recordings on a cassette tape that I can’t find anymore. He passed away last summer and I never got the chance to speak to him since I was 8 or so.

I didn’t grow up with my Dad around… he was a musician, surfer and artist who struggled with a mental illness and substance abuse that prevented him from being in our lives. In the few memories I do have of him when I was a child, he introduced me to guitar, skateboarding and art. Things that have guided me through life to get where I am. With this, fragments of memories, fabricated memories and attempts to piece together what I thought our relationship might have been like in those early years pass through my mind as I raise my son.