Amystery is an album I recorded roughly between 1992 and 1994 although it drew on material I had written as far back as 1989. I’ve always thought of it as an analog project but I actually used a hybrid recording rig. I had an analog 8 track reel to reel tape recorder time code synched to a Mac SE running midi sequencing software. This gave me seven analog tracks(track 8 was striped with SEMPTE) for vocals and guitars plus 16+ tracks for synths and sampled drums. The album has a rough narrative structure that tells the story of a love affair from it’s beginning stages on to it’s ultimate dissolution. In 1994 I had finished the tracking stage on the album and was beginning rough mixes when the tape machine suffered a breakdown and the project was shelved. In 2000 I acquired another tape machine and transferred the whole project, including the digital tracks, to 24 tracks of digital ADAT tape and then I shelved it again. In 2014 I transferred the project once again into a computer DAW and worked on restoration and mixing in between other projects. In 2019, after 25 years, I released Amystery. Technically speaking the audio quality isn’t the best due to it’s primitive beginnings but I felt I wouldn’t be able to duplicate the emotional quality of the performances I gave when I was younger. In my mind a recording doesn’t simply capture sound. It captures a particular moment in time and space and renders it into a more permanent form. I felt that the moments in time from my life contained in those tapes was worth preserving and ultimately sharing.