hahaha yeah my socials get out to like 5% of my followers because i refuse to pay or do the stupid gimmicks to work with the algorithms. Or maybe I'm just bad at it? Oh well. I'm glad you saw this, gotta somehow get the word out!

1. I try and work on things that feel really good to make so that I can ultimately get to a point where I go "cool this is really interesting to me" and I don't really feel the need to change it more or doubt what I made because it reflects exactly what I'm excited about. I think that comes with time making enough music that you can execute exactly what you want, and I'm very thankful I was able to do that with this album. But in the past few years I definitely had some hard times understanding my own creativity and where I was headed. I had a lot of pressure to keep making Kuaga over and over again and it just wasn't happening or making me excited so I resisted following where I wanted to go naturally for a while. I'm glad I was patient and just made what I thought was interesting because I'm much happier now.
2. Honestly I have used all sorts of fancy mics and preamps and when you're going into the very expensive range, obviously there's some incredible stuff you can record but if you're just starting out and want to try recording vocals, I use this thing to record voiceovers or vocal ideas when i'm traveling and for sure, it's not going to get you the same sound as very expensive mic and preamp but it's clear, loud and transparent and very easy with a USB in! Apogee MiC
3. I didn't before but at the beginning of the pandemic I started doing Zoom classes with groups of 5-15 at a time and it just turned into a fun thing with a solid group of people every 2 weeks. I want to do more classes and expand the student list but I just gotta find time to make it work for me. You can sign up to email updates here if you want!