This is a long playing album that takes the format of many classic era records. The song sequence is one that has been carefully considered, and is meant to be heard in order from start to finish.

Morbid Euphoria is a thematic tale about Ignorance Is Bliss. An experience where human morals collide with behavioral instincts.

The kid banter audio snippets injected throughout the album are from my earliest childhood tape recordings.


Side A - Innocence


Liquid State - This song developed out of a simple synthesizer riff over a drum machine groove. The lyrics don’t have any particular meaning, but convey an attitude within the context of the music. “Nothing’s gonna happen.” Is that good or bad?

Fever Dream - Originally a white-boy blues written on an acoustic guitar featuring lyrics like “my baby set me free and she let me go, now I can’t look back ‘cause I don’t need to know.” The lyrics were rewritten to reflect the theme of the album.

Get Gnarly - A rather honky sounding synth preset evoked the major/minor riff I sequenced only as a joke. That joke cascaded and evolved into a complete boogie with lyrics about loving to hate our cliché human encounters and routines. This is where innocence plays with experience in a sexual horseplay that many humans experience at a premature age.

First Time Again - This simple two chord song started with a drum machine loop and a phased synthesizer drone. The lyrics convey personal contradictions towards moral lines we will and will not cross.

Broken Show - I recorded myself improvising with a bass guitar while singing. Nearly every lyric is from that improv session. A similar bass riff was used in an intro song I composed for a family friends podcast he called “The Broken Show.”

Little Flame - The opening tom-tom groove goes back to the earliest rap beats I produced when I was in Jr. High school on my friends beginner keyboard. The title for this rap song song is “‘Cause I’m Back.” This track was intended for my first solo rap album “Money, Power, and Disrespect.” Only the instrumentals and some lyrics written on paper exist to this unfinished project. The song developed into what is now a more of a gospel-inspired arrangement with a repetitive prayer-like lyric.

Ever Station - This song that finishes the first half of Morbid Euphoria was written around a drum machine groove and a flanged synth drone. A raunchy baritone guitar completes the groove and adds tension to the whimsical vocal melody. The lyrics? What do you think they mean?


Side B - Experience


Prism Sentence - The electric guitar riff followed a droning note on a synthesizer. This was a song originally recorded as an improvised jam on a four track.

Eventide - A simple synth rhythm provided the groove for another synth melody to follow. This is Eve asking Adam to open his eyes or keep them closed to the World of Knowledge with a fruit. This is Morpheus urging Neo to wake up or stay asleep by choosing Red or Blue Pill. Do not be afraid. Make a choice.

Every Nothing - I made a test recording on a digital recording machine of myself playing a drum set. I quickly wrote a guitar part to accompany the drums and that guitar lick would become this song. Exploring thematic juxtapositions of positive and negative reinforcement and ending in a cosmic impromptu guitar jam.

Shine Through - A hippy jam turned into a happy song about suicide. A story about a character who wishes to end their life by jumping off a bridge, but encounters a bird and a troll along the way. Does he jump or does he face his life?

Mysterium - I wrote the main guitar riff for a rap song of the same name we produced in high school. The pretty chord sequence and vocal melody create an unsettling feeling when contrasted with the ugly distortion and heavy drum grooves.

Riddle Me - The drum machine must’ve come first, and then the acoustic guitar chords. The lyrics sparked from a ghostly encounter where I felt and saw the presence of a recently deceased family cat.

All backing tracks were recorded straight to cassette using the Tascam 238 Syncaset.