May Rio - Easy Bammer - Music CD

Easy Bammer came together swifty and naturally. At the start of lockdown, a friend of mine gave me a head's up that Ableton was doing a three month free trial. It was intimidating at first-I never have (and never will be) a computer person, but I was inspired by the music a number of friends had made with this program. I was pumping out demos, and at some point figured I may as well turn them into real recordings. In the summer I hit up Tony 1 from Tony or Tony (one of my last shows from the old world was a bill I'd shared with them) to see if he'd be interested in producing. We did a sort of loosy-goosy no commitments no worries trial day, but within the first few hours I was just beaming-the sound I was hearing was exactly the sound I'd wanted, and beyond."Same as a lot of people, I felt my world get a lot smaller when the pandemic hit. I'd spent hardly any time at home before, and now this cozy place of refuge-my bedroom-had been transformed into a cozy cell. I think in the album, I'm acting out a lot that I wouldn't be able to do in real life. I know, for instance-I probably shouldn't (or can't) act on this impulse, or say this to so-and-so... but I can wrap it up in these lyrics and box it in with this melody. I don't think it's usually the case, but a lot of times the things we say to other people end up being more for ourselves anyway. These songs became a pillow for me to scream, or sob, into. And sometimes I'm laughing.