Songs

Below you'll find some old songs. New songs live at futuresevens.com.
Majestic Synthpop/The Dark Land (2007)
"Majestic Synthpop"  celebrates making it from Princeton to Las Vegas in a Chevy Cavalier packed full of gear. "The Dark Land" tempers that optimism. Glasses half full/empty, but mostly full I suppose. 
The New Austerity (2007)
I made this record as a document of my then-new performance setup, stripped of samplers and sequencers and the like and relying only on drums on the left, keys on the right. I played full takes and used the best two on top of each other to make the recording, with Alex Kass at Princeton. Here are a few tracks.
Music for War (2005)
This self-released EP represents a difficult time, waiting for my brother to return from deployments to Iraq and feeling as though I was going crazy whenever I turned on the news. I'm playing keys, drum kit, and sampler, triggering sequences on an old Alesis MMT-8, and sing-shouting. The first two tracks I recorded in X27's brooklyn practice space, while the last one is from a free103.9 radio broadcast of a live performance that I subsequently tweaked. 
Music for Girls (2004)
These are ostensibly in the love/breakup song genre, but you can see other concerns starting to bleed through. I made this EP in my apartment in Queens, though I did record my dad's piano over a Connecticut weekend away from the city. "+" features my first ever, and likely only, guitar solo. 
Noise (2001)
I made this album in Ann Arbor, recorded in my apartment with an upright piano, an acoustic guitar, a synthesizer, brushes on newspaper, mallets on notebook paper, claps, knee slaps, chest beating, and my spoken and sung voice. In a moment of extreme grandiosity I decided to make a thousand copies, so contact me if you want one.