This is a series of experimental and progressive rock recordings I made from 2000-2006.

This is music that is half roller coaster and half plane crash. I pulled these tracks together because the music is mostly heavy, athletic, and adventurous. They are overwhelmingly abstract, more the byproduct of the tumult I felt in my twenties and thirties than a conscious meditation.

To say I didn't integrate well with others is an understatement. I was somehow born without a lot of the social understanding on what makes us a people, and I made just about every mistake one could and survive. At least to some degree I was the cause of the majority of my problems. Couple this with a collapsing economy and ecosystem, you get The Black Box Recordings.

For fun, this time, I have included the text culls I fed to the AI for it to render art. My thanks to Terra for her patience and tenacity programing the AI, rendering images, and generally just being an encouraging fellow artist cannot by overstated.

I am thankful for my friends and family who took the time to understand me when I was in the process of dis-integrating, while clinging to my vestigial "common sense" and trying desperately to fit in. My music is all that I am not as person, confident and monstrous, agile and responsive to threat. I hope you enjoy it.

For those of us that are suffering, please reach out, if not to me, to family or friends, or, in some cases professional help. You don't have to go it alone. Make sure the people who you approach are properly vetted, but vulnerability and honesty are the keys to growth.

***A word about revisions made to album art after initial release: I was wrong about the source of my AI art and it having the potential to hurt living artists and the estates of artists of the past. I apologize for, and own this decision. I held an opinion that I was replicating art of the past so therefore no current artists were being hurt. Given the many uses for AI I was very excited about interacting with it. I no longer believe that to be the case. I am replacing all AI art with photographs I took and edited on my own, and until I can earn enough doing this to hire a local artist, this will be the path I take.