Carl

APPLESEED (FEAT. @Teller_Banks357) OUT NOW. PROD. AMARAH. I THINK I FOUND THE END. JUNE 5TH.

10 YEARS OF RAMONA 💙✨ Honestly, I don’t even know where to start on this. It both feels like it was just yesterday and a lifetime ago when I was recording this tape. I was in Columbia, SC at the time, recording in a shared living room of a townhouse with some of the best friends a guy could have. I didn’t know what we were making, but I did know it was special. At least to me. Rav flew cross-continent to come stay with me for a few months and make some music in person. At the time, people thought this was a little crazy. We had never met in person and only knew each other through talking online. I was working a student job and we’d record when I got home after a few bong rips pretty much every day. While he was there, we chatted with our friend Scuare via skype who really encouraged me to make a project. There was a gravity in how he expressed it, as if I was wasting my summer if I didn’t seize the opportunity and capture the lightning in the bottle of the moment. Through both his and Rav’s encouragement, I buckled down and worked on RAMONA. When I finally finished the record, a day late to my original deadline, I went upstairs to my room and put it on repeat. I listened to it while watching the sun rise from my window. I cried. I’ve never felt something like that before. It felt like I was fully whole creatively. I ugly cried while the record ended. I finally knew what summertime was. Although it was so long ago now, every time I put the record on, a deluge of memories come pouring back to me. What is summertime to you? To me, it’s what keeps me going. A deep need to feel what I felt again. To recreate that wholeness in a different way. I’ve done it a few times, but it feels like it gets harder and harder to do. Life moves so fast now. It makes you appreciate when it happens more. As I write this, I feel it again. An entire decade later, I feel the same feeling, and that’s something special. Nights like this don’t come around every day, you know. STAY GOLD. Limited edition vinyl, 10 year anniversary CDs, tees and posters available now. Shirt and poster artwork by @kumothz Album artwork by feeb-lee Vinyl and CD design by @_itmitch