We Had To Do Something, by Sycamore Willow

We Had To Do Something

by Sycamore Willow

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Samuel Death (tides) Is it all good? Nope. Its amazing. A collection of beautifully crafted and highly emotive tracks, great stuff my friend Favorite track: Sunday Grey Blue.

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1.	We Shouldn't Be Here 03:18	info	buy track
2.	Sunday Grey Blue 06:51	info	buy track
3.	Dawn Climb 03:51	info	buy track
4.	Descend, Descend, Through the Darkness, Through the Light 05:35	info	buy track
5.	Watching Your Friends Change 04:51	info	buy track
6.	As the Stars Get Closer 07:26	info	buy track
7.	Sleep's Deepest Dream 05:07	info	buy track
8.	At the Portal Before the Exit 07:13	info	buy track
9.	After the Smoke Clears 03:46	info	buy track
10.	Bend 05:27	info	buy track
11.	Scandanavian Holiday 12:47	info	buy track
12.	Mandelbrot Landscape 06:35	info	buy track
13.	Kolkata Shortwave 06:09	info	buy track
14.	Mirror Trees 05:06	info	buy track
15.	Aftereverything (Pastoral) 04:51		buy track
16.	For a Few Dollars More 03:02	info	buy track
17.	Ode to DJ Shadow 06:19	info	buy track
18.	Stumbling Half Awake 04:59	info	buy track
19.	Winter 04:17	info	buy track
20.	Welcome Presence 03:46	info	buy track
21.	Beneath the Concrete, an Ocean 04:29	info	buy track
22.	Trams 03:00	info	buy track
23.	Don't Think, Stay Aloft 03:41	info	buy track
24.	Driving Through the Dark 04:55	info	buy track
25.	Colors of Memory 05:45	info	buy track
26.	Deep Shadows of Redwoods 05:54	info	buy track
27.	Waking from a Nap: Music Through the Apartment Wall 04:06	info	buy track

about

Not long after lockdown in 2020, I knew I should simply put my head down and finally make some music. Of course, I know I wasn't alone. In a way that makes it even better, knowing I was part of a massive, unspoken agreement that in the face of necessary isolation, a bunch of us would go off and do the same thing -- but with different results.

My task every week was to make something and call it done. Deadlines, even when they are artificial have great powers. You end up making choices instead of dithering. And as a musician who has done a lot of procrastinating this helped me get unstuck as well as helped give me something to lose myself in during a pandemic.

Coincidentally, I was learning to make music in ways I'd never really done before. After decades of exclusively writing songs on guitar I was bored with the process and the instrument. As a result, for me this album is a nice way to document all the new ways I was learning to make music.

Is it all good? Nope. But it's all done and that makes me super happy.

I hope you enjoy something out of this as well.

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released August 30, 2021

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Sycamore Willow San Francisco, California

I love making murky music -- ambient, drones and even songs with beats. I use effects pedals, tape and other fun toys to design sounds and textures to create dreamy atmospheres. I'm forever making the soundtrack to an imagined film.

discography

Mermaid Man

Mar 2023
SuperDream™

Aug 2022
Waltz for Hubble

Jun 2022
BOARDWALK

Mar 2022
Star Jar

Nov 2021
Angelo Badalamenti Sunday

Nov 2021
Ketamine Poppy

Sep 2021
The Last Memories

Sep 2021
We Had To Do Something

Aug 2021
No. 2

Jul 2020
No. 1

Apr 2020
Ambient 47

Sep 2018

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