Music

Music has always been part of my life. My mother was a musician. I was around it all from a very young age. I fell in love with hip-hop in my teens and that eventually segued into electronic music. I taught myself how to make music with a sampler and a groovebox. That creative release felt like finding a new language that I could speak, especially with the dawn of the early internet era and what it did for music as a whole. It started my personal creative journey.

Long before all of this had a name or a direction, I was making music under a rotating cast of aliases in that early internet era. Technology caught up with my ambition and between 2010-2015 I got serious. I played live. I released a full length. I was signed to a small Portland label. The Bear and the Sea was the most honest version of that chapter.

Then I got a little older and family happens. The reality of the near impossibility of making actual money as an independent artist sets in. Time becomes an issue. I had a day job. Illustration was something I could do in between everything else. Slowly it became the thing I focused on. Making music began to fade from that picture. SheeleyCo is where all of it eventually landed. Same feelings with a different medium.

This is that chapter, for the record. I still dream about making music again so the book isn't fully written. I'm certain there's going to be more to tell.