Perfect Timing

At 16 I was depressed and suicidal. I probably wouldn't be here without albums like NIN's Still. "Leaving Hope" is, to this day, a piano riff I play when I sit at any new piano/keyboard to test how it feels and sounds.

I digress, but at 16 my parents bought be a used upright piano to try and snap me out of that depression. It – in and of itself – didn't fix the whole situation, but now I could try and learn how to play these songs from Still. My ears still very immature, I learned every song I could find sheet music for.

Fast-foward another lifetime to 2021. I'm living alone for the first time in ~12 years. My piano is still at my parents' house. I'd been seeing a woman, Amanda, for almost a year. She understands how much that piano means to me. As a Christmas surprise, she has the piano moved from my parents' house to my house.

"NO WAYYYYY!"

–me, seeing the moving truck pull into my driveway

Nine months later and we moved into a new house together. My old piano made another trek, despite the new house including a grand piano. Two months after that we were engaged.

As we started planning the wedding, we had decided to hire a band to play. I got the idea to compose a piece of music that Amanda could walk down the aisle to, so I started writing. We were married on 9/23/2023. Danny of DZ Combo performed it for our ceremony.

This recording is an electronic adaptation of that composition. I went for more of a slow-dance tempo than a processional. Everything you hear is from the Digitone.

Maybe a piano recording of the original... some day...