Because you like folk music with modern influences

1. Diverse lyric topics, but centred on real life stuff like friends, marriage, jobs, mortgages, kids, etc.  
2. Some cool twist in the music, like a maj 7th chord, or interesting electronic sounds blended with acoustics

• I'll start to release an acoustic re-make album in 2024
• I continue to make new instruments for studio and stage use
• Extending the co-writing project with Carlos F. Mason Wehby, that produced 4 singles in 2023 
• I started another EP project for release on my 25th wedding anniversary (summer 2024)

Growing up before the ubiquity of home recording, Jason learned his craft as the classic voice and guitar combination.  From the very beginning he was not interested in the common ballad.  The first album Ambidextrous was written for solo performance, and it lived that way as a solo acoustic set performed many times before it was ever recorded.  To keep the solo act fresh, most of the songs had twists like delicate finger-picked passages melting into punchy power chords.  Everything was self-taught and figured out intuitively.  When finally recorded, Ambidextrous included several over-dubbed layers but remained, at its heart, an acoustic folk album.  

After the long mortgage-paying break, and a leap forward in recording technology, the home studio experimentation started in about 2016.  Like playing the actual music, recording engineering was self-taught.  The album White Collar Melodies was born here, grew up to be a teenager, but it never really adulted.  A whole new writing style emerged from the ability to cut, paste, loop, and infinitely layer.  No considerations given to the difficulty of actually performing it.  There was still a strong resistance to synthesizers at this stage but the virtual organs sounded good and were all over the final album.   Many electric guitars passed through as rentals, and some were kept.   There was experimentation with time signatures and more fancy chords, and the album included Jason's first punk song.  It was a bit of a genre mess, but tied together strongly with the lyrical theme that all songs related back to working in an office.   White Collar Melodies was also a one-man show: Jason played every sound, self-recorded, mixed, and mastered it.

Since White Collar Melodies took almost 3yrs to finish while still working the day-job, Jason stepped back to consider creative options after this.  He joined a few bands and they broke up.   Synthesizers were finally embraced, while mixing and mastering was released to other engineers.   Thirty-ish tracks on a collection of singles and EP's have been released in the 5 years since White Collar Melodies.   Many of these songs also included collaboration with other players.  2024 is starting with a new album of acoustic remakes, called Power Down, slowly releasing.   After Power Down, multiple other studio projects are already in progress.  

Email at j.pilling.music@gmail.com

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