guatecoop at gmail.com Please feel free to critique, as it helps me to learn, but please be constructive.

So, today (Jan 28) my dad passed away. Many of you know him as @srcoops. He has had a tremendous life, had a tremendous impact, and leaves a tremendous legacy. I am sad, but grateful. It is an experience of loss, but also of love, support, connectedness, and peace for me. I have been influenced, guided, and inspired by my father. I’m sure that will all come out in my music this year.

I play what sounds good to me. FAWM is fun because I have complete control, for better or for worse. My goals this year are to improve on my mic choice and placement, mixing/eq-ing, and hopefully encourage as many of the people around me to be a part of FAWM to any degree, including my wife and two sons, if possible. I also would enjoy collaborating again with my brother, @zecoop (thank you for getting me into this), as well as others who are interested. Writing a song or two with my sons would be great! In terms of songwriting, I tend to be very chordy and would like to give my songs some more space for layering of sounds and texture.

I truly admire the creativity in others and am energized when I am fortunate to have a spark myself, too. I also do appreciate collaborations and will do whatever I have time for.

*A note about collabs: If someone wants to collab on a song that I've posted, I am fine with that and will post it separately. I also am fine with multiple people doing the same song, as I find it fascinating to see how different people do very different things with the same music. My wife always gets the first choices on songs, of course. I never post a “whatever” kind of song. If it’s posted, I put a lot of effort into the song.