Something very different from the back catalog of previously unreleased AViD recordings - a short album comprised entirely of guitar, recorded live with a 4-track recorder in a Houston hotel room during the Summer of 2004.
A stylistic departure from the electronic music AViD usually creates, but also a harbinger of the atmospheric "Promises" & "Regrets" double LP of 2008, these sparse but melodic and atmospheric songs were built layer by layer without any computers or subsequent editing.
Says AViD: "A few technological steps and 5 years back in how I approached making music. I needed creative outlet, but could only fit my guitar, recorder and effects box into my car for a summer in Houston. The possibilities and tensions were enticing - once the notes hit the metal oxide, I had decisions to make -let it lay or take it back forever by erasing and re-recording the whole track. So, while there's an immediacy to playing live and settling into a groove or atmosphere, each song really took quite a while to finish. I spent countless late-night hours listening to playback, re-recording, staring at the little LED monitors and pan pots on my 4-track machine, coming to terms with what I was trying to say when jamming along with three earlier versions of me, each with their rough edges and moments of avid earnestness."
![[item image]](http://ia600800.us.archive.org/9/items/Nightly_Conversations_with_Former_Versions_of_me/AVID_nightly_Cover_thumb.jpg?cnt=0 "[item image]")
![[help]](/images/question.gif "[help]")
![[Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States]](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png "[Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States]")
