It has been a full, challenging year - not as much for me as for many, thanks to good health and steady employment - but still: new baby (Sept. '19), new job (City Council), and back surgery kept it interesting. So I want to pat myself on the back for making a lot of music (🧵):
Early in the year, while recovering from surgery, I recorded a bunch of songs I was making up for the baby. This one is about her and me both being immobile and in bed:
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/mWct8
These are the ones that her mom appreciated because she could play them when Mailén was fussy in the car to calm her down:
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/t5zBP
This one calms her down too, and I'm especially proud of it because it's a children's song about the 4th Amendment warrant requirement for home searches.
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/9TKEi
Naturally, I had to make some quarantine covers, many with family participation:
(These two are probably my favorite quarantine-themed covers)
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I also made COVID- and quarantine-themed original songs!
(this one is with Self Suffice on the helpout)
Also, there were songs that weren't specifically about the pandemic:
Here's a song I made using all the random stuff (including a violin) I found in my mom's house while I stayed there when she got very sick from cancer: instagram.com/tv/CDHHVMSptRB…
And here's the song I started writing while on vacation with my family and started recording on the day of her funeral. Listen to La Reina by Josh Michtom on #SoundCloud
soundcloud.app.goo.gl/1VZe
And then I also practiced playing some covers live by myself using the looping machine:instagram.com/tv/CCCz4pap8Q1…
That's all. I just wanted to brag a bit because music and the baby were the highlights of a hard year. Let's hope next year is better.

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