Self Help for Trolls / I + Everything / Untangled Knots (@selfhelp4trolls)
Building community, Healing with music and words...and trolling
Tomorrow Begins Today - My first single is out
I woke up 2 hours earlier than I had planned and was about to go back to sleep when I noticed a notification as I checked the time. My song had released on streaming platforms. This release is a li...
Becoming the Mountians and the Ocean - “To Know Where” by I+everything
I started playing music in Tokyo in 2010 but I discovered myself as an artist between the mountains and the ocean on a tiny little island with both city and village life 10 minutes apart from each ...
Halfway to the finish line
Somehow 5 days went by and I was completed deflated and unable to work on the album but then last night at 10 PM, all the excitement came back and so started mixing again until 3 AM. I think the ov...
5 Perfect Albums & "Incoming Signal" by I+everything
I never claim to be obsessed with music. I believe music is ingrained in our DNA. I believe it is what breaths life into us. It is an emotional representation of the geometry that makes up existenc...
Songs that tell their own stories and come together to tell a larger story - “This House and All the Ghosts that Haunt it” - I+everything
For those who are unaware, I am currently working on a 10 track studio album. A few months ago I released a live album on streaming called “Resonance Experiments 1-2” which features 3 of the songs ...
Shoot for the Moon, End up on the Sun 🌞 🌚
An October release for the album is looking more and more unlikely, but I am wondering if that’s not a good thing. Having that as the original deadline was a good idea because I got my ass in gear ...
From Folk to Prog Rock to Psychedelic Pop. - “Speaking Leaves” by I+everything
This week is really testing my limits. I woke up and had class for 2 hours, then I met a friend visiting from overseas. Then two more classes, then I went to a concert with another friend from over...
To Jam or not to Jam - “The Dig” by I+everything
I just pushed submit on our first single from our first studio album (or rather, home-studio album). As excited as I am, I know how much can happen in two weeks and I know that excitement fades a f...
Fuck it, we’ll do it DIY!
Due to various circumstances of the five different people I contacted to mix my album, ranging from work and breakups to prison time, I started trying to mix one of the 10 songs on the album to a l...
You learn so fast when…
Last night I realized it’s 2026. It suddenly occurred to me that I have memory of almost anything that happened in 2022 or 2023 or 2024 or the first half of 2025. My mind is nearly blank. I can rem...
Entering the final phase
I needed to get half the work out of the way before I could make a chart that would organize what work was left to do, otherwise the workload would completely overwhelm me. The preliminary mixing a...
The Fire of Conviction.
Conviction. That’s all that was missing. I wish someone could have made that diagnosis earlier. All my blaming the world, blaming those who stood in the way, all those years caught in the victim tr...
The Perfectionist Awakens
I thought our first completely completed track was completely completed, but the more we listened, the more we decided we wanted to make it better. We spent the entire afternoon adding new vocal tr...
What if no one cares?
I found a working version of the song that was corrupted and so now I have 80-90% complete versions of 8/9 songs, though there’s one I may re-record. I thought it’d be a good time to share a little...
An independent musicians worst nightmare?
I keep pushing myself to stay ahead of schedule, partly because I’m excited to release music seriously for the first time, but then also because I have no idea what might go wrong along the way. I’...