ATL EP by Roofman

In the last week of February 2020, I flew over to Atlanta to visit my good friends, Rhett and Philip. This was right before the pandemic became a serious issue. I flew back to the Netherlands almost on the day the world shut down air travel. We made a promise to see each other at least twice a year. We already had plans in place to record some stuff together.
In November 2021, after the worst period of the pandemic, we finally got a chance to get the group back together again and took all the time we had to record the first Roofman album at Clouds Hill in Hamburg, Germany. That was the first time we actually made music together and we liked it! Rhett was telling me about his plans of building his own studio in Atlanta. ”When my studio is done I wanna record an EP with you in my basement.”
About two years later (in May 2023) here I am, sitting in Atlanta, picking a couple of my songs that would fit the Atlanta band and session; Rhett (guitar/producing), Philip (bass), me, and a very talented musician, Chad (drums/keys), who I’ve never met before. Rhett got his hands on a vintage Tascam 388 8-track tape machine. We like it analog and old. In 4 days, we recorded 5 songs. It was just a couple of friends making music in a basement and trying to capture the moment.

Having accepted the fact that life may well be pointless, Roofman remains a romantic nonetheless. Reminiscing about nature, nurture, love as well as our simple daily thoughts, his lyrics paint the pictures we never thought we’d find the words for.

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