Falling Forward by Renjeaux
The COVID-19 pandemic shook up a lot of things on planet Earth for a couple of years starting in 2020. One of the good things that came out of the odd situation of nationwide lockdown was that a lot of musicians and other creatives found themselves with lots of free time at home.
Such was the case with high school buddies Keith Rowley and Dell Little.
After years of making music together in the early-to-mid 80s, the duo took different life paths. Dell's primary interest has been nature and birding. He has a production company, Canvasback Sound, and he and his wife DD spend lots of time traveling the country and are active in the Texas birding community. And Keith regularly/intermittently makes music on his own as yugenro.
But when the COVID-19 lockdown happened, Dell contacted Keith and said, "hey, remember how, back in the day, we used to listen to cool albums together? I've been watching people on YouTube react to cool music -- I bet we could do something like that."
47 cool episodes later, the Renjeaux Listens to Cool Albums project came to a close, as the duo decided to change course a bit and compose an EP's worth of original music. Falling Forward is the result of about nine months of work, complicated by the fact that they live 1,700 miles apart -- Keith in Seattle and Dell in rural Texas.
"We may get back to the RLtCA project at some point," says Keith. "We saved our absolute favorites for later, so there are easily another 20 or 30 cool albums that we'd like to share. But for now, we're working on growing and publishing our music library. I really like our music and would like to share it with others... and maybe earn a few bucks, too!"
References
Renjeaux Listens to Cool Albums:
https://www.youtube.com/c/renjeaux/videos?app=desktop
Tracklist
| 1. | Foreign Wall | 4:12 |
| 2. | Perpetuous | 4:33 |
| 3. | Little Lamb | 8:25 |
| 4. | Mírrage | 4:15 |
Credits
catalog# wwr13
License
All rights reserved.
Founded in 1984 in Corpus Christi, TX, Renjeaux (pron. "rahn-ZHOH") was a set of musically-inspired friends (Dell, Domingo, Keith, Luis) realizing a dream of playing progressive ’80s new wave in the cultural desolation of early 1980s south Texas.
38 years later, Dell and Keith re-emerged with a set of new compositions that combine their decades of experience in life and music production.