Welcome
to Quarter Black

Xavier here. I was living on my buddy's couch during a good chunk of the pandemic. Beyond what was happening in the world around me, many personal issues were coming to a head. At the time, I felt awful pretty much constantly and nothing could calm me down, at least not for long. One morning, I picked up my guitar to practice, hoping it would calm my nerves a bit. Mind you, at this point, I was a BEGINNER. Chords were still hard for me. Instead of playing a particular song, I just strummed chords I knew. Before long, I noticed a particular progression I liked and began humming a melody. After that, another one came. Then another one. When my concentration finally broke, it was dark outside. Having never written a song before, I was left with three. I didn't think to record anything back then, I just played the songs ad nauseam each day so that I wouldn't forget, making little tweaks gradually. Over the coming year, I developed these three ideas into the songs Stranger, Why Must I Be Alone, and Zero. More ideas came during this period and by November 2022 I had an album done. The next logical step was to form a band and play them live. That brings us to today. If there is anything to take away from our music, it's this. At some point or another, we all feel alone, hopeless, like life is against us. We have a choice to acknowledge that feeling and release it, or hold onto it and let it drown us. This music is us releasing it (literally). And I intend to keep doing so. If hearing one of my songs is a release for you, then I suppose neither of us is alone.