Belonging

Project manager by day, musician by night.

I've played guitar since I was seven or eight, first in classical lessons where I'd skip the assigned pieces for something more interesting, then in bands, then through a long stretch of demos recorded at home on whatever I had (an E-MU 0404 for a good while). The bands never quite held together, and by my late twenties I had more or less stopped.

What got me back was an Against the Clock episode with Tim Green. He was using kalimbas, electric guitars as pads, and synths in a way I hadn't heard before, and it opened me up to a side of electronic music that had nothing to do with what I was hearing on the radio. From there I found Bonobo, George FitzGerald, Rival Consoles, Nils Frahm, Max Cooper, Four Tet and many more. I released my first single, Strut, on my 30th birthday and kept going, one single at a time.

After making a bunch of singles I started wrestling with the idea of releasing an album (even though it's against the almighty Algorithm). Belonging, the first album, came together between 2022 and 2024 in the free hours around a job in IT and a small kid at home.

In 2025 I attended a workshop series called "Novi Šum" here in Split, where live electronic acts showed their setups and performances. This inspired me to start playing live, and in May 2026 I played live for the first time (with this project), at Cinema Beton, with guitar, pedalboard, a bunch of controllers and a Reaper setup I programmed myself.