Life is just a unit of small cycles comprised into a long span of time. Every spark must eventually die in some way or another, and that's part of what makes life beautiful, that the only certain thing is that it will end, so you might as well make the most of it.

The last 2 years have been kind of a blur. I won't get into specifics of what has happened in my life, but so much has been going on that it all starts mixing up in my mind. A lot of good, a lot of bad as well, and it has all been documented through the Ghost Sloth discography, as each record and its production has been tied to a specific emotion which was prevalent in my mind in that moment.

LP1 is a record about being hopeless and angry, about not fitting in and feeling a prisoner of the situation. LP2 is about everything falling to pieces while trying to maintain a sense of optimism. LP3 is the calm after the storm.

Whatever situation haunted me all throughout 2021, when both LP1 and LP2 where recorded, had calmed down and, eventually, almost disappeared throughout 2022. Whatever light gleamed at the end of the tunnel on LP2 had finally come and things were on a relative calm, at last.

I hadn't even thought about making another GS record after LP2 finished recording. GS is a project firmly based on catharsis expressed through improvisation. If I'm not in a feeling that allows me to express myself in that way, then nothing GS will happen, I could certainly force it but then its not worth it as its not a sincere reflection of myself.

LP3 wasn't planned for most of the year. LP2 had burned me out and I had started writing demos for another project before it had even released. I had recorded some non-record songs after LP2 was done and I planned to release them as an EP and as the last GS thing, but we decided that it wouldn't be a proper send off.

The music I had been writing is very different from anything GS, is all part of a project centered around folk and country, a lot more relaxed touching on looser topics about life, a reflection of my state at the moment where I could finally relax a bit. One October afternoon, thought, the fact about how that calm is gonna end sooner or later, whether I like it or not, overcame me.

LP3 is not about anger or hope, is about how everything is doomed by the fact that it will end at some point. That's what makes life. If everything was always fun and rainbows then that would have no meaning. Whatever calm I had throughout 2022 is going to die, either for good or for bad, so why not try to smile and have fun with what I can now? Living month to month is getting harder, the economy seems to be falling into another crash and capitalism seems to be on the breach of destroying our lives yet again in a gigantic crash, so why not try to have some laughs and let energy loose before shit hits the fan again.

This record was all done in an afternoon, very much like how LP1 happened. I wasn't predisposed to record anything at that moment, I just had to let all the emotion out somehow, and my guitar seemed to be the best way to do so. The only thing done to it after the fact was bare mastering on January 2023.

Ghost Sloth will go on hiatus from now on, until I don't know when. There may be an EP with loose tracks recorded on the side of the trilogy of LPs and my dream of doing a tape fun of any of these may (fingers crossed) finally happen, but there's no more music planned for now.

I can't stay on a set path of work for long, not in music at least. I become very constantly fascinated with different genres and forms of making music and I switch constantly between projects, reason why my modus operandi used to be writing a bunch of songs for a project, releasing several EPs or records during a single year and moving on to whatever was next. Ghost Sloth is the only project that has taken several years of my life without radically changing the course of action, reason why, even thought I love making music for it, I have become a tad jaded.

This isn't to say that Ghost Sloth is dead, but I wanna take some time to develop the other ideas that I have gathered this past couple of years, and to see Ghost Sloth from a distance so I can think of a way of switching things up while staying true to the band in the future. There may be a LP4, there may not, but we will never know until it happens.

LP3 finishes the cycle of what my life has been this past couple of years. I look back at all that has been part of Ghost Sloth very fondly and with a lot of pride in what we achieved with so little. I got to know some amazing people and I learned a lot about music and about myself.

I'll still be around with other projects so even if Ghost Sloth is going dormant for a while, I'm not.

Until next time, folks.