I think it might be that I have a lot more solo recordings to choose from and opportunities to record when I'm compiling a solo album.
I've done collaboration in-person and over the internet, and they're two very disparate animals. Online is a lot more difficult imo as it takes more thought to complement an already-developed side or to lay down the building blocks for them to jump off of. Collaborating in person is tops for me, especially when you're working with people that are willing to improvise whose musical language you can understand. The give and take, the way that an idea can catch fire without warning and fizzle out just as quickly, when you and the person/people you're collaborating with are in line enough that you don't feel like you're in control anymore, the ease in it now that you have help as well as the challenges in keeping up with them, that's what I really love about collaboration. I feel like the relationship in WISSK has caused us to create a new kind of singular beast with flavours that can't be replicated.
Solo work is very rewarding as well. I have control over everything, but I'd say that it's difficult to keep the music and ideas as organic as with collaboration. I think you could say that my solo work is the most refined or matured of my projects.
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