Stories About Music

story about music #5 My Friend Tyler I met my friend Tyler in the autumn of 2010 after we moved into the same dorm room. He was already a musician by then, making pop music that mixed in a variety of other genres: indie rock, world beat, classical, jazz, shoegaze, ambient-anything was up for grabs, really. But those things have never been the central focus of the music Tyler makes under the name Cloud. At its core, Cloud is a project about friendship, ego death, and one persons' attempts to hold onto the memories that shape him. Episode 6 begins with a call I made to Tyler in the weeks before his first vinyl release (on a real record label!) only to find out he wasn't as excited as I'd thought he would be. This is a story about my friend Tyler and me.