Range & The Side Quests

Range & The Side Quests is Range's side project for nerdy/geeky music -- Music to DnD By, video game music, music about Star Wars, and any other nerdy topic that strikes his fancy. --- Range turns decades of poetry, political rage, gallows humor, and late-night brain-static into songs that cut across genre without asking permission. His work moves from anti-war protest songs and current-event commentary to blues, rock, country, folk, hip-hop, synth-pop, industrial, reggae, and whatever hybrid form the song demands. Some tracks are strange. Some are bluntly political. Some are funny in the way a cracked windshield is funny. Others are personal, bitter, wounded, or unexpectedly tender. Range’s songs often come from lived frustration: empire rot, surveillance, media decay, class contempt, spiritual exhaustion, and the weird private thoughts people usually sand down before saying out loud. The result is music that can sound like a protest sign, a barroom confession, a bad joke told at the end of the world, or an old poem dragged into the present and wired to a beat. This is music for people who still notice the fire, still laugh at the absurdity, and still want the song to say something. Range writes his songs and records the vocals, uses Suno to compose the music, and does final edits in software such as Sound Forge and MMM DAW, often with the help of Athena the Kitty or her brother Purrseus cradled in one arm.