Musician Chris Koza continues his exploration of his ambitious project–writing and recording four albums in each of the four seasons this year, under the band name Rogue Valley–with an essay to coincide with the release of the “summer album,” “The Bookseller’s House.”
To read the first installment in this series, “Modern Muse,” which delves into the spring album, “Crater Lake,” click here.
Listen: Rogue Valley – “The Color Wheel”
Listen: Careful – “I Shot An Apple Off Her Head”
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God—or some other teetering confluence—had given me a month. The spate of jobs I had collected since moving to the city: infrequent chances to build animatronic sculptures with a Bushwick artist; a student in Canarsie needing algebra help; a freelance job where I mindlessly rearranged sentences to trick Google into seeing relevance in the profoundly irrelevant; and a low-key, often-till-early-AM box office job I lucked into—these were not enough, and the label would pay my November rent, while I each day set up and broke down a studio entirely in my girlfriend’s closet, yards away from what we were later told is the loudest neighborhood in Manhattan.
