We haven’t much in life, yet we have so much. It is strange how important the small things become. Letters to Kansas City is an ode to H Stewart’s hometown. The songs are written about Kansas City’s neighborhoods, their moods and memories according to H Stewart. The songs were made with a cheap Casio, a used microphone, and a laptop which houses odd programs for sound manipulations. Those things coupled with the memory of home H Stewart create a voiceless album drawing on how little and how much we have in life, and how important it is to be home.

That’s how Clinical Archives introduces Letters to Kansas City, by H Stewart. Music is not that different from photography. It isn’t the equipment that takes the picture, it’s you. You either have the eye or you don’t. Photographs taken from cameras built out of inexpensive, everyday objects can be staggeringly beautiful. They can also be awful. It all depends on the user.

In quite the same way a musical instrument does not need to be expensive, high tech, or expertly tuned. It only needs to be expertly played. This is why I think an LP of strictly Casio compositions is an important project. So while I’m not 100% sold on the results, I’ve listened to every note and think you ought to as well.