I have more to add but, I hope more are passed along. I hope others out there can keep this section growing because Paco made music obsessively. In stages, not always but in large chunks and with extreme veracity when he did. And I have very little of it.

There are many things about this project I believe would make him laugh rawkusly. Not the least of which is me referring to his audio work as music. While he emphatically beheld it as such, I spent much of our friendship disagreeing as strongly. But I never told him it was bad because, frankly, it’s awesome. Regrettably, I never told him that either except on rare occasion. And only when he’d finally acquiesce to play me something structured with distinguishable rhythms at least, if not harmonies as well would I give into the gushing otherwise withheld. Of course upon such exaltation he’d command the rest of whatever car ride, with whatever noise experiment, renewing my resolve to never again compliment his unequalled explorations into sound.

This first audio track on your left, though…it’s simple. Just his voice. It is the second to last voicemail he ever left me. We loved They Might Be Giants, and we loved to sing them together. It’s haunting though that the last time I ever heard his voice ring out their words, was with the lyrics to “Dead”.