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my name is rohan and i make music and write
words primarily. i'm proudly from champaign, illinois,
and shamefully living in the suburbs of atlanta, georgia
currently. while i do like the actual city of
atlanta, and identify with it somewhat, ive
always felt strongly tied to illinois and
plan on moving to chicago as soon as possible.
for a long time i did not really feel compelled to release the things that i made. i made music for me, because it was fun and i needed some sort of release valve, and songs were often left in an unfinished state anyway because the polishing process was not interesting to me and i didn't care. but i had a friend that really believed in my ability and when they started this big collective/label thing, they wanted me to be a part of it. that made me feel the need to start putting things out, i sort of felt obligated to do that for them. now it's just a part of it for me i suppose. i still don't share the things i write that aren't tied to songs really, but i'm trying to change that.
when i started to release stuff i was using the name farboro, which is the name of the town the characters in the cartoon 'the problem solverz' live in. i was never that satisfied with the name, though, so when i came up with christopher rowin, my two names with swapped position and rohan spelled phonetically, which i liked more, i decided to start using it and another name i had, pdf ghost, instead. the things that i had put out as farboro being a very connected chunk of projects was a good excuse to commit to that. pretty loosely christopher rowin is used for more folk-aligned stuff, while pdf ghost is for avant-garde and electronic music. rock/punk based records sort of fit with either depending on the aesthetic, but it's all arbitrary and anything could be under any name. i put out an album with a bunch of unused or supplementary songs on it which belonged to both aliases so i combined them as christopher's ghost to use for it, and i'll continue to use it for similar projects. but if i'm ever able to come up with a punchy and satisfying mononym like 'beck', which feels appropriate for anything, all the other stuff will go away and i will only use that.
for a long time i did not really feel compelled to release the things that i made. i made music for me, because it was fun and i needed some sort of release valve, and songs were often left in an unfinished state anyway because the polishing process was not interesting to me and i didn't care. but i had a friend that really believed in my ability and when they started this big collective/label thing, they wanted me to be a part of it. that made me feel the need to start putting things out, i sort of felt obligated to do that for them. now it's just a part of it for me i suppose. i still don't share the things i write that aren't tied to songs really, but i'm trying to change that.
when i started to release stuff i was using the name farboro, which is the name of the town the characters in the cartoon 'the problem solverz' live in. i was never that satisfied with the name, though, so when i came up with christopher rowin, my two names with swapped position and rohan spelled phonetically, which i liked more, i decided to start using it and another name i had, pdf ghost, instead. the things that i had put out as farboro being a very connected chunk of projects was a good excuse to commit to that. pretty loosely christopher rowin is used for more folk-aligned stuff, while pdf ghost is for avant-garde and electronic music. rock/punk based records sort of fit with either depending on the aesthetic, but it's all arbitrary and anything could be under any name. i put out an album with a bunch of unused or supplementary songs on it which belonged to both aliases so i combined them as christopher's ghost to use for it, and i'll continue to use it for similar projects. but if i'm ever able to come up with a punchy and satisfying mononym like 'beck', which feels appropriate for anything, all the other stuff will go away and i will only use that.