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, i've
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. i was
gonna use it alongside another name, but i've
decided against that and will just be using christopher
rowin for everything.