When life took a turn in 2019, 40-year-old Kiwi builder and designer Geoff Kunac picked up a guitar. Six months later, he had nearly enough songs for a whole album.
I think for lack of anything better to do more than anything else, Geoff says. It became my cathartic diary or voice, as I was silently watching my life simultaneously fall apart around me.

Geoff of Martinborough didnt come from a background of music. Teenage memories of messing around on the familys piano, dropping out of guitar lessons at school, and listening to his older sisters CDs and mixed tapes were the extent of his music experience. But a messy break up was the bump in the road that urged him to dust off his mums old $200 guitar as a way to process the darker days.
Chords or melodies would just flow out onto the guitar whenever they felt like it I didnt have much control over it. I quickly learned to push record on my phone to capture the moment or Id wake up t