I make songs to notice things twice.

I am Keman: a songwriter, music producer, lyricist, and writer interested in the small distance between what people say and what they mean.

I make quiet songs, warm beats, and sentences that sometimes become one or the other. I like recordings where you can hear the room. I like lyrics that leave the door open. I believe the best creative tools are attention, patience, and one friend willing to say the second verse is too long.

What keeps returning

Memory. City light. Family kitchens. The comedy of being a person in public. The strange things we keep after a relationship ends. The way a melody can make an ordinary sentence tell the truth.

This website is where those interests share a shelf. Finished work lives beside fragments, production notes, observations, and lyrics still waiting for music.