Under the moniker The Simple Carnival, the 38-year-old Delmont resident has self-released two albums recorded in his basement studio. He wrote all of the songs, sang most of the vocals, did his own mixing and mastering, and played all the instruments -- guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, flute and so on. He wanted the sound of a marimba, the wooden-keyed xylophone-like instrument popular with mariachi bands, but couldn't find one for sale. So he built one himself.