beautiful track! beautiful sound and musical flow!

Lush aural recording and layers of sound.  Can truly lose myself in the world you created.

Featured on Kalamine Records' Complilation "Inside / Beside 2":
https://kalaminerecords.bandcamp.com/album/inside-beside-2-2

This track started on a transatlantic flight from Germany to Canada. I’ve been chipping away at it for some time now. Lots of ideas explored. There were a number of moments of serious overwhelm where I was close to throwing the towel in. The project quickly got very dense and took some effort work with. Without losing anything I think I’ve managed to do a proper job of it.   … I’m calling the track Mind Monkey as a dedication to all the distractions that kept me from completing it sooner :)

Mind Monkey

My goal is to create sonic landscapes that capture the listener and take them to unknown places while building and maintain a secondary (musical) world to keep them immersed and actively engaged within it. Music should be inherently enjoyable to listen to, yet provide enough tension to keep it interesting enough for active listening. I also try to tell an aural story or narrative that blends Electronic Music’s past with its present.

By using real-world environmental samples, I seek to anchor the listener to something that is familiar and immersive. Curiosity compels a deeper level of listening which helps develop, build and sustain the secondary world.

My stronger influences are 70s and 80s electronic and progressive musicians such as Brian Eno, Vangelis, Edger Froese, Klaus Schultze, David Sylvian, Holger Czukay, Popol Vuh and Pink Floyd, as well as more recent artists such as The Orb, Aphex Twin, Future Sound of London, Mathias Grassow, Steven Wilson, Bass Communion, Explosions in the Sky and Godspeed You! Black Emperor. There are unabashed references and homages to these artists and (many more) which is consistent with the post-rock approach to modern music.

I grew up in a home where music was loved and the radio was always on, which gave me early exposure to a variety of genres including jazz, classical, contemporary, pop and rock. Playing musical instruments throughout my early and middle-school years, allowed me to became proficient in several woodwind instruments, the electric bass and manipulation of reel-to-reel tape recordings. The exploration in creating experimental tape effects had a large impact on my current musical expression.

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