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The time feels ripe for this tune, so here is a teaser to show you guys what I'm working on for the next album.

Guitar contributions by Steven Polendey. Everything else is me.
Graphic from the painting "Shakti" by Randal Roberts.

May your third ear take flight on shiny silver wings.

Lyrics:

Find me in the spaces
Between the stars above
Ever since I saw the light
I've been starving for the love

I've gone beyond all measure
Always tightening my grasp
It only makes the treasure
Slip more quickly through the cracks

So I'll take this opportunity, while it's running through me
To commit this feeling to rhyme
Apprehension of eternity has this funny tendency
To fade with the passage of time

While I watch the world in motion
From my solitary throne
I'll recount my many blessings
Just to know I'm not alone

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Gratuitous Grace III (As the Bird Flies)

Here is one of the tracks from my new album, Empathic Circuitry, available for free at http://erothyme.bandcamp.com

I made it in Oregon this April on Bicycle Day when I was locked in a studio overnight, alone with a piano, some microphones, my laptop, and some monitors I can't afford. Had a lot of fun reaching inside that instrument and playing with the strings. Made a lot of the percussion by tapping on the wooden casing, too.

I hope it tickles your Third Ear.

Transients

The latest chapter of my work with the Desert Dwellers: "Nomadic Ecstatic Vol.1" is out now on Black Swan Sounds and available now on their Bandcamp page along with remixes by Kaleidoscope, Banco de Gaia, Jef Stott, and Chaos Control, with more on the way!

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Desert Dwellers - Wandering Sadhu (Drumspyder Remix)

This is the second installment of a little experiment I like to do from time to time. I call it the "Mother's Mashup" series which consists of songs that curiously go together in very uncanny ways. Most of the time a pitch drop here and a speed adjustment there will be all it takes to show that we are all singing the same song. ;)

This little collection of music from other artists that has inspired me recently and If you enjoy any of it, please buy it from the artists.

I begin with Jim James' first track on his solo release called "State Of The Art (A.E.I.O.U)" and mix that with "Dye" off Tycho's latest album "Awake" which is a blast to drive to btw.

Next we have Tor's "Glass and Stone" from his album "Drum Therapy" mixed with James Blake's "Retrograde". No bedroom is complete without James, take my word for it. 

Then we move into a song off my favorite album of 2012, "When Can" by producers Kettel and Secede. Yes, Kettel made it on my last mashup too. The song is "Ringvanes" and is exactly what I'm all about, mystery forest music. This track is complemented with the beat wizardry of Shigeto with his song "Detroit part 1".

The we take a trip back a decade to whom i consider an unsung electronic hero: Cornelius. This japanese producer is incredible and was very influential to me back in the day. He appears here with his awesome watery guitar track "Drop" mixed with one of the coolest hooks I've heard in a while by Ninja Tune's Matrixxman. The song is called "Enter Me"

Finally we get to an awesome energetic track by Machinedrum called "aeolia" mixed with "85-bit" by who could be the greatest unknown producer around: Woob. "85-bit" is off his album "Repurpose" is a musical journey everyone should take at some point. To me, one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever.   

Hopefully this is just in time for your long summer drives...

Mother's Mashup 2

From the album "Ecliptic Visions"
Desert Trax, 2013

∞ Featuring words by Shawna Pelton ∞

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Shift

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDd_g-aLLE

Some synchronicity in my music creation this 4th of july Independence day. I turned on my computer to create something new... And i saw this unfinished beat Pow Wow in the archives.  In this track I took some samples of the Stoney Park Singers Pow-wow.. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvENtk-QuJg 
)As I went into creation mode.. and the beat came forward more and more.. It hit me that I was in communion with the Shaman/Native American Culture.. then I asked my self.. "Independence for who?" 

I love how the universe works.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carina-kolodny/this-is-not-your-independence-day_b_5552640.html

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSDd_g-aLLE

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Pow Wow (Free Download)

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Closer

Lay By

Little People is the moniker of UK based downtempo electronic musician Laurent Clerc… He returns with his second full length album - We Are But Hunks Of Wood - a whole 6 years after his first album (Mickey Mouse Operation) was released on Illicit recordings. Whilst his debut - an accomplished ode to late 90's instrumental hip hop - has unexpectedly gone on to be in the top 30 selling album downloads on iTunes in the electronic genre in the US for the last 2 years, he is still all but unknown to most tastemakers and influential blogs shaping today's electronic music scene. Having followed an unconventional route to success - thanks to in no small part to Pandora radio generating him huge amounts of exposure - he seemingly exists outside the normal channels used to promote artists. We sense this is all about to change…

'We are But Hunks of Wood' is a sonic leap forward for LIttle People (that's the least you can expect after a 6 year hiatus between albums!) which should help establish himself as key proponent of the downtempo electronic music scene. Part beats, bleeps and real live instrumentation, this new record maybe falls in a place where Bonobo and Anders Trentemoller would hypothetically meet. Having initially come from the world of instrumental hip hop where tracks are often more akin to just sketches or interesting ideas, Laurent Clerc's pieces are fully fledged songs whose arrangements create a sense of mood and movement, effortlessly going from nuanced electronic patterns to soaring string arrangements over the course of the journey. This is no beat tape.

There are many reasons why it has taken him so long to release his follow up record - like nearly turning his back on making music and becoming the father of a set of twins… But the main reason was that he felt he had to reinvent his work methodology and write and record his tracks from the ground up. He saw sampling as tantamount to taking another man's 2 bars of inspiration and passing it off as your own. The story of the samplist making the jump to creating his own material is not new… but it isn't always a successful one. Laurent took enough time to make sure that leap was taken with aplomb.

We Are but Hunks of Wood

Eminence Grise

Electrickery

North America:
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fall-over-single/id608488421
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BJW6O5I

UK:
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fall-over-ep/id601229089
Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BE1Q9J0

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2ank9CdDXrW2pDljadZIKe


Thank you for purchasing, streaming and sharing these songs with your friends. 

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Before I Ever Met You (SOHN RMX)

Select tracks from the initial lineup for Gratifly Music and Arts Festival in Westminster, SC 
(July 25-28th, 2013)
http://tickets.theuntz.com/events/gratifly-music-and-arts-festival

Phutureprimative - Enemy (feat Jullian Ann)

Happy Fathers Day  

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Banks - In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel Cover)

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Phutureprimative - Enemy (feat Jullian Ann)

Gratifly Festival

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