On April 25th, 2015, two good friends of mine - Bailey Meola and Sydney Schumacher - were killed by the Nepal Earthquake while trekking through the Langtang Valley in the Himalayas. I had known Bailey since we were 6 years old and in kindergarten together, and became friends with Sydney in high school. Their death was a heavy blow at a time when I had just moved to a new city and was struggling to find myself, both as an artist and a human being. In The Heart Of The Earth is a tribute to their memory.

I first met Robert Sadin later that year in what would turn out to completely alter the course of my creative journey. It was the first semester of my second year at the New School, and he was the professor of a class called Special Topics. With only a very vague idea of what that meant, I signed up on a whim not knowing that it would be far and away the most influential class I took the entire time I was in college - so much so, that I took it again every semester until I graduated. I was so struck by the depth of his knowledge that I started studying with him one-on-one the following year. Not having done my proper research in advance, it was only after we began private study that I realized he had produced albums by some of the artists that had had the biggest influence on my creative identity thus far. Lucky me!

I composed In The Heart Of The Earth over the course of roughly a year from mid-2016 to mid-2017, during which process Robert’s guidance proved to be invaluable. Studying with him taught me to nitpick at every aspect of my writing and forced me to get as much mileage as possible out of each idea. Once the composition was finished, I asked him about recording it and was ecstatic when he offered to produce the session. That December we traveled to Boston to record with an incredible group of musicians assembled and conducted by his friend Don Palma of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Due to a long list of logistical challenges exacerbated by the onset of COVID-19, I’ve been unable to release the recording until now, but the starts have aligned at last and I’m incredibly proud to present In The Heart Of The Earth on April 25th, 2021 - the 6 year anniversary of that tragic day in Nepal.

In The Heart Of The Earth

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Few things induce tunnel-vision like human loss. Revelries - Isak Gaines’ debut pair of releases with Inner Ocean - explores the tunnel from entrance to exit through the lens of a relationship that was doomed to fail from the onset. Airy vocal melodies draped over jagged sample collages, loose textural washes, and intricately layered drum programming lead the way through the selfish, confused entryway of Pt. I to an exit in Pt. II that is both more reflective and outward-looking.

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Few things induce tunnel-vision like human loss. Revelries - Isak Gaines’ debut pair of releases with Inner Ocean - explores the tunnel from entrance to exit through the lens of a relationship that was doomed to fail from the onset. Airy vocal melodies draped over jagged sample collages, loose textural washes, and intricately layered drum programming lead the way through the selfish, confused entryway of Pt. I to an exit in Pt. II that is both more reflective and outward-looking.

Part-producer, part-improviser, part-composer, and part-visual artist, Isak Gaines has a creative identity that isn’t easily categorized. Between densely-layered sample manipulations, intricate chamber arrangements, and multi-instrumental improvisations, his work focuses on experimentation in search of the point where they all intersect.

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