Open Sky Creative is a project started by Paul Christenson in 2007. He is a writer, producer, and keyboardist influenced by the progressive rock of the 70s and electronic music that came to center stage in the early 80s and has been writing and recording music since 1987. 
"I have always been captivated by the mystery of music as long as I can remember. Why do sounds effect us the way they do? Why do we associate air vibration with emotion? How is it that the difference between joy and dispair can be a simple half-step in pitch?

I am formally trained as a visual artist and my approach to music always has that visual counterpart. I will always perceive myself as a painter of sound."

Moving Castles has been producing glorious power pop since 2011's acclaimed Twin Daggers EP, which scored the band much critical attention and landed their music in major television shows such as New Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Shameless and others based on the strength of songs such as "Warhol" and "Heroin". Their latest offering, 2015's The Want EP, consisting of four songs that will be on the band's first full-length album due out later this year, finds Moving Castles moving further toward the spirit of their vintage power-pop and punk influences The Clash, Bowie, XTC, Cheap Trick and ELO while still managing to remain lyrically self-aware and sonically modern.

Recorded in 2014 at home and in various living rooms and bedrooms across Texas, The Want EP's sound has a surprising level of sophistication and polish for its non-existent budget and DIY production. Songwriter John H weaves tales of quarter-life crisis that harbor all of the requisite downer feelings of the mid-20's: jealousy, disillusionment, excess and existential dread over a bed of crunchy indie rock guitars and utterly unshakeable hooks. The demo for the title track “The Want” was featured in the 2014 film Afternoon Delight.

Fascinated with all things musical from an early age, I began playing drums at the age of 4 and the piano at the age of 6. 

Brought up in a religious family my first practical performance experience was playing gospel music at home, church and on the road. I also played in rock bands as a teenager. As a young adult I put aside my practice of religion but never gave up on my love of Xtian music. 

In 1990 at the tender age of 26 I released my first private album, "Conventional Wisdom" and since then I have recorded 20 private albums, always around Xmas time and always giving away copies as presents. 

All my original recordings are available for free download if you get bored.If you want to leave me feedback please drop a line to millerman31564@msn.com. 

Peace to all and thanks for dropping by!! MM


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Instrumentalist for Doom band Grimorte, and atmospheric black metal band Archierophant. 



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