Giant Sunshine is an experimental project that I'm creating with my daughter, Britt. She has always had a melody in her head. Some of my favorite memories are of her walking through our home as a young child singing whatever melody was in her head at the time. I would occasionally allow her to skip school so we could work on new ideas in our home studio. As I mentioned in my bio, I've pretty much destroyed any chance of her having a "normal" life. It's not uncommon for her to leave new melody ideas on my voicemail when I'm unavailable. So, if you see a twenty-something girl standing in a corner somewhere singing into her iPhone, it's probably Britt.  

She forces me to think outside of the box. Britt and I are excited about sharing our sonic discoveries as we move our "Giant Sunshine" project from idea to completion. 

Thanks for listening!



Giant Sunshine

Giant Sunshine is an experimental project that I'm creating with my daughter, Britt. She has always had a melody in her head. Some of my favorite memories are of her walking through our home as a young child singing whatever melody was in her head at the time. I would occasionally allow her to skip school so we could work on new ideas in our home studio. As I mentioned in my bio, I've pretty much destroyed any chance of her having a "normal" life. It's not uncommon for her to leave new melody ideas on my voicemail when I'm unavailable. So, if you see a twenty-something girl standing in a corner somewhere singing into her iPhone, it's probably Britt.  

She forces me to think outside of the box. Britt and I are excited about sharing our sonic discoveries as we move our "Giant Sunshine" project from idea to completion. 

Thanks for listening!


Canvas

Michael Bernier~Chapman Stick, Guitar & Vocals
Ritchie DeCarlo~Drums
Kandy harris~Vocals

Lyrics:
pretend im you 
and you are me
between our different views
its all we'll ever see
declining other ways
spending all our days 
cycling through the game
but somethings not the same


the story ends and yet begins
we played the game yet no one wins
holding hands and walking through 
I thought I loved you but never knew your a stranger

stranger
stranger

somehow you traded me
for a man who cannot see
forgetting all that i was
I was supposed to be


but im still alive
exhausted still
climbing back 
to my  depleted will
i wonder how and why
I could be so dumb
the weakness that allowed 
you n i to become 


strangers
strangers



pretend im you 
and you are me
between our different views
its all we'll ever see
declining other ways
spending all our days 
cycling through the game
but somethings not the same


the story end and yet begins
we played the game yet no one wins
holding hands and walking through 
I thought I loved you and never knew your a stranger

stranger
stranger

somehow you traded me
for a man who cannot see
forgetting all I was supposed to be
now its time to set me free

im still alive
exhausted still
climbing back to my 
depleted will
i wonder how and why
I could be so dumb
the weakness that allowed 
for us to become 


strangers
strangers




"Strangers" (rough mix unmixed/unmastered)

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The Ambient Zone is a beautiful journey into ambient and electronica inspired by universal themes of calmness, purity, relaxation and enrichment where Weightless is coupled with some exclusive first releases and other blissfully ambient tracks from Just Music artists and alumni.

Created instinctively and intuitively by Marconi Union, Weightless has been claimed to have therapeutic properties in the way the track almost appears to have a heartbeat running through it which slows down very gently throughout the piece, encouraging a deep sense of relaxation in the body, It's use of specific rhythms, beep bass tones, frequencies and intervals induce an almost trance like state in the listener.

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Weightless (Ambient Transmission Vol. 2)

Weightless Part 1

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Marconi Union - Weightless

A Rapture by Stereo Alchemy lyrics based on poem by Thomas Carew. Track one on Stereo Alchemy's debut album 'God of Love'.

A Rapture

Tom Waits (on Jim Wilson): "Wilson, he's always playing with time. I heard a recording recently of crickets slowed way down. It sounds like a choir, it sounds like angel music. Something sparkling, celestial with full harmony and bass parts - you wouldn't believe it. It's like a sweeping chorus of heaven, and it's just slowed down, they didn't manipulate the tape at all. So I think when Wilson slows people down, it gives you a chance to watch them moving through space. And there's something to be said for slowing down the world."

Source: "Woyzeck to run at Freud Playhouse". Daily Bruin (USA), by Andrew Lee. December 3, 2002

Find more on the recording on this link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023815586

Tom Waits on Tom waits talking about this recording - http://gloriousnoise.com/2008/tom_waits_interviews_tom_waits

More on the recording - http://hearingvoices.com/transcript.php?fID=142

You can buy original recording here - http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Chorus-Crickets-Jim-Wilson/dp/1932192077?tag=viglink124132-20

Original recording from the author - http://www.constancedemby.com/godscricketchorus_f.html

And more: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/10/13/weekend-diversion-is-this-an-amazing-chorus-of-slowed-down-crickets/

Jim Wilson | God's Chorus of Crickets | crickets audio recording slowed way down

Beyond The Night Winds Pt 1 - Dreamwinds (Guardian of the Forest) & shanifa28

Vapah - Juggular (DNB)

Ambient/Space piece to relax, meditate, or journey with. Headphones or stereo sound system recommended. Small speakers discouraged.

Created with an ASM Hysdrasynth using live controlled filter sweeps, along with a modulated, Jupiter 8 drone combined with Shimmerverb, mixed with Ableton Live using Eventide Reverb effects processing for both tracks.

Rise EP

Rise

Born into, surrounded, by and steeped in daily music, I forever have a song in my mind. Having been brought up in a home filled with music, I decided early on that I would create sounds that could fill the minds of others.

Originally influenced by Wendy Carlos and Tangerine Dream as a child, I became fascinated with the sweeping sounds of electronic music. As I grew older, I was exposed to synthesis in music during the New Wave era, and the likes of Vangelis, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, and Robert Fripp shaped my love of deep ambient sounds and sonic textures. I was soon exposed to Michael Sterns, Robert Rich and other Space Music composers, who also fostered my love for deep soundscapes.

Rise

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