What a nice surprise this morning! Beautiful!

The sounds on Texture & Light’s new EP, “Eat Magic” bring listeners on a fuzzy, deep, slow motion journey across a dance floor, while the themes lead you deep within yourself. If this sounds heavy, it is - but it’s also light. There’s plenty of space between the big ideas for dancing or navel gazing. The songs on Eat Magic were performed live as they were being written, and they slowly evolved and grew in front of many different people before they were completed. Far from being created in a vacuum, they are living, breathing parts of Trevor’s 2017 life experience - and maybe yours too.

The lead off track, ‘Leaning In’ is a synth laden, sub touching, indie dance track with lyrics that are loosely inspired by Pema Chodron's philosophy of "leaning in to the sharp points” in times of difficulty. The acid line that shows up at the halfway point however, may encourage you to dance your cares away instead. 

‘Merlin’ is a deep ambient techno track that features twinkling bell synth sounds, a lead line played on a dulcimer, smooth sub drops, and a composite of three ancient poems from three different centuries. It wouldn’t be out of place on a new Four Tet album. 

‘Leave The City’ is the grittiest of the bunch - the drums and baseline head straight for the jugular as the song slowly unfolds into brighter synth sounds and lofty ideas about leaving the city behind - A favourite writing topic of Trevor’s. 

Closing the journey is ‘Infinite Push’, a short little dreamy ambient piece that offers to take you to inner space or outer space depending on your willingness to let go.

Released January 26, 2018
Written, performed, produced by Trevor Refix Mervyn
Mastered by Pheek
Ancient Poetry on 'Merlin' voiced by Joel Benson

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Eat Magic EP

A synth laden, sub touching, indie dance track with lyrics that are loosely inspired by Pema Chodron's philosophy of "leaning in to the sharp points” in times of difficulty. The acid line that shows up at the halfway point however, may encourage you to dance your cares away instead.

Forthcoming on "Texture & Light - Eat Magic EP"
To be released February 2018
Mastered by Pheek
Written, performed, produced by Trevor Refix Mervyn

Leaning In (Single)

Leaning In

A short little dreamy ambient piece that offers to take you to inner space or outer space depending on your willingness to let go.

Released January 26, 2018
Written, performed, produced by Trevor Refix Mervyn
Mastered by Pheek

2017 Instrumentals and Ambients

Infinite Push

It’s time to remember now, that you my dear one, were born worthy. I know you have been taught to search for this worth, taught to find ways to prove your value, find ways to be so that you are given, but dearest love, this was an accident…a teaching that was instilled in us, by those lost to their beauty and given worth as well.

S03 LIVEAWAKE

S03 REMEMBERING YOUR WORTH

A deep ambient techno track that features twinkling bell synth sounds, a lead line played on a dulcimer, smooth sub drops, and a composite of three ancient poems from three different centuries. It wouldn’t be out of place on a new Four Tet album. 

Released February 2018
Written, performed, produced by Trevor Refix Mervyn
Ancient Poetry voiced by Joel Benson
Mastered by Pheek

Merlin

A gritty slow-mo track with drums and a baseline that head straight for the jugular as the song slowly unfolds into brighter synth sounds and lofty ideas about leaving the city behind - A favourite writing topic of Trevor’s.

Released January 26, 2018
Written, performed, produced by Trevor Refix Mervyn
Mastered by Pheek

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Leave The City

Glasgow based duo audiodeluxe add an oldschool beat and their indie trip hop vibe to Infinite Push, giving the whole piece a nice 90's electronica feel. Availabe as a bonus track when you purchase Eat Magic through Bandcamp https://textureandlight.bandcamp.com/album/eat-magic

Hear more audiodeluxe here: audiodeluxe.bandcamp.com

Eat Magic

Infinite Push (audiodeluxe remix)

Infinite Push (Audiodeluxe Mix // Free DL)

Taken from 'Crema' by Logan Takahashi out October 5, 2018.

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Crema

Logan Takahashi - Crema

A mix of some of the downtempo tracks that give me listening pleasure that I am currently enjoying.  Some mellow, wobbly, bass heavy tunes to wake up to... or share with that special someone.

Peas n Rice
Riddim

Broken Down Tempo (Riddim Mix)

Improvisation on 3 x Moog Mother 32s

No midi, all notes played in live via the small keyboard, with some moments of onboard sequencing.

Recorded in live unedited, just a small amount of reverb added.

Three Mothers 1

Young And Pretty

A nice mellow, warm n fuzzy feeling kinda bass track.
Great vocal on this one, paired with subby goodness.

Peas n Rice
Riddim

Illusions

cover art: Miss White Spider Arts
Lyrics:
Floating like a little cloud
You're filling up, yet you're falling down.
Changing form and changing mind
It wipes you out but leaves you so inspired.
That you want to fly and leave a path of love.

So many ways to reach the stars
Imagine that our wings can go that far,
that you want to fly and leave a path of love.

So many ways to reach the stars
Imagine that our wings can go that far
that you want to fly straight through the stars

Inspired by a recent radio show by Anirvan Deva
https://soundcloud.com/anirvandeva
Pod Cast: Beneath the Surface

Butterfly

Through The Stars

‘Compassion Pit’ is the lead single from the 3rd Texture & Light LP 'Vulture Medicine', and it perfectly embodies what the music of Texture & Light stands for - it is both heavy and light, fit for dancing and for daydreaming. 

Ocean waves give way to weird and wonderful melodic synth lines and analog drum machine beats that invite the listener’s body to sway like care-free seaweed in the tide, while the lyrics paint a story of depth, feeling, pain, and hope. Hazy guitar lines round out the sonic spectrum, providing an anchor in this sea of electronic dreams. 

Taken from the full length album 'Vulture Medicine', to be released November 20th 2020 via Introversion Records.

Vulture Medicine

Compassion Pit

The  surf-y summer time vibe of Web Surfing is run through the T&L remix blender, coming out with a slinky bassline, crunchy industrial drums, and big fuzzy guitars while maintaining the pop structure and "light on your feet" feel of the original.

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Earl Donald - Web Surfing (Texture & Light Remix)

Robert E. Livingood is a multi-media artist, DJ, and producer. His DJ
sets span the territories of new wave, synth, dark disco, minimal, and
post-punk. As a producer, he uses hardware synths as a means to dialog with the forces of wild nature. This process results in experimental dance tracks and lo-fi ambient pieces enveloped in smokey atmospheric layers of sound. Robert has released music on Emerald & Doreen, Divination & Strategy, The Black Lodge, and Ombra INTL. Originally from the late 70s early 80s punk scene in Detroit, Robert now resides in the mountains of western Canada where he studies grizzly bears and organizes cultural events in the thriving art scene of Nelson, British Columbia.

| Episode 063 | Robert E. Livingood

Texture & Light was created by Trevor Mervyn as a way to explore live instrumentation, synthesis, field recordings, and deep themes, while striking a balance between the dance floor and headphone day-dreaming. 

With an open mind, Trevor allows his unique brand of electronic music to lead him, not limiting the creative process to stay inside a genre or follow an exact formula. Texture & Light’s sound represents the music that Trevor was born to make, and it continues to evolve over space and time as he is carved by experience, joy, sadness, and wonder.

Texture & Light live shows use synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, loopers, voice, and guitar to bring listeners on a fuzzy, deep, slow motion journey to the stars, and deep within themselves.

Trevor’s musical releases have been charted by campus radio stations across Canada, reaching the National Earshot! Electronic chart, the Canadian iTunes Electronic chart, and topping the CBC R3-30.

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