The Atmospheric Mini-LP is here. It is an instrumental album spanning seven songs. It departs a collage of messy Americana and arrives in a format of alien, future pop. It is an opportunity to daydream without the clear parameters of the concept album. The album contains folk -fantasia and synth dirges, but the story that connects them is purposely unclear. A kind of choose your own adventure for the creative listener. Collaborative work with unknown collaborators.
The initial recordings took place over the last five years with additional overdubs in the months leading up to its release.
Melancholic Trails is a cinematic western-themed string sextet piece for two violins, viola, cello, contrabass, and banjo. I am currently working on a soundtrack for a dark western. This is a by-product of those sessions. The song's somber strings end in a This track didn't work well with its neighboring tracks, so it is getting its own release as a single. It is a piece that begins with a somber string Adagio. A lamentation for those lost to the ideology of westward expansion. It concludes in an awkward 12/8 dance. The pizzicato strings as nourishing raindrops on vast, undeveloped plains.
Lastly, I've put together a compilation album of instrumental work from the past titled Junk Drawer. It is a collection of twenty-seven songs. The stylistic experimentation ranges from solo guitar to full orchestral works. It's a mess, but I think it somehow forms a cohesive whole. There is a thru line that comes from sole authorship. Included are abandoned theme music, unused corporate music from the Great "Content Creator," a dance for two revolutionary pigs, teenage garage rock, music from made-up arcade games, dueling guitars trapped in tape loops, and saxophones that have lost the trail in America's vast canyons.
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