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Then with a blink the spell was broken...

About Me


Some of my favourite friends:

solitude

Marie Neige - Voix passionnée et chanson pleine d’émotion mijotant.
app 1901 - Beautifully poised and full of shadow and mystery. Bewitching, beguiling.

music of the spheres

Apjiw - Optimistic melodies on a darker canvas that resonates deeper subconsious levels.
area - Ethereal electronic tones float in an azure sky as gentle, heavenly breezes sooth the troubled mind.
Adam Bowden - Pulsating, spacey, orchestrated, uplifting, mind-expanding themes that loop and build in an irresistible meditative rhythm.
Neu Gestalt - Multiple layers laid down in a syncopated groove.
Cloudbase 301 - Like a snowflake or Mandelbrot set--each piece branching effortlessly into multiple sonic universes in a continuous, unbroken stream of sound.
Dead Beat Project - Reflective, melancholic music with an uplifting trip-hop groove.
Aaron Marshall - Dark, complex and nuanced, yet minimalist enough to provide lots of empty space for the listener’s imagination to roam.

poetry

Benji Lee - Just a plug for myself...my piano page...my foundation.
Hidekazu Wakabayashi - Elegant, reflective, jazz-influenced piano with lots of internal space. Like falling snow.
stillness3 - Honest, stripped-down jazz with subtle depth and emotion.
Bruno Sanfilippo - Delicate ambient soundscapes that whisper to the soul; soft piano that connects effortlessly with the subconscious.
sunlight dancing on water

Pascow - Joyful guitar compositions that loop and drift effortlessly.
RF - Guitar/electronic/vocal arrangements that drift in a gentle, sweet groove of peaceful repose.
At Dead Horse Point Gentle, reflective guitar. Peaceful and calming.
eerie days - Dreamy floating songs sung by an angel.
The dead sea - Waves of sound lapping on a beach, crashing on a reef, evoking a beauty as deep as the ocean.
tesis - Resonant, delicate, joyous music that washes across the senses.

inner space

Igneous Flame - Hanging, pulsating and breathing like a living organism, beautifully sculptured tones resonate through multiple dimensions of darkness and light.
peter james - Delicate melodic islands in a sea of subliminal, subtonal sound, sometimes light, sometimes dark, always consciousness altering.
Building the cathedral - Floats and resonates in a dreamy landscape.
Float Method - Resonates and vibrates with a cosmic harmonic. Eerie and majestic.

the mind in the cave

O C O S I - Dark, experimental, richly textured soundscapes with a primeval, organic quality.
BURMA PROJECT - Dark, brooding sublime compositions with subtle textual transitions.
GP~00 - Dark, brooding soundscape overlain with delicate, spacey guitar melodies.
Phaenon - Haunting soundscape full of dark energy and dark matter.

a glimpse at the soul

Inferious - Post-apocalyptic abstract soundscape, alternating between dark nihilism and carefree hope.
The Calendar Key Project - Mysterious, plaintive, original, and very beautiful songwriting.
Misera Cerdo - Melancholic classical piano melodies played against an abstract backdrop of rhythm and sound.
nine hopeless skies - Fragile et délicate, mais beaucoup de force. Comme une voix de la nuit, de la solitude, de l’électricité, de la pensée.
shea the man stays up late - transcendental musical journeys full of unusual tonal colour and texture.
The Honey Sacrifice - Takes you all the way from evening cocktails to the dark night of the soul and back again.
Unowis - Rich and complex yet minimalist character, with an open, abstract form that makes lots of connections. Somehow different each listen.
sudan - Waves of calm glowing with dark iridescence.

shaman

S P R I N G - Dark, menacing and a little psychedelic, with primeval beats, mazy guitar and reptilian vocals. Magical!
shanyio - Haunting and beautiful with lots of inner space.
Liquid Stranger - Limbic bass, earthy rhythms and liquid sounds.
Building castles out of matchsticks - Altered reality; mystical journey.
Gynorg - Dark, spacious, immersive.
elektronarkoz - Basse et rythme viscéral ; beaucoup de texture sous-tonale.
ecut - A master of rhythm and texture, taking the listener on a shamanistic, but distinctly urban, journey.

the terifying vastness of space

Mandible Chatter - Simmering and mysterious.
Sektionine - Wonderfully coordinated textures and tones. The ghost in the machine. The soul of the machine?

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/6/2007
Band Members:

j -1 is very proud to announce the release of his new album

Fire, water, earth and air combine emotion and serenity to draw the listener into a state of inner repose.


Available now from andtheyfell recordings
Influences: Too many to mention.
Sounds Like: Layers of sound. Resonance. Gentle thematic progression. Reflective. Immersive...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Anatomy of a song, part IV

An update is long overdue but this project has stalled a little. I am currently allowing the piece to evolve in my subconscious! Like most things I do, I'm often a little slow but I do persevere, and ...
Posted by j - 1 on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:33:00 PST

Anatomy of a song, part III

Or "granite" as I'm now calling it. First, I must say I am not a geologist, so apologies to any geologists who might read this diary and find my musings too whimsical. To me, a piece of granite is lik...
Posted by j - 1 on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:07:00 PST

Anatomy of a song, part II

I played around with my initial sketch on the piano, but I couldn't find a satisfactory development. Sometimes it comes; sometimes it doesn't. I thought, however, that the basic theme might work in a ...
Posted by j - 1 on Tue, 27 May 2008 01:40:00 PST

Anatomy of a song, part I

Anatomy of a song Art, for me, is all about the end product. And yet I'm often curious about how a piece of music has been put together, particularly ambient-type material, which at its best is an as...
Posted by j - 1 on Sun, 18 May 2008 08:55:00 PST

Artistic Personality

This might be a trite and overly simplistic observation, but it seems to me that artistic success, whether commercial or critical, is highly dependent on a quality I would refer to as artistic person...
Posted by j - 1 on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:11:00 PST

Strangers

For most of our evolutionary history, we lived in relatively small bands of people where everyone knew each other. All our day was spent among people with whom we had some sort of relationship. If we ...
Posted by j - 1 on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 05:30:00 PST

01 Transcendence

On transcendence I believe that transcendence is a fundamental human trait or ability. The way in which it is sought or expressed, or even what it means, may vary from person to person, but I believe...
Posted by j - 1 on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:10:00 PST