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In the Shadow of the Mountain

1. In the Shadow of the Mountain

2. Thaw

3. Grand Canyon

 

This three-song EP is being released in anticipation of my upcoming full-length album, called You are a secret, and you must never tell it. Tracks one and two also appear on the album. Track three is a cover of a song by The Magnetic Fields.

"In the Shadow of the Mountain" is available as a free download from the Home Is Not Here website.

 

After performing and recording for two-and-a-bit years as a solo ambient acoustic loops project called The Noble Son, I started to re-examine my songwriting style. I was starting to feel like I was obsessed with creating music that I could perform solo on stage, and so really began to feel quite constricted by the project I once felt was liberating. Beginning in 2007, I invested a lot of energy into music production technologies, and in doing so, began to view the studio itself as an instrument. Due to this paradigm shift, I began to explore all sorts of avenues that I had previously closed off to myself: from things as simple as traditional song structures, to more complicated things like audio manipulation techniques. No longer caring about whether I could replicate my studio sound live opened up a new world of possibilities! A large part of my year of living in the arctic was spent honing these studio skills, and developing the songs that you are currently hearing. Knowing very early in the process that the result was really miles away from what I was doing as The Noble Son, I cast off the moniker, and called the new project Kites Overhead. The name is inspired by a particularly beautiful scene from the Sigur Rós documentary "Heima." I hope you enjoy the new music, and would love to hear what you think.

 

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