While you’re there, check out my other two albums as well. BYHTG is the most polished of all of them, as I am still mastering the art of recording and producing Ambient music in my home; but the others are very good (though I may be a little biased, since I am the artist).
Once album sales reach a certain dollar amount, I will use that money to put out another album, which is already in the process of being created.

Work in progress. Don’t read too much into it. Things sometimes actually are what they seem on the surface.

Lyrics

I moved out to California
With a little hope and pride
But I didn’t know that she could kill a man
And steal his bride

She look down upon the downed man
Talking shit and drinking wine
Well, she scoff and she laugh and she scorn
And she won’t give you the time

Home is where I am bound
Home, though I don’t know where that may be

Moved out to California
With a bride and child in tow
And because of lies and the like and so forth
It’s been requested that I go

I should have walked the high road
But I insisted on the low
Now the state I’m in is far removed from
The best case scenario

Home is where I am bound
Bound, though I don’t know where that may be

Movin’ out of California
Without a penny to my name
Movin out cause this place has destroyed
My sense of self, my ties,
And my name
And my name

‘Destroia’ was Ambient with Drone influences. ‘Defait’ was mostly Alt-Electronic. ‘Before You Hit the Ground’ is a mixture of the two, leaning more toward the direction of Ambience. It focuses heavily on orchestral patterns, slow time changes, and layered environment backgrounds.

So, mark it on your calendar and pick up ‘Before You Hit the Ground’ on iTunes on March 1st! You’ll be glad you did!

There are several parts, or in classical terms, movements, to any given ambient piece. The good stuff isn’t always in the obvious places, as subtlety is the art behind the Ambient genre.

History
Early 20th century French composer Erik Satie created an early form of ambient music that he referred to as “furniture music” (Musique d’ameublement), in reference to something that could be played during a dinner whose sound would simply create an atmosphere for that activity rather than be the specific focus of attention.

Brian Eno is generally credited with coining the term “ambient music” in the mid-1970s to refer to music that, as he stated, can be either “actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener”, and that exists on the “cusp between melody and texture.” Eno, who describes himself as a “non-musician”, termed his experiments in sound as “treatments” rather than as traditional performances. Eno used the word “ambient” to describe music that creates an atmosphere that puts the listener into a different state of mind; having chosen the word based on the Latin term “ambire”, “to surround”.
“Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” – Brian Eno, 1978

As it stands right now, though, the album will be released through Pisteo Records on March 1, 2009.  I’ve made some changes to the order and name of a few of the songs.

It will feature the following tracks:

1. Compost (25:08)

2. Sin Dhas (4:20)

3. Detox (6:18)

4. Before You Hit the Ground (11:17)

5. Vac Oden (14:00)

6. Fear and Trembling (14:01)

This is the opening track to the first album, Destroia.

Track 2 from the upcoming album ‘Before You Hit the Ground’