Ocean in a bottle,
my ambient music project first started all the way back in the middle
of 2014, however it’s origin dated to the end of 2013 actually
where I decided to get a upgrade to the keyboard I was using for live
shows for my then band ‘A Means to an End’. I forgot who advised
(forgotten about in the mists of time, sorry whoever you were) me to
get a mini USB keyboard and I ended up ordering one off amazon.
Sadly, for reasons I
can’t remember it never made the live set for ‘A Means to an End’
as it became apparent it was going to take longer than all of us
thought for me to get used to it so it got packed away not to be
used. At the time, it is worth noting I was in a relationship with a
none artist lady who never really liked me using it and I never used
it.
However, fast
forward 9 months or so and only got pulled out the following year
when the relationship I was in finished and I used it to try and help
myself sleep really (the first single ‘Weaving Goodbye’ came in
respond to that partly). Although there was recordings before that,
there were all over the place structure wise and I find it painful to
listen to the early recordings and possibly should haven’t released
them and hung on for another six months or so, but those early
recordings were important of times in my life as I was generally
producing a single, EP or album almost every month.
It was a crazy
period as I sometimes would spend night after night after work if I
wasn’t going out to any poetry event recording piece by piece just
playing it by ear with no training atall, and over time found my feet
and found stream and downloads slowly built up as I carried on
releasing material. When I got together with Amanda, my partner at
the end of 2016, it got to the end of that year and in the start of
the following year, I actually decided I had took the sound as far as
I could and was going to pack it in around February or March 2017,
only for Amanda to have some terrible family news (which I won’t go
into here) and really needed me more than ever which delayed the
release of what was going to be the last single ‘Finale’ for a
few months and by the time I got to it, I had already started work on
the next single ‘From Chords to Dischords’ which was very floaty
air music.
Since then, I did a
series of Autumn based music sometimes with field sounds ontop of it,
and am currently working on a series of Space themed music (Currently
there are Inner Space, Outer space, Searching for Planet 9, Searching
for Planet 9 (Remixes), Floating from the earth to the Moon and back,
and First Approach of Mars and in my next blog I’ll talk about
future releases in mind) but Ocean in a Bottle is still developing,
and I am still finding new avenues and directions I want to take
Ocean in a Bottle in. It’s mostly been a emotional journey for me
through changes in my life, and like my poetry is sometimes I can’t
see ending yet.
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