A PATH UNTOLD
A Path Untold is the solo project of Daniel Merrill, who is one half of the genre-crossing electronic music duo known as Aligning Minds.
Typically known for their work in the realms of ‘transformational’ psychedlic bass music, downtempo and idm, Aligning Minds has made a large impact on audiences worldwide with their melodic, soulful sound.
A Path Untold unlocks a new chapter in this producers focus, moving forward with the creation of music that defies genre categorization and captivates the imagination and heart. It explores the notion that “music is a mystery to be unraveled; a path to explore the far reaches of yet untold existence”.
Think mystical melodic story-telling through the use of explorative texture and harmonic bass presence, calling into existence the sound of alternate realms of beauty, intrigue and wonder.
You can also dance to it!
Pillowbook
A man draws from his pipe and from the smoke a ghost emerges. A fashionable young lady flashes an ambiguous half-smile as she passes by. The brush, wet with ink, makes a thick, black circle upon rough paper. The koi swim languidly in the jade-green pond. A fragile bamboo whisk stirs the tea to a froth and, pausing to admire the cup our host has chosen for us, we drink. pillowbook is electronic musician/guitarist/composer Adrian Bond and vocalist/keyboardistsinger-songwriter Joanne Juskus. They have performed at such venues as the Birchmere, Columbia Festival of the Arts, Bethlehem Music Festival, NYC’s Knitting Factory, among others. They also performed, to critical acclaim, a live score composed by Bond for the classic 1927 silent film Metropolis at Baltimore’s Senator and Patterson Theaters as well as at the Metro Gallery. Adrian has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and Joanne is also the lead singer of Baltimore psychedelic tribal band Telesma.
MARIAN MCLAUGHLIN
“McLaughlin shares a great sense of storytelling and its quirky personality, but explores even dreamier terrain.”
-David Hintz, DC ROCK LIVE REVIEWS
Marian McLauhglin is a DC based folk singer-songwriter with a unique voice and approach to story telling. McLaughlin creates lyrically-driven songs with complimentary arrangements on her classical guitar that are delicate yet full of depth. She aims to push folk music’s envelope by pairing intricate fingerpicking and explorative chords with expressive themes and rhapsodic delivery.
McLaughlin’s lovely and easy guitar work weaves beautiful sounds that resonate like an echo, where her narratives lay down and stay with the listener. Her ethereal sound parallels the fantasy, wonder, and enchantment that mushrooms conjure in our imagination, making Maid Marian an incredible addition to this experience.
The video for her song “Before You Leave” was recently featured on NPR Music, and she self-released her first studio album Dérive this past January.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2013/11/14/245234575/first-watch-marian-mclaughlin-before-you-leave/
Listen to more of Marian’s music here: http://marianmclaughlin.bandcamp.com/
DEEPG is a duo from Baltimore, MD; consisting of Alex Szydelski (visual artist) and Jon Burrier (drums/percussion). No assigned instrumentation allows ample room for improvisation. Unpredictable sounds create auditory abstractions. Unconventional and unique with elements that range of industrial and noise.
Canopy
Photo by Christy Zuccarini
Canopy is a collaboration between Baltimore residents, Matt Muirhead and McKenzie Ditter. The duo digs deep into the roots of human musical memory and finds the melodic frequencies that lie there. Matt is a longtime builder of non-traditional instruments, primarily kalimba and tamboura. He is an avid collector of wooden boxes and transforms each one into an instrument unique unto itself. The metal tines on the kalimbas are created from Baltimore’s own street cleaner brushes and McKenzie tunes each one individually. Their improvised music relies on the interplay of two harmonizing kalimbas and their relationship of notes. Most recently, they discovered the “Hokkaido” scale, a haunting collection of notes reminiscent of the cold snows of the northern Japanese island. Matt has also recently invented something he calls the “soundboard,” a sensitized wooden surface for the kalimbas to be played on which picks up very minute vibrations and conveys them to an amplifier. It allows the frequencies of two kalimbas to pass through the same piece of wood, blending the tones to create a unified sound. They are influenced by classical and traditional world music but also draw highly from modern electronic styles. Outside of creating music, Matt and McKenzie are both primarily visual artists. Learn more about each on their websites, www.mattmuirhead.jimdo.com and www.mckenzieelizabeth.co.
More musicians TBA