#galaxybeach

Hello good people I hope this reaches you well on this long easter weekend. I sit here typing and listening to Local Natives’ “Gorilla Manor” album drinking a hot cup of tea (Taylors of Harrowgate English Breakfast if you’re wondering) and also yes I drink breakfast tea at 11pm. I’m weird. I am in good spirits tonight. It’s been an encouraging couple of weeks both as a person and as an artist. I’ve just come out of a mundane season filled with apathy. I would create. I would write but all of it seemed to fall short of what I had intended, which is a frustrating feeling as an artist. The one job you have is to express yourself and you can’t do that. It’s hard to take. It’s hard to battle through that feeling of inadequacy. You’re like a car without fuel. Going nowhere and unable to do anything about it. Gladly though I admit to you I am past that season and now everything is new and bright and shiny and I am excited again. All that to say I have a few things I would love to share with you. 

First, at long last, I have finished my song Jericho and will be releasing it Wednesday April 8th, 2015. This song is my first real composition and it is very telling of the last year of my songwriting life. It’s been a transition as I moved from writing as part of an indie/prog rock band to then entering the vast world of electronic music production. It was an adjustment to say the least. This song I am really connected to. It’s all about breaking down walls and being patient with that process. Sometimes it’s just persistence that pays off in the end - and that’s the point of this song. It’s a very cinematic snapshot of what I felt last year and I hope you enjoy it. 

Also, I would just like to say I had the privilege the past six months to work on a couple collaborations with some dear friends which will be released very soon so please keep your eye open for those. I am very excited about them. 

Finally, perhaps the biggest news. I have decided that I will be recording an album this year. I have already started the writing process for the record and I hope to release it this year. A debut EP from Galaxy Beach is on the way and I hope that excites you as much as it does me because I’m really not sure what this is going to look like. I am pulled in so many different directions in terms of influences and I’ve put off defining Galaxy Beach in any concrete way up until now because I wanted the freedom to allow my sound to shape organically and the time has come for that process to take shape. 

For those of you who took the time to read this I just want to thank you so much. You are a beautiful soul and you mean so much to me. For me creation is no fun in isolation so that you for providing a context for my creations. 

Sincerely and always yours, 

I really love the journey - and I don't mean the musical journey or the journey of creating things. I mean the journey of life and bringing people along with you. It's important to include people and so for those of you who are taking the time to read this. Thank you for being part of my journey. 

Now, of course my journey does include art and creation and making things... It's a satisfying feeling taking all the resources, and emotion and talent and piecing it all together into something uniquely you - and that's kind of the problem. Sometimes it's really difficult to define exactly who you are. It doesn't matter really age or status or gender, because identity is a tricky thing. It's tough to find and often you aren't exactly sure what that looks like and how people will respond to it. The same applies to musical identity and though I assure you I have been busy travelling down many roads to find that thing, that piece that is uniquely me. I am not quite there yet. 

But the path to self discovery is not a passive one. I have been working with many other creatives getting opportunities constantly to express myself in different ways to Remix, Rework, and Cowrite. All these are brand new experiences for me and have been unique to my musical journey in this past year. Now it should be known that at the very core of my creative mind is a songwriter. I play make-believe when I step into the producers/engineers chair, but it's been a fantastic dream that is no doubt helping me in my songwriting. 

Until such a time comes that I am able to fully express myself I hope that you will follow with intrigue as I attempt a varied number of creative outlets. If you desire here are some links to reveal my fingerprints over the last while. 

Galaxy Beach Remixes EP - A Compilation of the four remixes i've done. 

http://noisetrade.com/galaxybeach/remixes

Galaxy Beach Bandcamp - I cowrote a song with my talented friend Joshua Lim

https://galaxybeach.bandcamp.com/

I currently have my hands on a few different project that I hope you will keep your eyes out for. Thanks for your time and you love 

With Love, As Always, 

Electronic Musical Expression. Born and Raised on the Wet Coast. Vancouver B.C.