Earthbound, by Alex Wilson

Earthbound

by Alex Wilson

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1.	Flight of the Zephyr 07:43	info	buy track
2.	Stellar Wind 07:18	info	buy track
3.	Experiment in Sound and Texture no. 1 06:19	info	buy track
4.	Through the Asteroid Belt 07:24	info	buy track
5.	Experiment in Sound and Texture no. 2 06:31	info	buy track
6.	Electric Angel 04:53	info	buy track
7.	Universal Language 14:33	info	buy track
8.	Earthbound 08:03	info	buy track

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After six years of writing and re-writing (and recording and re-recording), this project is finally available for your ears to listen to. To me, this project is very representative of my own coming of age and my own growth as an artist from adolescence into adulthood.
Thanks to everyone that inspired me, supported me, spent hours rehearsing the material with me, and those that lent me their ears and knowledge to help make the project sound as good as it possibly could.

Earthling, Earthbound
Rob Wallace

Alex Wilson represents a compelling and relatively long tradition in music—that of the exceptionally gifted performer/composer who plays many different instruments and operates in a number of different musical contexts. Contemporary society often asks us to be one thing in order to make money; music culture often asks us to play one instrument (and play or sing in one particular way) in order to authentically and respectfully represent a single tradition. But it is now clear that there has long been a musical and social tradition of doing exactly the opposite: working diligently, with discipline, on a number of different ideas and techniques—playing and paying attention to different genres and music cultures. Wilson is not a “Renaissance Man,” but a curious citizen of the world, eager to connect his personal aesthetics with the rich diversity of history and present-day life. Even though he was raised in a largely digitally-connected world, I suspect that growing up in Lake Havasu, AZ has a lot to do with Wilson’s creativity. American culture in general, as James Baldwin noted long ago, is often suspicious of intellectual inquiry and personal growth. Like many artists from small towns, Wilson sought in music a connection to other worlds, other times, and other people. And while so-called “prog-rock”—the genre that many listeners might associate this recording with—has gotten flak for decades as being pretentious, over-blown, etc., Wilson’s contribution to music is clearly an emotionally direct, musically interesting, and deeply personal (i.e., honest and without pretense) effort to connect. He describes himself as a “bedroom composer,” but his sounds reach ears far outside of domestic space—into outer space and into the inner space of many satisfied Earthlings. In reaching out from his own world of sound, Wilson brings us back to Earth. The artists collaborating on visual material for this album are but one example of the community surrounding and supporting Wilson’s music. Despite what the title of one of the musical selections on the recording may suggest, Wilson’s music, or any music, is not a “universal language.” But music can potentially reach us in ways that other methods of communication cannot. Earthbound: all we have is each other, and through our creative encounters, we might just be able to connect on other levels, to make other worlds, other sounds, better lives.

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released November 8, 2019

All sounds by Alex Wilson and NASA
Mastered by Josiah Rodriguez
Released to Nonessential Records (NR_002)
Recorded in my bedroom in Flagstaff, Arizona

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Alex Wilson Redmond, Washington

Bedroom based improviser, composer, and sound artist inspired by prog, psychedelia, jazz, ambient, and all things experimental.

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