2018, a year's journey

So, 2018 manifested itself as a time of transformation and travel for me. I left my home studio of 10 years in Avondale Estates Bedsitter studios (RIP) to start something new in Minneapolis, MN. I'm lucky I got to make anything at all this year, let alone nine releases (and an appearance on the Knifeplay compilation). At the end of the summer, I made it out to Oregon for the first time, it was about as amazing as I had hoped it would be. 

Persistentmidnight compilation "My Sound as Sculpture"

Warning Light "Left Behind the Range"

Sareth Den "Follower Year"

Paralysis Image "False Pink"

RE-MAINDR "Chillsmoker Streetlamps" beat tape

Distant Hymns "Yama EP"

Lake Lander "Past Distant Horizons"

Desolate Moon Phases "As the Dark Empire Burns Around Them"

Stormmask LTD compilation "I am alone, but so are you."

Persistentmidnight 2017

My Persistentmidnight productions for the year. All music/production/art by me. A lot of people came to visit my corner of the multiverse this year. Hopefully next year they will return, and a lot more will come along too. Special thanks to Stickfigure, Wool-e-Tapes, Rachel, Curtis, John, Travis, Jaye, Lake, and Chris.

Warning Light "Cosmic Mediation EP"
High Marks "Steel Grieves" (Wool-e-Tapes)
Seeing the Sights "Mojave Sunsets LP"
Outer Gods "Severed Together"
Clone Operators "Melting Back the Foil EP"
Lake Lander "PRE EMBRYONIC SOUNDS"
Warning Light "At the End of the Road" (Stickfigure)
High Marks "Systems Emerge Obsolete. EP"
Warning Light "Luxury Through Repetition" / beat tape

Luxury Through Repetition beat tape

These past six months, I've been listening to a lot of beat tapes on YouTube, and tho I've cycled through several genres of tapes, I've never found one that really does anything quite like what I do. So after some experimenting and dubbing, I found myself with a raucous collection of things roughly approaching psychedelic motorik electro, which I then assembled into a full 34 min beat tape for YouTube. I may do LP mixes of these tracks at some point, but for now, here they are in one full tape.

At the End of the Road, out for all to hear/see/experience

At the End of the Road has seen it's physical debut in the past week, and I couldn't be prouder of it as an album. It's a long, lonely, wistful album, a double LP length meditation on how and why life changes the way it does, and how endings can lead to new things. I pushed myself hard to make an experimental and immersive ambient album, and with a little help from several compatriots it came together nicely. This project grew out of a very fertile period for me, but I'm lucky I even finished this album. In the three years it took to record, there were certainly several months in there where nothing was accomplished. For a few weeks this summer it felt like I may just need to drop the project, but somehow, I kept a clear head (*meditation*is*everything*) and finished everything. After some stops and starts in the mixdown process, I mastered the album on a hastily assembled mobile station in a rental condo over the course of just one particularly hot week in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Many thanks to Stickfigure for pressing the compact disc version, I spent a lot of time working on an art aesthetic that matched the sound so it was a real thrill to hold this album in my hands finally. And many thanks to the two best.

And now, as they say, on to the next adventure.

sincerely, DH

Little Hearts, Big (Interludes) debut

hey All! The first song selection from At the End of the Road is up for your preview/enjoyment on Stickfigure's soundcloud; I'm very excited for this album to be out in the world soon.

This song specifically started as a live interlude I used between other pieces, but it eventually took on a life of it's own. The fifth song on At the End of the Road, it's not quite the halfway point of this sprawling hour and seventeen minute album.

Life/Death Suite

Presenting an experimental EP, featuring some material left over from the Oftenchance sessions, further whirl-winded together into two epic suites, "Often Chance" and "Dream Lovers Never Dream Alone." I made a small cassette edition with handmade art cards and released them on Babylon cassettes, a small imprint of my Persistentmidnight label.

I should have copies at my upcoming show, opening for the Nomen Novum album release show on March 26th in Atlanta at the 529, with Fiat Nil, Anticipation, and Pamela_and her sons. I'll be opening!

Beyond is now up to listen to / download

A new album!!! Things are still moving ahead on finishing my album The Lost Patterns, but for now I'm self releasing my more spacey collection, Beyond. So put on some headphones, sit somewhere dark, indulge in your favorite indulgence, and zone out to my new Warning Light.

Well, the times were bound to change. Recently, after lots of sound experimentation, I've decided to divide things off a bit. Warning Light is becoming more focused, and my side projects will be a little more "out there." My next Warning Light album is still tenatively scheduled for the fall, and I think the new sounds will be a pleasant surprise to anyone who has followed the different albums over the years. But until then, you can check out: 1) My split C30 with Repeated Viewing from Glasgow. It will be out in an ever-so-limited-edition of 100 copies on green cassettes. 2) I contributed to a drone album by Seeing the Sights, you can check that out/download it free in the next week or so at: seeingthesights.bandcamp.com 3) The quiet, industrial-noise of downers. "medicated loathing" and the upcoming "Plague Rhythms", at: downers.bandcamp.com So check out all that stuff...