2019, the unexpected year

High Marks "Precipice" (Persistentmidnight)

MELOK TYR "When the Tale Collapses to Nothing" (Stormmask LTD)

Paralysis Image "Concrete Body" (self release)

High Marks "Sister Shadow" (Persistentmidnight)

Desolate Moon Phases "Heathenstones" (Stickfigure / Stormmask LTD)

Lake Lander "A Walk EP" (Persistentmidnight)

Warning Light "Shaking Through a Hillside Blue" (Persistentmidnight)

Past Dawn "Dreaming Ulterium" (Stormmask LTD)

High Marks "Four Takes... Fake Turns" (Persistentmidnight

A much busier year for High Marks than any of my other projects, 2019 surprised me on so many levels. But, a new drum machine and a couple changes to my recording setup have changed how I look at music. I can't help but think this year of recording was the perfect way to exorcise some of the ghosts from my Atlanta days. Being in Minneapolis has changed every aspect of my life, but it specifically has changed my old recording routines. Life is an evolution. 

Ambient Programme Vol I

There has been a bit of a hiatus on this project, but it has afforded me time to slowly archive and look back on the last 10 years of this project. It occurred to me that many of my favorite tracks might sound quite different without the percussion and the synths remixed with a spacious sheen. I changed the arrangements, resampled and dubbed some elements, and this Ambient Programme series idea came into being. 

This is the first in a series of works, four long playing ambient albums that are part of a whole. In some ways, a spiritual successor to the Heavens Above, Heavens Below and Cosmic Mediation projects, these albums are comprised of only long form deep listening tracks... Minimalist overtures dubbed into spacey infinity... sleep musik for aberrant daydreamers

I hope you enjoy it.

Left Behind the Range collection

PM050: Warning Light "Left Behind the Range" I've put up this collection of Warning Light stuff from the 2014-2018 era, my favorite mixes/dubs/cuts that didn't end up on XXXI, Oftenchance, Inland Empires Disregard the Sea, and At the End of the Road. This era of experimenting with rhythm, repetition, sampling and different arrangements marked a time of a lot of change for me as a musician and a producer. These tracks were recorded at Bedsitter Studios in Avondale Estates, and with my current move it makes it the last WL release I recorded there. I'll always look back fondly at my studio time there, I made a LOT of records there. Thanks to everyone who helped make it possible, I won't soon forget any of it.

Persistentmidnight Productions 2017 mixtape

A mixtape of the recent year of PM productions for all to enjoy on youtube

Luxury Through Repetition LP mixes

PM040: Warning Light "Luxury Through Repetition" also up as individual mixes, a different listening experience from the beat tape. Pressed as a limited CD.

tracklist:

A 

The Mystery Letter Further Glance the Sphere Casting Tiny Sparks ParcParque B Airlock Island Placer Permanently Out to Sea She's Gone Liquid 

that beat tape can be viewed/heard here  youtu.be/iIDfy7jK2DE

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

Gloworming Through the Southern Skies debut

The next song out for preview from At the End of the Road is "Gloworming Through the Southern Skies," and it features Rachel M from Snowbride on synths / electronics. The album doesn't come out until the end of October, but I'm excited to have a couple pieces of it up for people to hear. Enjoy.

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!

Oftenchance CD

Oftenchance is the product of a year of solid recording/experimenting. As an album, I'm tremendously proud of the content and layout, so I hope you enjoy. I think this one is fairly eclectic, maybe a little sentimental, but definitely epic. The CD can be purchased HERE on Discogs. Special thanks to Stickfigure Records and Matt Weiner on this one.

PROGRAMME: 
A 
1/ Across Owl Creek Bridge 
2/ Face the Future 
3/ Past the Haro Strait 
4/ The Afterlives of Free Masons 
B 
5/ Daytripping Digital 
6/ A Love Complication 
7/ The Lieutenant Colonel 
C 
8/ Learn to Curve 
9/ A Run Up and Down the Intercoastal 
10/ The Morning You Made Coffee Instead

XXXI

XXXI is coming soon...

Update: May 2013

After taking a couple months off, I've finally come back to Warning Light writing.

I've finished recording on two full length albums, one that was in the works for the last two years, one that is more immediate. The long gestating album is called The Lost Patterns, and I'm very happy with it. For those that have heard the other records I've made, this will be something different.

This is from the more immediate album, called Beyond, which I might self release in the next few weeks: