Aztech Rising
AzTech Rising is a synthesis of music derived from a harmonious merging of that which is intuitively inspired and yet mathematically precise and consciously dir
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Your Place in the Sun Your Place in the Sun
Aztech Rising and before that Lightdreams have generally been created for specific projects, Aztech Rising for touring virtual worlds and Lightdreams for releasing a Vinyl album in 1981 called Islands in Space.Band/artist history
1971 A Time and Space for Everyone
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2000 Coastal Curios
A lot more detailed and updated current information about various projects in-between can be found online, currently on I think it is close to 50 albums worth of original material at this point, all recorded at various degrees of quality from initial Sound on Sound reel to reel recordings (70s) to Stereo 4Track TEAC stuff (80s) to HI-FI Video (90s) to current MiniDisk MD4 digital stuff and of course Internet Mp3s!
There has only ever been one official release of an album in 1981 called under the name of Light Dreams. This was an acoustic/techno/multi-substance state of the art of music as it tried to satisfy peak moments in a wide variety of altered states. (Surprisingly alcohol was not one of them!)
The album continues to remain at the heart of my dreams and hopes that we can pursue and succeed at Space Habitation and I think it shall sound quite fabulous on the new International Space Station... The Challenger disaster took the wind out of it at the time, but as we gingerly approach the prospects of space habitation in this new century I believe that Islands in Space will rise again... like a Pheonix! Into the High Frontier as beautifully envisioned in Gerrard O'Neil's book of the same name...this album was dedicated to that vision.
I will be installing part of the album here for sure! Come back and visit.
And thank you for taking this time and space to interview me and to the readers and listeners for their interest.Have you performed in front of an audience?I am primarily an adventure in my own mind, generally waiting for opportune moments to play live, when conditions and stars align to invite me to play live in a contemporary and focused way. I enjoy it very much but only under certain conditions, Concerto- style where the audience is seated and receptive to a philosophical stream of consciousness that they allow to flow through their awareness from that impossible objectivity one rarely can sustain, but one that remains an ideal in my music.
Your musical influences
Well I like innovation Beatlesque harmonies, Alan Parsons style production and exploritory soundscapes that deviate from the mono zone. Intricate compositions like Strawberry Fields and I am the Walrus remain my favourite all-round conceptually complete master-pieces of the last century. Any kind of progressive rock from Gentle Giant to King Crimson was always an influence.What equipment do you use?
I currently use Magix MusicMaker and Sony's Acid to record but I've used the Yamaha MD4 to record too. I have a hand-made bass, Korg M50 plus and old Mirage Sampler, DanElectro guitar, Epiphone 12 string, the Boss ME-25 foot pedal and still enjoy IVL's old Pitch-Rider 7000 and of course Roland's Sound Canvas.
I enjoy creating my own patchesAnything else?
Well philosophically speaking, life is like a dream to me, with an emphasis on 'like'. I was born with a huge potential to become Aware, using my sense impressions as tools of consciousness to go out and gather data, live, love and find truth and hopefully expand my awareness from all the perspectives I travel within and without. Stepping back from that stream of consciousness I remain unattached yet immersed in a total and momentary flow of events steaming in and streaming out of my field of view, I grab hold tightly to only this instant and try and make the absolute best of it and then let go lightly as I am overwhelmed by the next swell of impressions and thoughts that rush in. I am thankful to be still inspired to create new music, it is basically the soundtrack of my life.
Music is in effect, forced out of me by the accumulated fullness of various points on the continuum of this single moment stretching WAY back in time to WAY forward into the future. I abide in as much timelessness as I can handle and generally meet most deadlines as a result. So what else is there? I continue my journey. Thanks again for stopping by, please feel free to enter my guestbook... an artist thrives and grows on feedback negative or positive but hard as is it is one should never take it personally in this endlessly subjective Universe.
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Nice- dare I say it mellow sound!
i picked yours cause it was the last in the charts and it proved to be the best one in that chart. well done
good stuff here, keep it up, also My first cd release through Statue Records is out now, to order a copy hit me up at J13Reno@aol.com $10 for 19 tracks. stay up
Peace J1
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