Stargazer 21

It is like being thrown into the mix of spacetime and fumbling your way into a synthesis of Dreams and you're dreaming; until something unlocks keys with better and bigger Doors...

It's really no wonder, but all of it of Wonder

In youth we often receive strange, immense impressions of awe and wonder about the universe and life and the world around us. Do they grow larger and deeper with time? Much later I had to find an expressive outlet to reflect those wondrous impressions.. which brings me here and now. It makes me do this.

You do what you must and then they will know why...

It's surreal; and so real

So, from the hearts of Supernovae to a theatrical planet near...

You

One day I woke up and decided to experiment with guitar and sounds.

Here I am, 47 years later.

Over the decades since 1976 I've been self-taught on all instruments. I have been in a few jamming scenarios with a multitude of other musicians, most notably in Tangent and HalKen, in which we improvised over loose ideas thrown into the mix of recording. Space and speed metal and psychedelia have permeated my work, and as I survey my explorations over the years I can see the scenic, multi-textured nature of my orientation, always looking to portray a deeper reality all around us, only obscured by the grind of daily living, but there nonetheless behind the facades of things. We are part of an extraordinary experience being a part of the continuum of Life, in an unimaginably vast Universe amid the machinations of Nature itself.

It is a blessing, and a curse, but it is unfathomably unique to be here...and to be human.

And all too evanescent.

Love and appreciation and the vast galaxies of our imaginations make it a bit more negotiable.

Explore and appreciate it for all it's worth!

Occasionally, and an intensely personal experience. I begin, it takes over and 'plays'.

An ineffable energy is evoked that still mystifies me--'improvising' life is as electric as sex, but far more mystifying. I am still comprehending it. Some notes can be found at: reverbnation.com/stargazer21

Life, Bernard Hermann soundtracks to old movies (especially to "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951), the original "Twilight Zone" (B. Hermann often did the music) and "Outer Limits," Nature, Time and Space, birds, the wind, early Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream, John McLaughlin, Hendrix, Robin Trower, Fripp, some metal, Type O Negative, industrial sounds, dreams, the Wind, but mostly my imagination (and early Pink Floyd a la "Saucerful of Secrets" and "Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun").

Electric guitar/effects, synths, drum machines, TASCAM cassette 4-track and digital 8-track recorders, Akai 16 Track recorder. Audacity used for final mixdown to upload.

Let the music take you on your own unique journey.......The Mystery is Everything, and we are witnessing it for a short time...don't become too insensitive to it: we are from the hearts of supernovae and Black Holes helped form the galaxies..just for you