The lovely ambient sounds of Kourosh

Kourosh Eusebio (Dini in his First Life) has selected my artwork, "The Queens of Dopplegangs", to be the cover of his recent live performance @ Wye-Eye-Slash.

I haven't visited the venue inworld for myself, but the music — what I've heard of the the nearly-hour-long recording so far — is minimal lushness with emotive piano (really nice tones) and padded underpinnings. Long melodic drones coalesce with floating cadences, chord progressions wrapping themselves snugly around the spine of each fading note as the next comes on. Yeah, I'm likin' it.

In an expansive way, it's reminiscent of one of my fave jazz pianists, Keith Jarrett. Some of the stretched-out passages remind me of the Deus Ex: Invisible War soundtrack… that feeling that comes upon you when you exit the hotel for a smoke at 3 in the morning. And I don't even smoke. But I do think about cities in the future, and what kind of music gets played in them. I'd like to think it's this, in a golden calm, in the same sort of sci-fi vantage point I approached — wondering who you are in an age where privacy is irrelevant.

Building, building… guided flow…

Kourosh has a unique blog, in large part because he writes about his experiences not just from the perspective of a musician, but a psychiatrist. He has some really introspective thoughts and you can read them while you listen to his relaxing music, so check it out. Thanx for finding my imagery well-suited to complement your sounds, Kourosh!

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