I'm currently gearing up to release my new album Mesmera on the 8th August, and decided to share a track in advance of its release. The track is called "You Have To Let Go", and you can check it out here:
The album itself is a sort-of spiritual successor to an earlier album of mine called And All Is As It Should Be, which was a totally beatless ambient album I released back in 2012. I've been meaning to re-visit this style again for a long time, and decided to mix things up a bit this time with some more rolling percussion.
The track itself is based on an old idea I started way back in 2008 in Reason 4 and just got totally stuck on. It really bugged me that I could never finish it, until I listened back to it again this year and decided to re-build it from scratch in Reason 10. I was really thrilled with how it turned out, and so I decided to use it to round-out the album that was more-or-less otherwise complete by this point. After a decade of having this tune sitting around in an incomplete form, the relief of finally finishing it was nothing short of palpable!
The full album will be released on the 8th August as a pay-what-you-want thing on Bandcamp, though I'll be releasing an Extended version for Bandcamp subscribers and anyone who pre-orders it. It'll also be making its way over to iTunes/Spotify/Amazon/et al. I'd love to know what you think!
Cheers