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m2 - music by eric san juan

ambient guitar noises. soundscapes, drones and feedback.

 

m2 is unadorned expressions with the guitar, written, recorded and conceived exactly as it first spills out of the amp. never planned, always improvised. i cannot recreate these pieces. all music by eric san juan. sample these sounds at will.

 

james fenimore cooper (2009)

accepting the days of nothing

1) james fenimore cooper (31:06)

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Ashes (2009)

accepting the days of nothing

1) Choking on Ashes (7:18)
2) Sleep Paralysis (8:48)
3) Dry Story (7:11)
4) Are His Defenses Going To Hold Up? (3:28)
5) Climbing Mountains and Falling Short (16:16)

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Six Stories (2009)

accepting the days of nothing

1) The First Story (1:48)
2) The Second Story (6:54)
3) The Third Story (4:11)
4) The Fourth Story (1:13)
5) The Fifth Story (5:34)
6) The Sixth Story (6:24)
7) The Muse Curls Up, Dies (22:34)

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Dying Mother (2008)

accepting the days of nothing

1) Dying Mother (11:15)
2) Squeezed Breath From Hardened Lungs (11:58)
3) Love Hate Love (11:20)
4) Ruined Days and Sleepless Nights (13:42)

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the dialogue of narrow sorrows (2008)

accepting the days of nothing

1) Morning With Coffee (2:03)
2) Creature Comforts - movement 1 (7:13)
3) Creature Comforts - movement 2 (2:55)
4) A Fine Time To Forget Your Friends (10:26)
5) Delays In The State of Marriage (2:43)
6) Ugly Dirty Angry Stares part 1 (4:52)
7) Ugly Dirty Angry Stares part 2 (7:47)
8) Ugly Dirty Angry Stares part 3 (1:29)
9) The Quiet Days of Solitude Roll Away (2:17)
10) A New State of Grace (10:46)
11) Out of My System on a Sunday (11:09)
12) Empty Again (3:06)

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eight times alone (2007)

eight times alone

 

Finalized in a great rush during 2007, "eight times alone" is a record about longing. All song recorded on the TASCAM Porta 7 except Preparing A Resume, At Room Temperature..., and The Ramification..., all recorded directly to desktop PC with CoolEdit pro.

 

1) Preparing A Resume (6:43)
2) Creative Endeavors Abandoned (10:32)
3) Tea Leaves (4:55)
4) At Room Temperature They Leave, Don’t Call (6:28)
5) On Air (6:14)
6) Beast From Forbidden Planet (6:05)
7) It’s Lonely Here (2:42)
8) The Ramifications of Answering Machines (13:33)

 

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from seven fields of vision (1998)

from seven fields of vision

It all fell out of the guitar in 1998, during and after Slumbersigh. "Opus version" weaves all tracks together into one piece. Received airplay on college stations in the late 1990s.

1) The First Shard (4:18)
2) Passage (11:46)
3) The Mother Wheel (5:28)
4) Storm (3:16)
5) Within The Eye (6:52)
6) Sunfire Landing (6:33)
7) Touching Io (9:59)
8) ********** (7:16)
9) Portal (15:14)

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Selected Works

A Year of Hitchcock: 52 Weeks with the Master of Suspense - Official website

Pitched! Vol. 1: Nine Stories- An anthology in graphic novel format

Storms: short fiction Available at Boston Literary Magazine

m2 - Albums of sprawling soundscapes

X-Sweet- Home recorded songs by Eric

 

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The Year of Hitchcock podcast - hosted by Eric San Juan and Jim McDevitt

 

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