Finally finishing a music project feels great! (m2 – Passageways to the Ever)

Finally finishing a music project feels great! (m2 – Passageways to the Ever)

Posted inMusic, Promotions, Works by Eric
It feels like forever since I finished a music project. That's because it's been since pre-pandemic since I finished anything, and pandemic time has been an eternity. I do music because it gets something out of my system. If I go too long without creating some sounds, I get antsy. So I'm glad to have finally finished something. Granted, all of this material was recorded pre-Covid. It just took me that long to put it all together -- not because it was difficult, but because my head just wasn't in it. Such has been Covid life. But it's finished, and…
Unplugged 3: Insanely excited about the next two m2 projects, so that’s great

Unplugged 3: Insanely excited about the next two m2 projects, so that’s great

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
Sat down for my first purposeful recording session in a long while a few weeks ago. Recorded for four or five hours straight, just a mic in a room (an attic, actually) a few feet in front of my amp. Really cold up there. My fingers were numb. Laid down ten tracks of material, lots of layered guitar work weaving in and out of one another rather than the dense sound assault I've done in recent years. Tried a new approach to playing and just attempted various iterations on it. The interplay of the guitars excited me. Had about an…
Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

Unplugged 2: snow daze are no ways

Posted inMusic, Random Musings
My whole life, staying focused has always been a challenge. As long as I'm doing new things, exploring new ideas, doing new tasks, and pursuing creative projects I can keep that in check (usually by multitasking so I'm bouncing back and forth from one thing to another), but it takes work to, you know, work. So to suddenly get slammed with a fairly big snowstorm that keeps the family home, thereby extending their winter vacation home by another four days, isn't exactly a boon to focus. Love them, but it's a small house, and no, I don't have a dedicated,…
My first new music for 2018: “Coming Up For Air,” by m2

My first new music for 2018: “Coming Up For Air,” by m2

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This is the new m2 record, my ongoing music project focused on guitar soundscapes, drones, and dense ambiance. It's outer space music. Music to write or meditate to. The sound of ocean waves and the moons of Jupiter; of machinery at the bottom of a canyon and of being 100 feet beneath the water. I almost dropped this in the autumn of 2017, but I ended up spending quite a bit of time fussing with the third track, removing it, putting it back, fussing with it some more. Ended up using a severely shortened version of it (about 4 minutes…
m2 – a burning orange sun you can’t forget

m2 – a burning orange sun you can’t forget

Posted inMusic, Works by Eric
I recorded this in 2013 and 2014 right after I recorded Falling Back Into it, but I only pulled it together in 2016, and completely neglected to post it online until now. Think I just wasn't sure about this one. I wanted to produce a positive m2 record, one that was somehow uplifting in its sprawling drones, and this didn't fit the bill. Then life changed and I forgot to acknowledge it. But now it's posted. This is the most recent collection of m2 music, though it's NOT the latest m2 music. New material should be coming shortly, with a…