Texas based electronic composer Paris Music Corp., also known as John Andrew Paris, presents two new tracks from his ‘Ecotone’ album. “Midnight Pad” and “Sun Halos” juxtapose light with dark, mirroring how night turns to day and back again. The record stems from his relocation to his childhood home in Brownsville, South Texas, just miles from the border and the coast. Paris wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered this at Tarantula Studios over the past two years. Nature and cycles thread through the album as he takes listeners on an electronic odyssey that feels both deeply personal and geographically rooted.
“‘Midnight Pad’ was another late night writing excursion using some mind expansion influence,” Paris says. “Another piece that started with my phone and ended up with hardware synths and drum machines in the studio once it was built. And ‘Sun Halos’? Creating a song just happens sometimes. Brian Eno always talked about his main theory in that music just happens. It’s really like a magic trick sometimes when what you turn out is an earworm of a piece that is memorable.” Many pieces began on the phone app Ableton Note, allowing him to sketch ideas during late night sessions before importing them into his workstation for completion.
Originally from Austin, Paris has spent decades creating music and collaborating with artists including Arthur Brown, DJ Rev Kathy Russell, DJ Lucas Ray, Catastrophe Ballet, Le Reve, Life’s Eyes, Beast of Eden, OBOYO and Don Wigwam. His cinematic and ethereal sound shows its dark underbelly and futuristic imagination on this album. Often incorporating elements of 80’s darkwave and ambient soundscapes, his trademark approach includes heavily processed guitar and bass instruments locked into layered loops and further manipulated using software. Earlier releases from ‘Ecotone’ include “Rituals” and lead track “No Soy A.I.”, featuring Spanish vocals by fellow Texan musician RayPerez.