Forever Meditations, by Michael Gary Dean

Forever Meditations

by Michael Gary Dean

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1.	Truthtrance 04:18	buy track
2.	Drag Your Feet and Avoid Eye Contact 04:57	buy track
3.	Sinking Deeper Into Desperation 03:55	buy track
4.	Mirror in Mirror 07:04	buy track
5.	Staying in the Same Place 06:39	buy track
6.	Now Would Be a Good Time to Stop Watching the News 05:45	buy track
7.	Semblance of the Invisible 05:57	buy track
8.	I Thought Last Time Was the Last Time 05:36	buy track
9.	An Illustrated Story 06:50	buy track
10.	And Now, Before I Go 07:04	buy track
11.	The Scent of Early Memories 06:13	buy track

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Collaborating with musicians across numerous genres and artistic styles, Michael Gary Dean’s FOREVER MEDITATIONS merges flowing ambient electronics with intimate instrumentation, drawing on reflective moods and long moments of deliberation. Organic and highly textural electronics simmer underneath delicate melodies and hovering tones from double bass, violin or piano.

Taking moderate influence from traditions like 'Deep Listening', FOREVER MEDITATIONS seems to have embraced a uniquely Canadian musical landscape that's been slowly defined by a myriad of drone artists and ambient music makers alongside neo-classical composers and instrumentalists. With artists like Loscil, Sarah Davachi, Kara-Lis Cloverdale or Tim Hecker as a backdrop, FOREVER MEDITATIONS is the soundtrack to elongated moments for reflection while enduring the long and harsh Canadian winters.

“We lean especially into creating ‘raw moments’ in our process, capturing ideas as soon as they come out in order to express a sense of vulnerability and reject the hyper-perfection of today's digital realities. It's a reaction to a world spent indoors, on screens, and online in carefully curated digital spaces, especially emphasized during the Covid-19 pandemic between 2019-2022. We explicitly use 'detuning' as a way to create and encourage tension and uneasiness in many of the tracks. Since there are so few notes and the themes are based on the feeling of electronic music-style ‘loops’, a desire for some sort of resolution is present within the individual notes and through delaying the movement from one note to the next within the melodies, themes and musical sequences of the work.

Many of these pieces are meant to be experienced as ‘listening states’ rather than a complete story. They blur our sense of time and encourage a space of self-reflection for ruminating over old memories or emotions.." --- Michael Gary Dean

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released July 21, 2023

Produced by Michael Gary Dean

Composition: Michael Gary Dean, Freddy Speer
Double bass, Voice: Freddy Speer
Piano: Michael Gary Dean, Gabriel Vinuela-Pelletier
Violin: Amanda Gibeau

Additional sound recordings: Christian Carrière
Mastering: Taylor Deupree [12k Mastering]

Released by Reclusive Strategies

The creation of this work was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

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Michael Gary Dean Montreal, Québec

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Michael Gary Dean is a Canadian composer and media artist who straddles both the avant-garde edges of digital art and the more traditional veins of classical music.

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