tom eaton music / sounds & substance April 2024 News |
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Spring is sort of sproinging here in New England and I've been deep in several projects in the last couple of months... here's the latest: |
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The new website, the first one that combines the two halves of who I am professionally, is finally live. TomEaton.net integrates the content from all my old sites* into a cohesive whole and adds a store, a much more complete mastering discography, and (finally!) some FAQs (and answers) on the mastering side of things. I'm thrilled to have it up and running at long last! Check it out! |
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The design team used a number of horizontally scrolling elements to keep the page lengths down while still maintaining a lot of content. In one small vertical section (like the above) we have dozens of reviews that can be read by scrolling across. Love it! *thomaseaton.com, universalnoisestorage.com, abendromen.com, tomeatonmusic.com, imaginaryroadmastering.com, riverwiderecords.com, soundsandsubstance.com... what's wrong with me?? |
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NEW RELEASES MASTERED HERE |
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| | Ever So by David Lindsay. Recorded and mixed by Bill Esses. Mastered here. | | |
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| | The 5 Senses by Carl Lord. Recorded and mixed by Carl Lord. Mastered here. | | |
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| | The Gift by Kristen Miller and Alise Ashby. I recorded, mixed and mastered this one. | | |
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| | Seven Conversations, the new album with Jeff Oster and Vin Downes, is now available for pre-order, and the first two singles are available to listen to now! | | |
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| | "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."- Annie Dillard "The Days Fall Away" is my latest deep immersion one-hour environment. | | |
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| | "Traces" picks up where weathering left off. A partial homage to the gorgeous Danna/Clement album North from Niagara, the track ponders the markers left behind as time passes. | | |
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The third single from Seven Conversations, "Words Overheard," comes out April 5th. |
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Several years ago, a Bandcamp fan wrote to me asking for longer versions of my long ambient songs. I obliged and started putting hour-long versions of specific pieces he requested on Bandcamp. I called them "audio environments" because the music, when I get it right, offers a sense of space: a real or imagined place to spend time. Over time my approach to making this kind of music has changed, and I've been really happy with the last several environments in particular. "The Days Fall Away" is the 21st hour-long piece I've made, but none of these long pieces has ever been set free of the Bandcamp world... until now. The Hours collects five of these hour-long excursions into one (yes, five hour) album, stream-able on April 1st on all the music platforms. It's excellent music for slowing down your heart rate and clearing your mind. I hope you enjoy spending time in these little worlds I've made out of music. |
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I continue to play on a LOT of records. Synth, bass, guitars, accordion... heck, I've played autoharp and jaw harp on albums. Some recent work caught on film below... |
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| | Finished up my accordion overdubs on Kathryn Kaye's upcoming album this week! |
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| | Up close with Ryan Judd as I lay down bass on his new single. Also added electric guitars and keys. |
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| | Going deep into synth world working on overdubs for Masako's new album. |
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Speaking of which... Neil Tatar's "Nightwalker" (reimagined by me) is now available! I play keys, bass, electric guitar, and percussion on this new track based on Neil's "Nightwalk" song. I also handled the arrangement, mixing, and mastering. |
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| | ghosts came out on April 1st, 2023. This is the work of mine that I listen to the most. Short, melodic, piano driven stories about people, places, and things that are no longer. | | |
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| | verloren came out on April 1st, 2022. It's a set of darker imaginary places that sits outside my normal "natural world" ambient tendencies. | | |
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| | shades of fog also came out on April 1st, 2022. I've always adored the way fog obscures the familiar, and this album sits in the mist and imagines what's beyond it. | | |
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This is newsletter number thirty of 426 or so (depending on the actuarial table you consult), and I am very thankful to you for tuning in to the words here, to my music, and to the music I help shepherd into the world.
Bandcamp remains the best spot to find my music, but of course I'm available in all the usual places...
Thanks, as always, for listening... it really means so much to me!
Please share the newsletter and music with friends you think would like it, and stay in touch!
More to come soon! |
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