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Artist
Holmes Ives
12+ albums
loungeambientdowntempoelectronicjazz step
about
In the beginning - It was summer, Ives was seven and he was to find himself on the second floor of his mothers friends house while they were having tea one story below. He began to explore and he stumbled upon a piano in one of the back rooms. Curious he set his hands upon the keys and began to experiment. Coming back any chance he had he began to find music in the notes, "I remember this feeling welling up inside me". Seeing this relationship with the piano prompted his mother to put him into lessons and was he classically trained for the next seven years. Classics to the Underground (post \perceptual outer dimensions[/artist/] - It didn't take long until Ives picked up a bass guitar and joined with a friend who played keyboards and sang. For the next 10 years Ives found himself playing and performing with many alternative bands. Ives began composing many of the songs they performed he also learned synthesis and with a four track recorder and an effects box he forged a style of "audio sculpturing" that he carries with him to this day. A move to center - With the aquisition of a home studio, Ives made a move towards inner solo explorations, mixing found sounds with beats and synthesizer melodies, sequencing them on a computer and then rinsing it with effects. Perceptual Outer Dimensions (POD) was born and he titled this sequence of songs "The Journey to Planet POD". This album was signed to Washington D.C.'s Fifth Column Records. He followed this release with a second sol
