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Man Watching the Stars
12+ albums
ambientviolinexperimentalcelticClassical
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Man Watching the Stars is Brendan Paxton, an experimental violinist based in southwest Ohio. Paxton creates his music almost entirely with the acoustic violin to craft layers of expressive drones and textures. He is strongly influenced by the late Martyn Bennett (d. 2005), ambient artist Alexandre Navarro, and fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh. Debuting in 2010 with "One Minute for the Sun" on French label SEM Label, Paxton has released ambient works around the world: for Indian label The Future Elements and English label Rural Colours (hibernate). Additionally, Paxton has scored a variety of noteworthy films: "This Side" (2014, Poland, dir. Alex Casianov), "Six Months to Salvation" (2016, Australia, dir. Lorenzo Benitez), and "The Day After I'm Gone" (2020, Israel, dir. Nimrod Eldar). Self-released on his own label, CIÙIN, Paxton's "Dusk" was awarded "Album of the Month" for January 2015 by critically-acclaimed music magazine, textura (textura.org, Canada). User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
