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Artist
Tyler Burkhart
12+ albums
Lo-FiAllindieshoegazedream pop
about
Growing up on a Mount Joy farm, Tyler Burkhart found inspiration in the wide open fields of his backyard. He especially admired the purity of those untouched expanses after a snowfall. “It was nice just to be able to see out across this landscape and have just kind of a spiritual awareness of how small you are,” Burkhart says. At the same time, he realized how much impact his environment was having on him. Now nostalgic for his time on the farm, Burkhart often uses those memories to make music. Despite an impressive repertoire — 20 albums uploaded to his Bandcamp page since 2012 — Burkhart didn’t begin writing music seriously until he was in his early 20s. Graduating from Hempfield High School in 2007, he took a year off to figure out his next move. He attended HACC sporadically before studying social work at Millersville University, where he earned both bachelor’s and master’s degrees. During this transitional period, Burkhart wrote music, using a microphone his brother Clark gave him. He had played piano and guitar throughout his youth, hobbies encouraged by his musically inclined parents. “I think it was just kind of a way to find my voice and figure out a little more about who I was as a person,” Burkhart says. While he is not on the farm anymore, his environment is still of utmost importance to how he creates. Burkhart self-records all of his music in his Lancaster city bedroom. And he embraces what others may perceive as imperfections when they seep into his re
