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6 tracks | 42 minutes
Released May 2007
on Amorfus Music
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 06:10 Continents Adrift BUY MP3 06:10 Continents Adrift "GIFT MP3" 06:10 Continents Adrift
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- sample "DOWNLOAD" 05:24 Amorphous Worlds I BUY MP3 05:24 Amorphous Worlds I "GIFT MP3" 05:24 Amorphous Worlds I
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Ambient, atmospheric, and minimalist compositions built upon warm, meandering, flowing textures, darker drones, and light ethereal, spacious soundscapes.
Bio / Background
On the Southwest Florida Gulfcoast, a new musician is making a splash in the ambient, space music scene with a debut album. Phillip Wilkerson has released his first project, Amorphous Worlds, a musical journey through spacious, swirling atmospheres. Sometimes dark and moody and other times light and ethereal, Wilkerson's atmospheric and minimalist-inspired approach weaves a soundscape around the listener's ears, creating an evolving, submersive sonic experience.
"I have an appetite for atmospheric, spartan, and minimalist music that meanders and swirls around in the listener's mind," says Wilkerson. "For years I've listened to artists like Brian Eno, Jon Serrie, and Steve Roach, and over time, I've developed a style of similar ambient space music, but in a more amorphous, unstructured, and contemplative style. Although I do use virtual instruments and designed sounds, I also like to include sprinkles of piano, choruses, and orchestra.
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"At the same time, my music can also function as low-volume background pieces for art galleries and planetariums, or creating a non-intrusive musical atmosphere in your own home."
Phillip Wilkerson began playing piano at age 5 and guitar at age 14. Influenced by his grandmother's and his great-grandmother's musicianship and his immediate family's collection of jazz, rock, and classical record collections, Phillip grew up immersed in great music, secular and sacred.
His great-grandmother both played, and composed for, ragtime piano. She taught Phillip the rudiments of music and piano, and by age 6, Phillip was attentively listening, and often, figuring out how to play some of what he heard by ear.
"And my grandmother had a Lowry organ. One of those with a split keyboard and panel of myriad sound manipulation switches and rhythms. It was my first hands-on introduction to electronically generated sounds." As a child, he often spent weekends at her house, listening to her play church hymns on the organ and studying the music instruction books she shared with him. In fact, church a-capella music and four-part vocal harmonies mesmerized Phillip and he actively participated in his grade school and high school choruses.
Around the age of 25, Phillip acquired his first Roland MIDI keyboard and a Korg synthesizer. He began experimenting, musically, with abstract, ambient, and atmospheric ideas and sounds, primarily for the pure love of experimentation.
By late 2005, the power and realism of virtual, sampled instruments had reached near-perfection. Phillip embraced virtual synthesizers and abandoned the pursuit of hardware-based sound design. By the end of 2006, he was recording and sharing his own compositions.
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