Bellingham-based ambient electronic solo artist Jeads has released his new album entitled Under the Veneer. The ten-track album displays the talent and passion by this ambient electro-house solo artist

The album was inspired on March 2019, by a giant snowstorm in Bellingham, Washington. Just finishing recording his previous album, Nocturnal Signal and wanted to expand to other horizons using sounds from filed recordings and making his own sample-based instruments. The snowstorm inspired many field recording sessions which ended in the construction of a set of sample-based percussive instruments. Going on many hikes during the snow-covered forests around his home, capturing environmental sounds with fresh snow falling off terms, snowballs pounding on frozen steel doors, fallen tree limbs snapping in the ice-cod air, icicles breaking. A beautiful backdrop the album, all of the samples have a frozen crispness to every track.

The main instrument on the album is an old rusty music box. It has a rich harmonic resonant sound but it's also broken and vulnerable. Each track tells a story creating a musical storybook which is Under the Veneer, Jeads showcases his throughout the entire album. Under the Veneer is out now and is available to buy/stream.

“I dug deep into found sound field recording work on this album. The main instrument, a sampled old rusty music box I've had for years, provided a lot of the harmonic and emotive inspiration. All of the rhythmic and percussive sounds on the album come from a set of field recordings I took after a giant snowstorm in March of 2019.”

Under the Veneer started with a giant snow storm in Bellingham, Washington, in March of 2019. I had just finished recording Nocturnal Signal and wanted to dig deeper into using sounds from field recordings and making my own sample based instruments. The snow storm inspired many field recording sessions which ended in the construction of a set of sample-based percussive instruments. I went on many hikes in the snow-covered forests around my house, capturing environmental sounds with my field recorder: fresh snow falling off ferns, snow balls pounding on frozen steel doors, footsteps crunching, fallen tree limbs snapping in the ice cold air, icicles breaking. This set the backdrop for the album; all of the samples have a kind of frozen crispness to them, frozen soundscapes from the forest. I’ve come to see the relationships between the samples as important as any individual sound. The time, location, season, and my relationship with the sounds contributes enormously to the emotional impact of the sample collection. The main instrument on the album is an old rusty music box. It has a rich harmonic resonant sound but it’s also broken and vulnerable. It’s attached to a painting I've had for many years, one that has moved around with me many times. It has hung on the walls in both broken and loving homes and has become a symbol of how important having a peaceful place to call home really is. The painting and the music box represents a complex sense of home for me. A lot of the themes on this album were inspired by that concept; scratch a bit of veneer off the surface and you can often find something twisted and complicated underneath. Enjoy. Released February 7, 2020 Mastered by Taylor Dupree at 12k. Graphic design by Aleksandar Veselić and Dragana Veselić.