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alexander caruso
I live up in the hills a bit North of Asheville, NC. and mostly orient my life around creating things.. Its hard to write an artists bio though without sounding all grandiose, so I'll just mention a few of my many influences/inspirations here -- eastern sounds and themes, western myths and legends, delay pedals, a general dislike of blues and jazz, blue mountains, Chan Buddhism.
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live/dan
s o l o e c s t a t i c d a n c e s e t
Written and produced specifically for ecstatic dance communities, this series of connected compositions moves through a deeply elemental and emotional journey filled with big love and dreamy dynamics and is structured around organic sounds and themes.
The set is partially pre-produced but mostly performed with a colorful array of instruments
r i t u a l s o u n d c o - o p
I work with different ensembles drawn from a group of nine other musicians, creating different configurations depending on the type of event, whose available, etc. We specialize in a highly improvised sort of dreamy elemental exotic dance music and most often get booked for ecstatic dances, but occasionally do other ceremonial types of things as well.
contact ~ upcoming ~ video
Taylor Johnson
Kennedy Oneself
Taylor Johnson
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Audio
~ r e c o r d i n g s
I love recording and the feeling of building worlds within worlds and seem to have oriented most of my life around this fascination since discovering it as a wee little lad, I've put a few collections here and plan to eventually revive the bigger part of my unfinished or abandoned projects... someday.
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visual
v i s u a l ~
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..A few paintings and pictures from the scetchbook..
production
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~ p r o d u c t i o n
I'm interested in working with like-minded artists who want to make music from similar worlds. If you have a vision you would like to realize that could be beautified or even co-dreamed into being by my own particular magical signature, feel free to reach out My gear is pretty fancy and my studio is infused with the moodiness of the enchanted Big Ivy forest.
novels
windows in the water
people of the tree
the Aumudara
windows in the water
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w r i t i n g s ~
Tales from Ifelorum is a series of four novels I've been imagining for a long time, but only (seriously) crafting these last few years. Publication of the first two installments, "The Hunter King" and ""The Aumudara", are set for winter 2025. The stories revolve around the origions of the immortal tree, called the Sahm, and those intertwined with its destiny..
game
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~ m h a j i
This game was created long ago by the eminent Sage Sala, who was half-brother to the accursed Cero and son of Xu the wicked, a powerful king of old. As a boy he was dispossessed and alone, but found a measure of solace from the creatures of his creation, and together with them invented this whimsical game they would often play near the bank of a small stream in his hidden refuge deep in the Shastirium.
*Set for release in Winter 2025
pictures are of the prototype. Finished version will be made with stained glass, crystal, and porcelain.
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