Music and Melodies
Count Derek: It's like Classic Rock meets Indie
When people ask me what kind of music I play, I have a difficult time trying to define it. I think it sounds like everything you’ve ever heard, while sounding not quite like anything you’ve ever heard. There isn’t any process I follow to writing or making music, although I will say that I don’t think I write any of it. I think it is just putting pieces together that are out there in some kind of abstract, audible ether of sorts. I tend to just go where it seems to float and match up relevant lyrics to the sounds–whether they are pre-written or written as the music progresses. This music is like therapy to me. I work a lot of things out through it. I can say the things I think or feel in a way I can control–whether in word or melody. My hope is that some of these words and melodies can find their way to that someone that needs to hear them at just the right time–just like so many words and melodies have found me just when I needed them.
It's Kind of Like
Full Album: The Tides of Spacetime
The Tides of Spacetime is a concept album I put together around a theme of self discovery and making peace with the past, peace with God, and hope going forward. In the lyrics, the puzzles of my life are addressed and the solutions that I found the most plausible are revealed. The album centers around my own world view–how it was, how it has changed, and how it may look going forward. It uses the concept of Albert Einstein’s General Relativity as a metaphoric frame of reference to illustrate that our entire world views are relative to our experiences and biases. We think we know the answers, we think we operate in facts, but in reality the things we think we know are completely dependent upon our own preconceptions. All we really have, though, is faith because we cannot know the answers for certain. No matter what one believes or what one does, it is done by faith or by an absence of faith. Whatever you make your faith, make it a good one.