Mid-Life Acid, by James Bernard

Mid-Life Acid

by James Bernard

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SURREALDREAMS Beautiful tracks on this album! Thank you for this James! Favorite track: A Gentle Approach.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Mid-Life Acid, Digging Through The DAT Tapes Vol.2 - Acid, IDM and Breaks, Digging Through The DAT Tapes Vol.1 - Techno, Trance and Rave, Departing in Descent, a sliver of silver, Live at FOFN Presents 1440 (Los Angeles, CA 2017), Live at Converge 2.0 | Los Angeles 1-16-2016, Lost Time Archives, and 12 more. , and , .

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1.	Order From Chaos 03:02	buy track
2.	Finding Peace 02:57	buy track
3.	A Gentle Approach 04:40	buy track
4.	Resistance And Suffering 03:40	buy track
5.	Diffusion 02:56	buy track
6.	History Repeating 03:02	buy track
7.	Facing Fears 04:30	buy track
8.	Dopamine 03:16	buy track
9.	Wonder 02:52	buy track
10.	Sunrise 06:14	buy track

about

In August of 2023 I was working through some complex emotions surrounding my firstborn child moving away from home, being in my 50's (hence the name Mid-Life Acid) and the realization of how easy it is to allow fears to consume us.

While pondering this, I found myself drawn to the one instrument that has been with me on my entire musical journey, my beloved old Roland TB-303. I have spent countless years of my life exploring all the different emotions I could coax out of this magical silver box, but this time felt different and more cathartic than I can explain in words.

When I initially wrote these pieces they were sparse and did not have any drums. The only instrument used to create every melodic sound was the TB-303 using different approaches, including playing pads by swelling individual notes into a looper pedal to build chords! After listening to these ideas for a couple of months, I felt they needed something to give them more impact and decided to explore different rhythmic structures and drums.

Everything you hear on these songs that is not a drum/percussion sound, is my TB-303 and guitar pedals (Microcosm, Mood MK2, Big Sky, Zoia, El Capistan).

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released March 3, 2024

All songs performed, produced, mixed and mastered by James Bernard

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Photography by Cynthia Bernard

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ambient and electronic since 1994

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