biographical info
A Quiet End began as a seed within another musical project some years ago. Previously there were film scores, unheard works, tossed away recordings and many things gone unfinished in an ongoing journey of fits and starts, ups and downs, hills to climb and corners turned, before finally taking clearer shape more recently as a steady force for unabashedly pursuing long-stirring creative visions and ideas. Primarily a musical vehicle, in time it will extend beyond this, becoming a place where any number of things can happen.
Released in Janurary 2012, 'Past Fragments' is a collection of semi-improvised minimal piano works. Tiny pieces that were conceived around loose melodic ideas or vague notions of ‘character’ and then captured immediately as they were written with little attention paid to production or perfection, in some cases fully extemporized as they were laid down. Recorded over the course of a few days, they imbibed the essence of the moments they emerged from. They are presented here, lo-fi and sparkling, with all of their inherent fragility, ephemera and imperfections intact.
The EP was self-produced; made on a hodgepodge of aging technology, created to stretch the bounds of hope during uncertain times. Bigger sounding than the environment of its tiny birth, it is the first imperfect crystallization of a long-standing creative reverie, wishing only to attain greater realization.