Roadside Sketches by Art Sonic Art Sonic : Roadside Sketches.
 Acoustic guitar folktronica with elements of ambient atmospheric americana.

A 3-week long road trip to the American Southwest (Toronto, Canada to Colorado, Utah and New Mexico USA). Good thing I managed to take my old beat-up acoustic guitar - even though there was little spaced for it in our tightly packed truck. Big prairie skies, Rocky Mountain panoramas, desert vistas, ghost towns and ancient Anasazi ruins, all inspired me to pick up the guitar and attempt to translate sights into notes. Little 'roadside sketches'...

My trusty little field recorder allowed me to actually capture some of the nature sounds which later, back home in my studio, got incorporated into some of the tracks. Hopefully these short musical pieces will evoke the feelings and re-create the sights I had in front of me.

Songs:

1. Morning mist over Rock Creek
2. Garden of the Gods
3. Eleven Mile Canyon
4. Buffalos
5. Buena Vista Colorado
6. Western exposure
7. Watching the rain
8. St Elmo
9. Rocky Mountain high
10. Something in the air
11. Old Deer Trail
12. Prospect Mountain
13. Lonesome road

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Release date: 05/31/2019
Art Sonic lives in Toronto Ontario Canada

Tagged as: Ambient, Folk, Downtempo, Instrumental Ambient, Acoustic Guitar, Daydreaming

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