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prelude to the lost years

from weathering by tom eaton

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"prelude to the lost years" and “the lost years”

I guess the story begins in 2015. A dream had fallen apart, I was sleeping on the floor of my studio, essentially homeless…making records for people during the day and spending my nights making the music that became my first two albums. I lacked the ability to understand how I ended up where I was, and music seemed to be the only truth I had access to. I had no capacity for thinking or words, all I could find was raw emotion. I spent years broken in that moment, stuck right there until I could get quiet enough to hear nature calling me back to my childhood. The ocean, and then the wind, and then the trees slowly changed me. And eventually, a single sunrise in 2019 put me right.
I take videos of my piano improvisations, which is where all my pieces seem to begin. Vangelis said that he acted as a channel through which music emerged, and it’s the same for me. I don’t really feel like I write these pieces... they just seem to show up when my energy is right (or wrong in the right way). This improv first arrived on March 26, 2020, and I recorded the piano part immediately afterward. My son Huck played the strummed guitars in the choruses two days later. I still smile every time I hear them. The prelude arrived in 2022… when I had some perspective on the time that had passed.

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from weathering, released August 4, 2023
Written, performed, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Tom Eaton at Universal Noise Storage in Newburyport, MA, and Sounds & Substance in East Kingston, NH, between 2018 and 2022

Piano, basses, guitars, synthesizers, accordion, and percussion by Tom Eaton

Cover photo by Tom Eaton

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tom eaton New Hampshire

Best New Age Album Grammy Nominee, and award winning musician, composer, and producer.

"Lush, shadowed, emotional music that’s rich in harmonies and oceanic layers and…so deliciously slow.”
-Ambient Music Guide

“A piano sound to lust after, immersed in a suggestive, gauzy world of beautifully wrought electronics and guitar loops”
-Tim Story ... more

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