“You can drop in or leave,” says Davis. “That's why I wanted to do it there. I felt like it was a good way to bring it to the public some more. The whole idea for all of us is to bring it to people who don't know what it's about.”
Davis grew up in the Colorado Springs area, but moved to California and to Seattle in the late '80s and played trumpet in a variety of experimental bands over the years. In 2004, he debuted Textures at a coffee shop called the Living Room, where it ran for six months before he moved back to Colorado in 2005.
His wife,
Davis caught a four-hour ambient session by electronic group Mondo Obscura at Mutiny in 2014, and it inspired him to approach Jim Norris about setting up the event. A year later, it's still running strong.
For this weekend's anniversary show, Davis is bringing in synth prodigy
“I'd been wanting to do a pure ambient album that's really mellow for a long time,” says Davis. “It's scientifically designed to be a meditative, relaxation type of album. It's three tracks...the first is: you get home and you've had your day and you need to relax a bit. It kind of incorporates a general heartbeat pulse of where you would be and chaotic thoughts that resolve a little bit over the time of the album.
"The second track is like you're relaxed and then you're getting ready for bed. The third track is: You're ready for bed and you want to sleep. It actually worked. It took me a long time to master and produce it because I would nod off. I recorded it seven or eight years ago today and I didn't add anything because I tried to get the objective perspective on how I wanted to present it, as smooth, presentable and no sharp edges. The goal is to at least get you to be able to relax or meditate.”
Certainly the music showcased at Textures is often meditative and soothing, but the sheer diversity of the
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