Mother Sun

Bio:

After a myriad of manifestations, dwindling line-ups, old instruments changed and new ones learned Mother Sun represents the most concerted and fruitful effort to date of presenting the creative endeavors of Jonathan Cordle and Christopher Haynes. Finding in a collaborative format the space necessary for that presentation, Mother Sun is a symphony of simplicity. At the core are beats and melodies, later infused with lush harmonic sound-scapes seamlessly blending the jagged ambience of electronic music with the grounding hook of a great melody. Mother Sun concerns itself with intersecting collisions – melody/harmony, electronic/ acoustic, consonance/dissonance, art/life – and attempts to translate the untranslatable into a discourse of music. Music always already inhabits a state of becoming, and Mother Sun is merely a catalyst making the transmission of such a state possible. Interested in exploring the ways in which music can inhabit our lives, Mother Sun is dedicated to the authentic creation and innovative production of music, and wishes to share that interest with everyone. Booking and General Inquiry: audionoiseguru@yahoo.com ..

Member Since:

December 11, 2008

Members:

Chris Haynes and Jonathan Cordle With Jenn Costello, Nick Confer, Matt Pickart, Rachel Smith and Brett White

Influences:

Pierogies, Comic Books, Medieval Literature, Donnie Darko, Coffee

Sounds Like:

"Mother Sun, with their debut self titled EP, have altered the fundamentals of early surf pop and 1960’s AM radio by articulating beautifully dense atmospheres of ambiance and ennui. Their songs tend to materialize with an engulfing simplicity, as if they wrote them after a day at the beach on ether. Early in the EP, it becomes ruefully apparent that Mother Son exhibits an almost otherworldy ability to focus on the negative space their instruments and vocals have left behind to create songs with infinite depth. Echo, reverb, and some synth drone frequently fill in the absences after the distorted, yet oddly sunny, guitars make their exit... With each song basking in layers of emotion and mood, it wasn’t easy for me to shake them off. But I have a feeling that’s exactly the point. Mother Sun enjoy pulling their songs away gracefully early, causing the gradual crash for the listener after after such lush sensory experience. After all, what is the value of the “high” if you never come down." - Speed of Sound

Record Label:

Discos Unherd-Uf