Verian Thomas - Massive

Behind every doorway, within or without, the place containing those things Verian Thomas titles "Massive" awaits. To enter it, one only need believe it is there. Within, light and dark are physical entities but the traditional rules of the good cowboy in the black hat and the bad in the black do not apply. Each is as flawed as the other. One must choose the right one to trust at the right moment to find the doorway that leads home. No fantasy made real, but instead the mind's own exultation and panic made light and shadow. If a firefly of the mind is a gas furnace of the flesh, then the flame burns no less brightly.

Massive alternates fear and jubilation in an adventure of the sort in which one is alone for the first time amid new discoveries. The resulting sounds prompt simplistic emotions ranging from fear of the dark to the relief at finding light. There are forests involved and running to and from unimagined friends and foes When all the words and ideas and "hot brain" notions are left behind, the remaining spaces between the sounds are, indeed, massive.

Massive, as with his prior release "Miniatures", utilises ambient washes of a single, oft-patched
Fender Telecaster. In "Massive", though, there is no Ramones-like brevity required of the songs,
but instead a comfortable, if not quite literally massive, wash of sound permeates each.

In life, the successful first take of anything is often the best one--and "Massive" adopts this fanciful notion as a working device. We invite you to discover those small, massive places within. This single piece broken into eight silence-punctuated sections is intended to entertain, and to soundtrack the wanderings of your massive mind.

Individual 128kbps Downloads:

Massive Pt. 1 (Doorways) has been downloaded 1221 times
Massive Pt. 2 (Firefly Dance) has been downloaded 958 times
Massive Pt. 3 (Running To The Light Circle) has been downloaded 832 times
Massive Pt. 4 (Temporary Loss Of Direction) has been downloaded 1001 times
Massive Pt. 5 (Shadows Between Streetlights) has been downloaded 869 times
Massive Pt. 6 (Then They Came Looking) has been downloaded 665 times
Massive Pt. 7 (Sun Through Storm) has been downloaded 761 times
Massive Pt. 8 (Hill Run Home) has been downloaded 685 times



"These tracks are released under Creative Commons and as such are available for remix. Below is a link to download a sample pack containing sections of the following tracks: Firefly Dance & Sun Through Storm.

A second sample pack has been added containing samples at 320 bpm of Shadows Between Streetlights and Running For The Light Circle. If you do choose to use the sample packs for anthing please do let me know as I'd like to hear what is done with them."

Verian Thomas

Massive Sample Pack 1 - 22mb
Massive Sample Pack 2 - 70mb