In The Branches

Would you attend a "Loop Madness" event in your hometown?

Most of the songs from Live Moments Vol. 1 were recorded at Loop Madness events around Portland. It was a low-key community event that lasted at least a few good years, mixing the concept of an Open Mic Night with a requirement that the music must be based on live-looping.

I'm considering bringing this idea back. Here's an improvised song from one 2015 Loop Madness event which I later named, "Waking Up In The Universe":

https://theadaptive.bandcamp.com/track/waking-up-in-the-universe-the-tardis-room-2015

Waking Up in the Universe (The TARDIS Room 2015), by In The Branches from the album Live Moments Vol. 1

"The Forever Kind" might be my most ethereal and ghostly album. It was created as minimalist music for sleeping or half-dreaming (hypnogogic state), but here, there's a sense of vast, cold space lurking around every corner. I kept it mostly a secret for the past decade, for some reason. Maybe it was too personal or I just forgot. Now when I hear that incredible Fender American Select Telecaster (which was stolen from me in a robbery in 2017), I'm so glad to have these songs. That guitar was one of a kind and this music has something deep going on, which I still don't understand.

The album is officially released everywhere with new cover artwork made from photos taken on an overnight trip through Montana and Wyoming. The black & white photos were taken in Oregon. ♾️