Born in 1977, I felt in love with music pretty much from the beginning of my conscious life I guess - many of my very early childhood memories actually relate to music I've heard.
So some time in my early teenage years, I got in contact with the music of artists like Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream - which was kind of mind-opening to me. I knew I wanted to do something like this myself!
"Dreams Of The Blue Planet" basically is one of the first outcomes of this desire.
The tracks on the CD vary in style - there's some more song like pieces and there's also more atmospheric tracks... but just listen for yourself - there's a preview for every track on the CD.
One thing I'm always looking for in my music (and the music I'm listening to, by the way) are strong melodies. I listen to every style of music, as long as it has a good melody - and so I try to compose good melodies myself for all my tracks (drop me an e-mail to let me know if it worked out! ;-)
Oh yeah, some of the tracks were used in a school play of The Little Prince some years ago - where I've got some very nice feedback from the kids actually...
There also was a review of the CD in the swiss magazine "Spuren" (translated from german):
"There's certainly enough synth sounds that surf on the wave of superficiality.
It doesn't happen that often that a production stands out because of its composition or a certain mood. Ancient Mind: Dreams Of The Blue Planet has got that special something: catchy melodies, relaxing atmosphere..."
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