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Makeshift Battlefield: Psychedelic Electronic Music Imported Exclusively From the Groove Kingdom For Your Personal Enjoyment.

My name is Gabrial Holmes.  In the summer of 2005 I aquired a Kimball Superstar Electronic Organ and started recording everything I played. I wrote dozens of instrumental songs that i recorded on my Tascam four track recorder. Over my first two years of songwriting I filled over 30 cassette tapes of original songs played only with that organ, a 90s drum machine, and a microphone. In the early months of 2007 I overcame a period of severe depression and wrote 9 songs that became 'Celluettes', a chronicle of that painful turning point in my life. This album was created almost entirely with my MIDI keyboard and some percussion samples a friend gave me. Immediatly after I finished that project I began a more optomistic piece titled 'Subsonic Dreammachine', which was a dramatic collection of psychedelic songs that used complicated dark emotional imagery that i'm sure no one really understands. After a short period of writer's block, in 2008, I began to mix my organ with my electronic programming and wrote 'The Free Album', which was at some points angry, others sad, but most of the time detached from people's perception of me as a person. I write when I am incredibly moved by something, and most of the time that something is very painful. However, the experiences I drew from in creation of this album are a mixture of memories from the past and things that were occuring at that time. I printed 100 copies of this album and handed them out at Blissfest. Once I started going back to college, I wrote a lot of songs that were reflective of day to day events and my personal history. This 'album' was titled 'Garden', however, really it is just a collection of around 30 songs i wrote at that time. Most of my music is only heard by my friends and family, and even then, there are songs I've written, played, and recorded that only I have heard. In 2009, I began to write some intense shit. I started to become more personal in how I write. Each line of each song was written to mean something, sometimes different than how someone would hear it themself. I began to stop worrying about how my music was interpreted, because I realized that no one really listened to it anyway. When I got past that point, I realised it didn't matter how it was interpreted even if people DID actually listen to it. They would interpret it their own way and apply it to their life because they really don't know me or why I wrote those songs in the first place. This collection was called 'OH! What An Eyesore!' and was made available on my soundclick page in 2009. I then took some of these songs and reworked them throughout the early months of 2010 but after getting a few of them to where I wanted I decided to start a new project. This project was untitled, but included songs that were a mixture of memories, present experiences, and things i've witnessed in other people. After working for seven months writing and developing these songs I chose a few to be on my newest album. This album is titled 'Makeshift Battlefield'. The Makeshift Battlefield album is my first collection of songs for the year 2010, and will certainly be a turning point in my songwriting. I am getting better at every aspect of writing, producing, recording, engineering, mixing, and mastering. I've learned how to do this all on my own just through years of trying. At times I feel like it is all for nothing. That no one really thinks of my songs the way I do, that they don't mean anything to anyone else but myself. But, then I realise that someday I will have grandchildren, and they will find a box full of everything i've created. It does not matter to me if you don't appreciate my music. I only make it available so that people who can appreciate it will find it. And if no one does- i will still be happy, because it is a recording of my life, and it will last far longer than i will.

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