Collin Thomas brings so much of life into his music. To him, the two are inextricably linked, influencing and inspiring each other. So for him, composing music is a medium for contemplation and making sense of time, life, people, self, and death. The artist has just released a sixteen part collection called ‘The Gauze Eyed Gaze Of Bracketed Air’; an album that he describes as chapters in a book. Each one delves into specific frames of thought, consciousness and subconsciousness. It gets into the masks that people wear when they don’t want people to know the truth; and how it all unravels in the context of diseases like dementia and other memory warping diseases. 

Introducing the collection is ‘Early Onset’, the first phase of dementia coming on. He marks the experience with dots of melody, slightly inflected. Against an empty backdrop that is sometimes serene, sometimes eerie, he recreates the blurring edges of life. There’s so much elegance to this composition in that it says so much with such less. The artist has a wealth of wisdom that travel along in the spaces between the melodic piano characters that travel along like dust in the early morning sunshine. Dazed and stuck in a state of static movement. Listen Now! 

The track is available for streaming on popular sites like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and Amazon Music! 

You can listen to ‘Early Onset’ by Collin Thomas here –