Oliver Giving

** In The Hearts Of Seeds is my first full length album, in collaboration with Madam Roar, and can be listened to on my Releases page **

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In the Hearts of Seeds is distinctive folk music coming together with experimental sounds, arrangements and production techniques.  Right from the beginning we set out to successfully integrate folk music and electronic music.  We are referring to the results as Trip Folk.  A brand new genre perhaps?

The making of the album was a truly creative process.  We allowed ourselves to be open to some far out ideas.  For example, all of the percussion in Heavy Pockets is composed of rocks striking each other or bags of rocks being shaken around.  This song totally rocks as a result!  Another example comes in Oh My Love: the percussive elements here are built of short samples of water dropping into a cave.

My work on this album amounted to at least 500 hours.  It is the first album that I’ve produced and I got to put into practice everything that I learned in music production school which I completed not too long ago.  I made some mistakes during the process and had to go back and redo a number of things, but this is a positive factor as it meant a deeper understanding of my field.  In this way, In the Hearts of Seeds represents a professional coming of age for me.  I am very grateful for this.

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