Offthesky

Offthesky (Jason Corder) has been making strange and exciting electronic music sometime's considered "ambient" for a while now. Born in 1977, he remembers experimenting on the piano at a very early age - to the chagrin of his parents. His dive into the world of electronic music occurred when he began recording music for videogames and the local radio show that played a plethora of new music in the early 90s. He then began hacking away on multitrack recorders and later upgraded to using more advanced techniques. His passion for acoustic instruments of all kinds has naturally led him to integrate them into his own compositions.
about the moniker, or why offthesky?

off the sky was the original version but much later jason decided to simplify and evolve the phrase by truncating the spaces to forming an even more unique morpheme. originally the idea of the truncation was in order that solo projects could exist and be released under the offthesky iteraton and group based projects could use the off the sky version - however this quickly became confusing for labels, the fans, and the scene in general so jason has since decided to simplify and go minimal with the latest evolution of 'offthesky.


Offthesky
Jason Corder + Opium - Thepresentday

Artist: Jason Corder + Opium
P: 2006
Opium drones and ethnic elements are interwoven with Jason Corder's percussive minimalism to create a flowing long-form work of seven fascinating movements.

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Offthesky + Man Watching the Stars - Afar,Farwell

Artist: Offthesky + Man Watching the Stars
P: 2012
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Afar, Farewell is Offthesky joined by experimental violinist Brendan Paxton aka Man Watching the Stars for what is put simply one of the most breathtakingly moving albums we've ever released at Rural Colours. Unlike a lot of albums in the ambient genre this one is far from the usual background music with a variety of instrumentation and the disposition to engage in a more earthly, melodic, stucture. Afar Farewell supplies five gorgeous tracks of slowly evolving melody on a soft bed of processed guitar, molten strings and Offthesky's deep and quirky signatures.

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Offthesky - Endless Yonder

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2010
LTD 100
Dreamy desert guitar ambient in the western style.

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Offthesky - Gently down the Stream

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2005
Jason Corder, recording as off the sky, has released an album that expertly blends the warm textural melodicism of flowing ambient music with the beats, clicks, pops, and effects from the glitch and laptop subgenres. The composite result is an album which brims with imaginative sophistication, a multi-hued affair that rewards the listener as layer after layer of smooth beauty intermixed with computer-controlled rhythms is revealed slowly and deliciously.

A flowing collection of sophisticated and glitchy rhythmic ambient. "I consider Gently Down The Stream one of the best in the glitch/laptop subgenre since the turn of the century." Bill Binkelman

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Offthesky - Hiding Nature

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2010
This album is obviously an Offthesky record, with its minute attention to detail and its beautiful, often creeping, sometimes sporadic, bursts of melody. Essentially Jason’s plan was to make an album of heavily processed vibraphone pieces, yet it became so much more featuring clever use of warbly guitar tones and textures throughout, and incredible haunting vocal arrangements on ‘Frozen Fountain’, for example. It ranges from the melodic brilliance of ‘Hand Held Lightly’ to the more experimental playfulness of ‘Clockwort’, from the guitar chords mixed with bleeps of melody on ‘Little Subtle Secret’ to the delicately processed vibraphone of ‘Rest But Not Least’.Its a complete listening experience by one of the most talented producers around today, an astonishing record and the most fun I have heard in melodious experimentation in some time, maybe ever. As Jason himself says, ‘Enjoy this with your nearest breathing thing’

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Offthesky - It Is Impossible To Say Just What I Mean

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2005
The whole time you listen to these songs, you find yourself both lulled and befuddled. Lulled by the serene drifts of sound, but befuddled as to how these mercurial sounds manage to come together. What’s more, the sounds become such that you find yourself wondering if what you’re hearing actually exists at all, or if it’s just some stray overtone, or the echoes of some pattern or fragment you just missed.

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Offthesky - Subtle Trees

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2011
As a sort of pantheist, or at least an artist who finds great stories hiding in the vast visual subtletiesof nature - Subtle Trees is a classical music collage asmuch as it is an homage to classical music. It's core is created through sounds gathered in the owl hours by sampling ancient instruments who secores were derived from the trees of nature. These sounds were layered like lichen on an ancientpantheistic sculpture.One of the adventures with listening to music is attempting to peruse the potential meanings withinit. Sometimes there might appear to be a drama that twirls concept and story while other times the meaning may likento a leaf that's fallen from heaven with abstract intent. Likewise, Subtle Trees rests between two spaces of concept and simple campfire tale. Either way you approach your attempt at defining the lines that run between these tracks, close your eyes and choose your own adventure.

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Offthesky - The Beautiful Nowhere

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2011
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For his latest record 'The Beautiful Nowhere', Jason Corder had initially set himself a loose rule to use as many acoustic instruments as possible, whilst limiting the use of heavy electronic processing techniques. Instruments including guitar, harmonium, cello, toy piano, violin, kalimba, vibraphone and voice were recorded in a cabin near Carter Lake, Colorado in the peace of a beautiful, yet remote space. It was this secluded environment that encouraged and an existential state of mind and the resulting material gleaned of ideas relating to isolation and the surrounding rural landscape. Around the time of recording, Jason also watched a documentary called 'The True Meaning Of Pictures', about a photographer called Shelby Lee Adams. His subjects lie in deep Appalachia; an incredible culture caught on film that has haunted Jason ever since.Like many Offthesky records, there is a loose concept that leaves lots of room for abstract interpretation. Ideas of simple backwoods life and pastoral existence are what permeates the sound throughout this beautiful set of songs. Other than this, it is hoped that the music itself will do the talking and that all who listen may open their ears to the stories contained within...

Limited edition in handmade packaging. Mastered by Taylor Deupre.


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Offthesky - Through the Lines

Artist: Offthesky
P: 2012
LTD 100
Through The Lines was originally recorded as a live performance for the CMKY Black Box event in Colorado.Remixes by Juxta Phona and ZS. With guest apperances by Sarah Chung (Vocals and Violin), Client davis & Brian Archinal (Liquid Percussion) and Morgan Packard (Saxophone) Breathtaking cinamatic soundscapes off the sky and beyond....

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Offthesky Vs Kinder Scout ‎– The Curio Collection

Artist: Offthesky Vs Kinder Scout
P: 2012
Breathtaking Neo-classical/ambient exhalations from Jason Corder (Offthesky) in trio with cellist Danny Norbury and Home Normal's intercontinental CEO, Ian Hawgood (Kinder Scout). The central figures are joined by vocalist/violinist Sarah Chung, and vocalist Sarah Martin to complete the line-up of ambient souls. Across six tracks they paint a slow moving and faded soundscape glowing with the soft peal of bells, creaking strings and crackling location recordings which mingle and diffuse with tender subtlety, the focus given to a blurry mid-ground while a shifting patina of vocal glossolalia and drones lend a dreamy momentum to the whole thing. Upon further investigation of this hauntingly reverent and rhythmic record, quickly revealed are the trappings of offthesky’s signature spells: vibraphone, rolling guitar, soft bells, lilting voicals, and the ever evolving landscape. According to the accounts of Mr. Corder, much of the color, inspiration and foundation for the songs therein stemmed from afar out of ian hawgood’s personal closet of field recordings, live takes, and processed experiments. Danny Norbury’s timeless cello paints several pieces to add a majestic and modern-classic effect. Last but not least Sarah Chung (of Pillow Garden) and Sara Martin’s soft singing cameo about, which adds an antiephemeral hue sprinkled atop the ever present time-stained aesthetic. Each delicate track has the ability to leave the listener with a sense that they’ve just steeped in the light of an occultish cabinet glowing full of arcane mysteries. Jason Corder - arrangement, vibes, guitar, piano, banjo Ian Hawgood - guitar, piano, vocals, harmonium, mellotron, flute, Danny Norbury - cello + special guests - Sarah Chung - vocals, violin and Sara Martin - vocals.

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