Chance, chaos and the unknown can produce beautiful results if you can just let it happen. That unknown creative variable was critical for me because it made the effort a true collaboration.
These musicians are amazing artists, and I don't think they would have delivered the great performances that they did had I tried to control the process more. "In each case, I asked the guys to do whatever they thought would best serve the song, I gave them complete creative control over their contributions to the recording. In regards to the guest artists, Simmons explains: He is a member of the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame. In Modern Drummer’s 2009 Readers Poll, he was voted best Pop, Fusion, and All-Around drummer. The 2015MIWAward winner for Best Debut Album is Exovex / Dale Simmons - Radio Silence. Keith Carlock is an American jazz drummer who has played with Toto, Wayne Krantz, Steely Dan, James Taylor, Donald Fagen, Walter Becker, Tal Wilkenfeld, John Mayer, Sting, and Chris Botti. A great deal of the emotional content and lyrics for the album comes from my time spent as an expatriate in Europe and living in Chateau d’Uriage." Many, many thanks to the good people at Music in Widescreen for selecting Exovex - Radio Silence as the Best Debut Album of 2015 Thanks so much for supporting the album guys Music in Widescreen. Although the storyline of Radio Silence is set in the near future, it is roughly based on the life events of Sibond Alleman, a recluse, who lived in residence at Chateau d’Uriage in 14th century France. The central figure in the story chooses a solitary life in a remote location only to find that he is unable to come back when he realizes his needs are still unfulfilled by his seclusion. They are snapshots in time that speak to personal circumstances that drive us to make life-changing decisions.both good and bad. The songs on the album are a sequence of events, which document his thought processes and eventual deterioration. "The central theme of the album focuses on the downward spiral and ultimate demise of a man due to the psychological and physical effects of a long term, self-imposed isolation. Says Dale Simmons about the concept behind the album:
The Exovex debut album Radio Silence was released in March 2015 on iTunes and BitTorrent as a downloadable BundleĪ special Limited Edition CD edition began shipping on exclusively through through All songs on the album were written, performed and produced by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dale Simmons.
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