“The Gulistan of Sa’di” opens Limbic by Erik Austin Deerly and sounds like the soundtrack to a trek through a Middle Eastern desert on an extremely hot day. The rhythm rolls to a slow but steady grove, which is built upon an elastically fluid bass line with eerie keyboard sounds and mysterious saxophone. Deerly plays [...]
It is interesting to see where the frequent meanderings of the mind will eventually take you in Erik Austin Deerly’s fourth solo endeavor, titled, Parable of the Poison Arrow. A multi-instrumentalist (saxophone, guitar, voice, computer, keyboards, and multiple wind percussion instrumentalist), Deerly is also a talented media artist and composer. While it is no question [...]
Some musicians will opt for a minor change of direction, while others will opt for more radical change; Erik Austin Deerly is a good example of the latter. In the early 1990s, the producer/composer/multi-instrumentalist fronted a Chicago-based alternative rock/indie rock band called Every Good Boy; other members of that band were part of Red Red [...]
Erik Austin Deerly – LIMBIC: I first encountered his work in issue # 123 and was impressed enough to ask him for more; unless you’re a TOTAL jazz purist, you’ll enjoy what he’s doing here, too. In further researching the many interesting things Erik is doing, I happened on this YOUTUBE vid of his work as well – most interesting. [...]
Musically speaking, Erik Austin Deerly has lived an exciting life with over 30 years of music composition and performance under his belt. Rewind the clock back two decades and you would find him rocking out as front man of Every Good Boy, alongside musicians who played in bands like Tortoise and Red Red Meat. Since [...]
As Brian Eno once wrote in the liner notes to his eponymously titled Ambient 1: Music For Airports, “Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Of course, actively ignoring artistic output wasn’t really the intent of [...]
As a multi-instrumentalist and composer, Erik Austin Deerly transcends musical boundaries by incorporating new age, electronic, and classical elements into a palette of work that seemingly defies categorization. Limbic, which is Latin for ‘border’ or ‘edge,’ is aptly-titled for its inventive and diverse use of electronic and instrumental embellishments on the periphery of conventional musical [...]
The multi-instrumental talents of Erik Austin Deerly are evidenced by the incredible attention to electronic music and nu-jazz foundations with equal bouts of new age, improvisation, and ethnic elements. The high-brow musings of Children Of The Ocean are instrumental and completely devoid of vocalizations. The eleven tracks suggest some nod to water in its various [...]
Erik Austin Deerly transcends musical genres and presents us with an introspective journey through the electronic edges of humanity drawing upon trans-galactic influences, but clearly focusing on planet Earth. Biomes is aptly-titled with nine instrumental and vocal tunes dedicated to nine different ecological regions. Erik incorporates ethereal voicings, keyboard washes, and nature sounds to complete [...]
Erik Austin Deerly’s Biomes falls into the ambient electronica category; world music and new age elements are incorporated. And from an ambient standpoint, Biomes is a creative success. Biomes can be described as a nine-part, 46-minute suite that establishes a hypnotic, haunting, spacey, trance-like mood with the opener “Biome 1: Equatorial” and maintains that mood right up until the end of [...]
“The Gulistan of Sa’di” opens Limbic by Erik Austin Deerly and sounds like the soundtrack to a trek through a Middle Eastern desert on an extremely hot day. The rhythm rolls to a slow but steady grove, which is built upon an elastically fluid bass line with eerie keyboard sounds and mysterious saxophone. Deerly plays [...]
