DeepSkydivers.com
Title
ambient music & new age music soundscapes from the UKs deep sky divers
Description
"deep sky divers is...
the collaborative effort of Jon Short and David Jones, two Brits who, if taken by appearance alone would seem unlikely candidates for composing music of such depth, complexity, and feeling."
"Jon and David compose and record music that is hard to categorize. It blends the melodicism of adult contemporary music and classic new age with some of the breeziness of non-urban smooth jazz and the electronic keyboards of ambient and EM. There is meticulous attention to musical atmosphere, faultless engineering, composing in a variety of tones and textures, using ultra-high quality keyboards, and all of it wedded to an accessibility that somehow walks the fine line between being both commercial and heartfelt. This makes the music almost virtually unclassifiable in usual terms, which (if I can be so bold as to say this) is probably just what Short and Jones prefer."
The name deep sky divers came to be in march 2000. Jon uploaded some music he had composed with David in the early 1990s to an internet site called mp3.com. And a suitable name was needed. Between 1990-94, Jon and David had worked together on a remarkable body of music initially intended to be demos for film and TV soundtrack opportunities that ultimately never came along. These music sessions were a form of therapy - an escape from hectic workloads and family lives. And in these precious moments of escapism, they conceived music to escape by...
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