Wyatt r.w.
A beautiful record of light dance music for a walk in the forest. Samples of birds and natural ambience are weaved into the tracks to where songs feel much bigger and expansive, while the oddities of percussion hold up the bright melodies played on piano. This album was made for spring and summer, and could be the soundtrack to just about anything from starting your day to playing Minecraft.
Favorite track: Traversa.
brooden
I'm not much of a music artist so I do not know all of the fancy terminology lol. But this is definitely my favorite album by Noah to date. I vibe with the whole nature/ambience instrumentals and it really is unique and a beautiful album. Can't wait to listen on repeat, great job Noah, keep up the great work. :)
Favorite track: Haku.
Organica is the debut album by me, MinimusNoah. This is a turning point in my sound, with Organica fully leaning into that more gentle and lush sound that the singles that preceded it were hinting at. While being much more minimal with it's sound, Organica still manages to be more dynamic and free-flowing when compared to my previous material. The songs on this LP also still manage to have their own identity, they aren't just completely drone-y background music, and, at the same time, they don't try to always be in your face.
Organica was crafted to be an album for home-listening; this is the type of album that you'd turn on to maybe be the soundtrack to your morning, to be the type of album you'd put on while playing a videogame, to be an album you put on just to jam out to when you're bored, etc.
This album was born out of a sort of frustration I was having with the way I was making music; everything had gotten kind of same-y. So, I came up with the idea to almost completely switch up my whole recording process. I had changed my DAW of choice to Ableton Live, a program that I had never really used beforehand. On top of that, this is my most VST/synth-based material in a very long time, while this album still contains field recordings and sample chops in some tracks (mainly Nagi and Birdsong), this is almost completely VST-driven.
This complete switch-up of music software as well as a partially new set of synths and little samples to work with caused my workflow to be completely changed. This is partially the reason behind the album's more minimal and clear sound palette.
Most of my other musical projects were made out of me simply wanting to make a project just so I can see it on music platforms, but I wanted this album to have more of a purpose. This is (surprisingly) the first record I've made with the specific intention of it being listened to front to back, with my previous projects basically being a collection of similar-sounding tracks that were made during the time of making. I took great care into making this album's pacing work out well.
Despite the slightly more simplistic and minimal sound palette, this has been the most effort I've put into a project of mine thus far. Organica is very personal to me as this was made during a time period of major life changes and discoveries; hopefully in the future, I can look back on this and picture the mindset I was in during this time. This is the album of mine that I'm personally the most proud of, and I'm glad it's finally done and out.
*Each track page contains individual descriptions about the process/story of the track, and each page contains any VST/plug-ins that were used during each track's recording process. (Does not include any stock Ableton effects like its reverb, EQ eight, etc.)
credits
released March 19, 2021
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All songs written, produced, mixed, and mastered by Noah Jones
Made in Ableton Live 10 DAW software to organize and manipulate sound recordings as well as to control virtual instruments/synthesizers
Lists of any VSTs used are in the descriptions of each track
Album art direction and design by Noah Jones as well
Recorded at home between March 2020 and February 2021
MinimusNoah is Noah Jones
I give a huge thanks to anyone who enjoys and/or supports my music efforts, it really means a lot to me.
Special thanks to Braeden and Eden, who've listened to certain parts of the album while I was making it and whose feedback was fantastic
Also another thanks to Mom and Dad, all the Ecostämma members, and everyone else who has supported me in some way during the making of this project.
One of the most wonderful pieces of folktronica I have ever heard, lots of fantastic instrumentation that's very dreamy and layered; if you need a record to simply reflect life on, this should be IT MinimusNoah
Extremely playful, lively, fun, fluid and smooth, all the descriptors that I can describe this with all apply; this one is such a fantastic listen front to back, the world built here is so fantastic MinimusNoah
A wide range of remixes of Wyhatt's fun synthpop travel-themed EP 'The Oregon Trail' that can go from hard-hitting to gentle to scary to fun, and more, really cool stuff on this one MinimusNoah