A Bright Wind - Out Now!

Hi guys, I just came out with this new album, A Bright Wind. You can listen to the album for free here as much as you like. If you dig the album, you should click below to grab a limited edition hand-made package from me, which includes the CD, art by the lovely and talented Sarah Fox, and a special garden surprise!
Love, Travis

Billboard

Bio, by By Scott Karoly, KZSC:

"I first saw Travis Hill play guitar in his garage when I was sixteen. He told me that I could sing, so we played a song and by the end his right forearm was bleeding. He'd been playing so vigorously that the inside of his arm would smash against his guitar until there was blood all over everything; the strings, the body, the pickups. He cut the toes off of a sock and wrapped it around his injured arm and kept going. At this point, he had been recording music in the study of his parents' house on a PC that he had completely skinned to look like it was running Mac OS X. The computer consequently crashed and burned, but that's beside the point. Both of these things kind of sum up Travis' music - a seamless blending of the completely tactile and material with something futuristic and effortlessly created. Combining flutes with synths and bells and acoustic guitar all recorded on a four-track reel to reel tape recorder that was damaged by UPS in transit, he makes music that sounds so completely warm and organic and real. It gives you the feeling like there's something coming from somewhere else and you want to listen to it forever. Travis has always made music that was whatever he wanted to make and was influenced by whoever he wanted to influence him. When everyone around him was listening to Glassjaw (and pretending to like it), he was listening to Yo La Tengo and that was fine. I think we're all happy about that now. There really isn't an instrument that Travis can't play to my knowledge. Travis learned how to play drums by air-drumming on the dashboard of his 1980s Peugeot Sedan (R.I.P. Michél, the car that gave us all a scare when it was going about 10 miles per hour over the Broadway overpass with the pedal to the floor - it was kind of like one of those toy cars you roll backward to wind up and eventually it gets going) until he sat down behind a drum set one day and just played it. There's something appealing about a musician who records for the sake of the music, rather than for the sake of becoming popular through mass-friend-frenzies on myspace. Some things in life you find for yourself and cherish. These songs fit into that category."

From NPR.org, April 21, 2008:

"Travis Shawn Hill wanted to prove you don't need a major record label to put out an album... or a band, for that matter. Using a home computer and a couple of microphones, the singer-songwriter from Santa Cruz, Calif. wrote and recorded more than a dozen songs in February and posted them online for this year's RPM Challenge. The album he came up with is called A Bright Wind, featuring the infectiously upbeat song "Sing." "The song 'Sing' was written and recorded in an afternoon, in order to cheer myself up," says Hill. "Its message is a simple one: that happiness comes from within, which is a message that resonates throughout the album, A Bright Wind." Hill has been playing music since he was five. After forming and playing with a number of bands in high school and college, he decided to go solo. He says A Brigh Wind is "devoted to the idea that each life is defined solely by the person living it, and that to experience life to the fullest, it is necessary to pursue one's dream, whether that dream be constant throughout one's life, or constantly changing."

-Robin Hilton, NPR.org's "Second Stage"

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