Solo
As a solo performer, I find myself equally at home when playing composed pieces as I do when improvising.
Releases
Bloom
Bloom depicts the season of Spring through the experience of the Manzanita tree. With that perspective in mind, we experience naive and frail growth. We experience a burst of passion, but then questions and doubts begin to surface. We start to wonder if what we want, or what we are, is the truth. Things are starting to change.
"Bloom" is the first of four releases surrounding the "Manzanita" concept album. Each release represents a significant part of our journey through life. Every journey has pain and loss; every journey has pure joy and celebration. Manzanita seeks to explore these seasons of life through symbolism and prose.
released August 14, 2020
All music recorded and mixed by Sean Emmett Thompson, with exceptions to the following:
Credits to:
Piano on Manzanita - Jace Holmes-Floyd
Drums on Falsehoods Speak - Kevin Figueroa, AKA Nowandformerly
Sun - Release Planned Summer '21
Collected Videos
These videos are a representation of my solo performances in various settings.
These include:
- A live performance for Helen St. Mixr in Oakland during the 2020 Pandemic.
- Now titled "Bliss is Blind" (fka Satanic Bumblebee) performed acoustic at the palace of fine arts in SF.
- A performance of "Flight" for the now defunct Secret Show Society.
- My performance of "Encounters" for the Welcome Days talent show at SFSU, with ~700 in attendance.
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Sean Emmett Thompson - Helen St. MixR August 2020
NativeSF City Sessions: Sean Thompson
Sean Thompson @ The Secret Show Sessions
SFSU Welcome Days Talent Show
Collected Individual Works
Here is a collection of solo works which stand alone either as experiments or songs not yet collated into a single project.
The Smartphone Sessions
"These are ten tracks I created during a ten-week project that all started because I spilled water on my laptop.
Baring the Good, the Bad, and the Weird, it's an exploration of my musical capability and taste, and an attempt to be more comfortable with a more organic and improvisational/experimental approach to music.
Every track is recorded in one take, with no editing, on my smartphone. Each Track also has it's own poem, written in tandem with the music, which was also written in one sitting, no edits. Each track is also paired with a photo, taken and edited by my smartphone.
Hope you find something you like in here."