"from the brink of death"
The deep space synthwave journey of Moonlanding by Aeris'87, the musical moniker of Aeris Finch (Producer, Writer, Sound designer and Professional Piano Player // Overall jilted soul) based out of Vancouver, Canada is a hyper realistic soundscape that shape shifts. It moves from dreamy sort of robotic 80's tech proto punk to a cinematic futuristic tone (in a 70's Soviet Sci-fi movie) to dark wave retro like something out of Stranger Things to things that slither in the darkness of space and back again. Each sonic motif pulls you in.
When you speak to artists, it is invariably their art that defines them but that art can also be something that saves them and heals them. Finch shares a crazy horror story that ultimately has a moving ending. The following are his words not mine (in any way).
I have a pretty interesting story to say the least... through out the past 10 years I have been in a few musical projects
I'm a Iron worker by trade... It keeps me fit, and grounded.
Music is my passion...There is always sounds in my head. I seem to be perpetually creating melodies. Whether it be clicking my teeth to rhythms, tickling the ivories, Singing to myself or at others ...or wrapping on bus vinyl seating. Music spills out of me.
Ive experienced Immense pain throughout my life and childhood and I channel that into my craft.
One major event in my life is described below... and this catalyst is the sole reason you see me trying to further my musical will,
In march of 2019 I was on a downward spiral. Nothing was working out for me... so I turned to Consuming prescription drugs and cocaine to deal with depression fueled by gripping existential dread / Crohns disease. Of course this made the toll on my body immense .
I had a family that loved me . Children to love. A fiance that deeply cared for me and a baby on the way . A Job that never gave up on me and friends that where all so afraid of the road I was headed down. None of this mattered, I was sick , I wanted to die.
I was selfish.
Inevitably I had a massive overdose . My fiancé had a baby, and the events that unfolded next where pure insanity.
I was found by a good samaratin who noticed my apartment door ajar. I was blue with hypoxia and had asphyxiated my vomit.
For whatever reason the firefighters/paramedics never gave up on me.
I ended up in a coma ... on life support ...and pronounced vegetative. My body was decimated due to lack of oxygen. My Kidneys and Liver both failed. I was hooked to dialysis and every other machine you can imagine that can keep someone alive.
I lay there unresponsive for 23 days. My family refused repeated attempts by the hospital staff to " send me to heaven".
The doctors began to tell my family If I didn't wake up 3 days after being pulled off sedation,,, I would NEVER wake up. I was pulled off sedation.
After 7 days I hadn't aroused. My best friend was en route to the Hospital to be there for my family and say good bye. His flight was delayed for 24 fateful hours . The day he arrived was the day my Fiancé found me sitting up in bed. ( Albeit extremely confused / deranged )
Every week that went by my vital statistics got better by multiples.
After 2 months I was discharged from the hospital ... and despite what every doctor said... I was headed for a full recovery.
Part of my recovery consisted of building new healthier routines. So I started focusing on my passion for music. I taught myself ( with the aid of many tutorials) how to track and mix. ( I didn't even know what a signal chain was FYI.) I've always been on the OTHER side of the glass.
I love creating , Its keeping me sane and sober. I'm filled with a new found optimism. I hope to channel all the deep emotions I've experienced through out my life into my music.
I hope you enjoy what I create!
Aeris
I'm a Iron worker by trade... It keeps me fit, and grounded.
Music is my passion...There is always sounds in my head. I seem to be perpetually creating melodies. Whether it be clicking my teeth to rhythms, tickling the ivories, Singing to myself or at others ...or wrapping on bus vinyl seating. Music spills out of me.
Ive experienced Immense pain throughout my life and childhood and I channel that into my craft.
One major event in my life is described below... and this catalyst is the sole reason you see me trying to further my musical will,
In march of 2019 I was on a downward spiral. Nothing was working out for me... so I turned to Consuming prescription drugs and cocaine to deal with depression fueled by gripping existential dread / Crohns disease. Of course this made the toll on my body immense .
I had a family that loved me . Children to love. A fiance that deeply cared for me and a baby on the way . A Job that never gave up on me and friends that where all so afraid of the road I was headed down. None of this mattered, I was sick , I wanted to die.
I was selfish.
Inevitably I had a massive overdose . My fiancé had a baby, and the events that unfolded next where pure insanity.
I was found by a good samaratin who noticed my apartment door ajar. I was blue with hypoxia and had asphyxiated my vomit.
For whatever reason the firefighters/paramedics never gave up on me.
I ended up in a coma ... on life support ...and pronounced vegetative. My body was decimated due to lack of oxygen. My Kidneys and Liver both failed. I was hooked to dialysis and every other machine you can imagine that can keep someone alive.
I lay there unresponsive for 23 days. My family refused repeated attempts by the hospital staff to " send me to heaven".
The doctors began to tell my family If I didn't wake up 3 days after being pulled off sedation,,, I would NEVER wake up. I was pulled off sedation.
After 7 days I hadn't aroused. My best friend was en route to the Hospital to be there for my family and say good bye. His flight was delayed for 24 fateful hours . The day he arrived was the day my Fiancé found me sitting up in bed. ( Albeit extremely confused / deranged )
Every week that went by my vital statistics got better by multiples.
After 2 months I was discharged from the hospital ... and despite what every doctor said... I was headed for a full recovery.
Part of my recovery consisted of building new healthier routines. So I started focusing on my passion for music. I taught myself ( with the aid of many tutorials) how to track and mix. ( I didn't even know what a signal chain was FYI.) I've always been on the OTHER side of the glass.
I love creating , Its keeping me sane and sober. I'm filled with a new found optimism. I hope to channel all the deep emotions I've experienced through out my life into my music.
I hope you enjoy what I create!
Aeris
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
I am Aeris'87, I am a Cinematic Synthwave/ Retro Artist .
Following a brush with death I was in pieces. I shifted focus from the reaper. Music always echoed from me , yet I remained unheard and hungry. So I bang these pots and pans . hoping for melodies from ash,
Music defines what is undefinable.
I am a Producer, Writer, Sound designer and Professional Piano Player // Overall jilted soul,
I've strongly connected with the pulsating rhythms and depeche mode of Synthwave music. Creating cinematic pieces to helps others escape from the mundane ( sometimes overbearing) reality of life on this rock gives me great joy.
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