For more than a decade, Shane Morris has been producing expansive and uncompromising ambient, tribal, electronic music both in studio releases and live performances. Defying any easy categorization, Morris draws from a well of sources including Electronic music, Ambient, African and Caribbean drumming, Pre-Hispanic music of the Americas, Jazz, Psychedelia, and Folk traditions from around the world.
The core of Shane’s unique sound is an amalgam of polyrhythmic drumming, ethereal soundscapes, and indigenous wind and percussion instruments. With these instruments, Shane creates sonic spaces that reflect out, as well as introspects. Morris brews a worldly modern mix of organic acoustics and digital electronics that pay tribute to old and new while creating a new language for the present. Shane’s undivided attention to detail and dynamics, sound and spatialization, textures and harmonies, are features that can be found in each of his compositions.
Morris grew up in the Ozark mountains where he developed a love for nature and the arts at an early age. The regional sounds of St. Louis and Memphis helped fuel his interest in music and cultures from around the world. In 2005, Morris received a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Music from Missouri State University. During this time, Shane studied Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis on the African diaspora, Western music theory and history, Art history, and religious studies.
Outside of academic work, Morris continued studies in percussion traditions from the United States, Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America. Shane has been fortunate to study with some of the world’s greatest percussionists including Giovanni Hidalgo, Horacio Hernandez, Jamie Haddad, Michael Spiro, Regino Jimenez, Jesus Diaz, and Mamady Keita. Shane has also had the honor of performing with members of Los Munequitos de Matanzas and the Nakatani Gong Orchestra.
Morris’s music has been featured on radio stations across the globe including Hearts of Space, Star’s End, Ultima Thule, Music for Space, Alien Air Music, Night Tides, Galactic Travels, Secret Music, and Nightsounds, as well as internet radio stations Soma.fm, Stillstream, Electro-Music, and Radio Spiral. Morris has also had music featured on podcasts by Hypnagogue, Sadayatana, Sounds of Ambience, Lost Frontier, and many more.
Visit Shane’s website shanemorrismusic.com
