SALVAGING THE PAST - Dean De Benedictis (a.k.a. SURFACE 10), has envisioned a vital work of instrumental compositions, exploring the art of electronic music with a refreshing integrity. Blending traditional electronic tones and structures with acoustic elements, he has sculpted an album that is raw and direct. In essence, he has captured a heart of true electronic music, while suggesting more thought-provoking themes. De Benedictis realizes this vision through various electronic tonalities, samples, and acoustic instruments such as mayahachi flute, bamboo flutes, cello, piano, voice, guitars, hand drums, and percussion - applying all, with the passion and inspiration of the masters before him. Salvaging the Past is not only an homage to the electronic music of the past, but expands the vocabulary of the present. -Howard Givens, Spotted Peccary Records.
All music on Salvaging The Past was composed, performed, recorded, and produced by Dean De Benedictis between 1992 and 2005. To hear audio, buy a copy and/or find a store near you that carries Salvaging The Past: Spotted Peccary Records or Amazon.com or BackroadsMusic.com. To buy a copy on this site go to the shop page. For Dean's discography >>>>>>> To go back <<<<<<<
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Living in the present can be an over-rated, and sometimes overused philisophical approach, just like living in the past can be. One's past does not deserve to be abandoned any more then one's present or one's future does. Always living in the present would mean that nothing could ever really be held sacred, for how truly sacred can something be unless it is reflected upon? Strife and fulfilment, sorrow and happiness, the whole sanctity of lifes' experince is there when looked back on, and this in turn becomes a comforting metaphor for the sanctity yet to come. The present moment covets the beauty of 'experience', the future covets the beauty of 'imagination', and the past covets the beauty of 'home'. The present may be how we travel, and the future may be where we are traveling to, but we need not be homeless by losing sight of how and where we came from. Our original quests, our original equasions, our history and our heritage, are all responsible for bringing us this moment. Thanks to the past, we are now beings in the present. It almost becomes our responsibility to return the gesture by occasionally reincarnating, re-applying, re-confirming, re-defining, resurrecting, completing, and honoring our past experiences, like any growing, rising tree would by spreading it's own roots under the ground. In this way, the balance is given and life has dimension: past, present, and future, like one flowing river.
