~ Soul Saint Marie ~

Biography

The creation of singer/songwriter/producer Chris Roush, Soul Saint Marie developed out of an experiment in Chris' late high school years into the then burgeoning area of computer-based recording. When he discovered that, on albums at least, the potential for layering complicated multi-instrumental pieces into a cohesive whole was essentially limitless, Chris picked up and learned one instrument after another to finally produce what sounds like a small town providing a fitting background for his poetry. Interwoven with sounds both organic and super-natural, Soul Saint Marie's music attempts to immerse its listener in a landscape that is strangely familiar yet simultaneously other-worldly.

M.O.

Information by its very nature cannot be owned, traded, sold, or possessed. There is a paradigm shift occurring right now in the world in which we live; we are beginning the move from the old corporate power structure where everything is owned and hoarded by money-hungry assholes to a world of pure information, where nothing can be owned or held or sold, where ideas are free to inspire without cost. The internet is the domain for this new revolution, and everyone still trying to hold onto the old ideas of intellectual property are sure to lose out and be left in the dust.
I am 127% floored by the idea that money is no longer the necessary motivating force behind anything and everything, and especially art. Art is made to inspire and inform, and if it's corrupted by these old ideas of money and power, then all of that potential is lost. So I am making a deal that I will never, ever coerce money for the music that I put out. It will always be available for free, the way that information is inherently.
So feel free to download these songs and do anything you want with them. Burn them for someone you think might like them, put one in your full-length feature film about the nature of time (or literally anything else), remix it, smash it up with some linkin park or jay-z song, I'm down. But the deal is, you have to tell me about it so I can check it out. Because I think that�s how art (if nothing else) should work. When you don't care about the money or sales records or whatever and just KNOW that it comes back to you in an infinite number of other, much more meaningful ways.

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