Ranging from the
world’s most famous
classical works to
soulful jazz standards,
with adaptations of
film score favorites
and reimagined crossovers of
popular Top-40 hits,
brings beauty
and wields wonder
with an enticing mix of
melodic lyricism and
heavenly harmonies.
Musical Arrangements and Performance by:
J. Golko
(Photo by Ross Feighery)
ForEverAfter
began
as an idea kept on the back burner for “someday, maybe…”
until materializing into reality as a budding,
new musical act in the spring of 2020.
But before ForEverAfter transcended from a “cool idea” to “I have to do this,”
a few life experiences had to occur…
14,000ft above Honolulu, Hawaii
Holland America Line in Geiranger, Norway
Having studied and performed on a broad collection of woodwind instruments from saxophones, clarinets, and flute to
rhythm-based instruments including
hand percussion, guitar, bass, piano,
and the “Earth Harp,”
it was the accumulation of twenty+ years of acquiring musical knowledge from GRAMMY Camp and Berklee College of Music along with over five years of international travel in the cruise industry
that led to the creation of
the ForEverAfter sound.
The Earth Harp of “Sonic Odyssey” by
Royal Caribbean Productions
After a concentrated stint
performing as “the Maestro”
on the legendary Earth Harp -
immersed in the music of
film score composers such as
John Williams
(Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter)
&
James Horner
(Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar)
I began studying the relationship between the magic of music and the physics of sound.
As gravity would have it,
I eventually fell upon the research
of Japanese-American physicist
Michio Kaku’s “String Theory.”
Crudely paraphrased,
it likens the material existence of
our universe to the collective
vibrations of the smallest of
microscopic frequencies.
According to Kaku,
“In string theory,
all particles are vibrations
on a tiny rubber band…
…the universe
is a symphony of strings,
and the 'mind of God'
is cosmic music resonating
in 11-dimensional hyperspace...”
And by the will of chance,
I’ve been quoted in the L.A. Times
on the subject of musical physics
while working on a record-breaking 800+ft
Earth Harp installation with
musical instrument inventor
William Close back in 2017.
May 31, 2017 - Jessica Gelt of L.A. Times
(Photo by Maura Black)