ALPHA PARTICLES

Songs For Your Golden Hour

Alpha Particles: Songs for Your golden hour.

ALPHA PARTICLES is the musical imprint of producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Allen Morris, based in Orange County, California.

I experience the world in colors, hues, shades, and textures. The way the light filters through leaves on a warm, late-summer afternoon, the glitter of moonlight as it dances upon the water at midnight, the shimmer upon a girl’s hair as it whips in a gentle breeze. There is so much nuance and subtlety in the world around us, and that is what I love about music. Those small, beautiful moments that somehow are experienced deep within by what comes through your speakers. A memory, a vision, a pull upon your heart.

This is ALPHA PARTICLES. Something small that starts something big. One afternoon while hiking in the Arizona desert, I dropped my camera down a ravine. What happened damaged the camera, no doubt, but in an unexpectedly wonderful way. Photographs became blurred, distorted, unpredictable as the light sensor malfunctioned and overexposed all the shots. It was from these unexpected, other-worldly “light paintings” that I began to hear music, the songs I wanted to write, in a new way. Instead of being motivated by composing melodies and chord progressions, I wanted to say something completely different, to capture the light in the music, to paint with colors, hues, shades, and textures. To make music that brings up an image as much as it being an auditory art form.

I experimented a lot. Formed bands, dismantled them. Never satisfied I shelved the project for a long time. It wasn’t until the lockdowns during the unpredictable and difficult year 2020 was that a new spark was lit. I was older, missing friends and times past and wanting to connect with a hidden inner self in hopes of reconnecting a line with my deeper identity. The North Fork EP was the product of that inner soul searching; five songs of longing for the simplicity of friends, laughs, and the outdoors. It had taken another five years to arrive at where I am now, ready to share the next leg of the journey with you through a series of single releases. Starting June 16, 2025 I will be releasing five songs in one week: Songs for your golden hour. Songs that can accompany you in the soft glow of your morning routine, or on your drive with the windows down and everything in between. These are songs that will be the backdrop to your life in the golden hour. So sit back and enjoy, and lets go on a little journey together. -Allen Morris. May 2025.