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ALPHA PARTICLES

Introspective indie

“The Drifter” streaming everywhere!

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Alpha Particles 2023

by Alpha Particles

The 2023 Singles: The Drifter, Highway One, Tomorrow Was Yesterday, The Tree Still Bleeds. On streaming services everywhere.

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Alpha Particles: Watching The Light Change

ALPHA PARTICLES is the musical imprint of Los Angeles-based singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist producer Allen Morris.

Starting as an experimental photography project in 2013, Alpha Particles quickly morphed into a music project, with a band forming around the few songs I had written and playing our first shows from 2014 through 2016, then recording and releasing the eponymous Alpha Particles (2016). By 2017, I began to focus on solo performance, which influenced the subsequent release of Fly By Wire (2017) and its surrounding tours and shows over the next two years. The events of 2020 as we know completely changed the landscape of the world in every sense, and my world was no different; it forced me into a state of introspection and taking stock of my identity and my values. This was evident in the release of The North Fork EP (2020) and Dancing On The Breeze (2020), both works highlighting the brevity of life and its preciousness.

2023 saw the release of 4 songs that I had with me for the better part of two decades: The Drifter, The Tree Still Bleeds, Tomorrow Was Yesterday and Highway One. Two of these songs I had done previously on Fly By Wire, but thought it was important to revisit and rework them: to pick up where I left off and bring my story forward to who I am now. What began with these four singles soon became a full length album. Watching The Light Change is Alpha Particles first full length release which effectively bridges the gap between my Fly by Wire era, and taking my artistic expression forward. It’s a record of healing, letting go, acknowledging the past and learning in the present, enjoy the journey and the present, and setting the stage for my music to come in the future. Watching The Light Change is slated to be released in July 2025.

-Allen Morris, May 2025.

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The visual arts have always been an important part of my expression. I often don’t hear music in the form of notes or tones, but I often “see” music in colors, shapes, and textures. I use photography and graphic design as a first draft of what I want to write, musically, drawing from locations and visual experiences as the basis for composition and songwriting.

“Vision 2” photograph taken in 2014 using a Canon Rebel XTi

“Vision 4” photograph taken in 2014 using a Canon Rebel XTi

“Cloudscape” 2017. Canon 6D MkII

“Craters of The Moon” 2017 iPhone through vintage 10” Celestron Telescope

“Shasta Autumn Morning” 2019. Mount Shasta, CA. iPhone

“Fibonacci In Floral” 2019. Canon 6D MkII

“Sundial Vertigo” 2019 Sundial Bridge, Redding, CA. iPhone

“Origin Story” 2018. Tsé Bitʼaʼí (Shiprock) NM. Canon 6D MkII

“Peace Through Architecture” Part of an Alpha Particles graphic design series. 2017. Mixed media (photo and vector art manipulation)

“Dancing On The Breeze” single artwork. Photoshop manipulated composite of 2 photographs. 2020 Markleeville, CA. Canon 6D MkII

“Reflections of the Heart” 2019. Heart Lake, Dunsmuir, CA. Canon 6D MkII

“The Way of the Heart” 2022. San Xavier del Bac Mission, AZ. Panasonic Lumix