Dean Wolfe

Creating unique melodic tracks for film, video, tv.

Ambient/Rock/Jazz/Prog/instrumental and vocal Garage/Alt/Brit rock, indie rock, cinematic, new age/classical, children's music.

Acoustic and Electric Guitar based, including cello, ukulele, syth etc.

You will be reminded of such artists as: Brian Eno, Ben Folds, Pat Metheny, Tom Petty, Death Cab for Cutie, The Strokes, 80s New wave, REM, Beatles, Foo Fighters, Crowded House, Neil Finn...

Like a wild dragon, and equally daunting- consciousness is the most difficult beast to tame and control.

What was your last thought before sleeping last night?

Most of us ride our thought trains strapped squarely on- but never really seeming to have lasting control or even expectation of where we’ll end up, but we’re always sure of where we are- in the so-called ‘now’.

Thought-trains are roller coasters: travelling fast or slow, looping, jerking left then right, climbing up then racing down. Beyond the brief moments of ‘now’ that we’re living in, everything is a vapour or hologram a mere two steps beyond where we’re coming from and where we’re heading.

Many years ago as a pre-teen, I discovered my future. I met with clues, hints...relics of another time like encoded messages- ghostly outlines of musical paths I’d yet experience.

It happened in the 70s. I was a young Beatles fan- nearly worshiping their melodic pop rock at the tender age 3 or 4. They’d recently broke up, but there was no lack of their presence on the radio, in music stores, or in our home. I recall stumbling upon a Beatles radio documentaries with delight only equalling treasure hunters discovering caches of diamonds. I danced and played the tennis racquet like a guitar.

My mom’s vinyl collection served me well over those years too: soundtracks to James Bond films like Goldfinger; country music by Glen Campbell; classical piano collections like Glen Gould, canadian folk icons like Gordon Lightfoot, and jazz by Oscar Peterson; and my mostly absent dad’s favourite: surf rock electric guitar mavens: the Ventures.

At age 10 I started composing prolifically on my mom’s white upright piano which I taught myself to play- inspired hugely by Mike Oldfield’s mega- successful “Tubular Bells” released on the young Richard Branson’s New Virgin Record label.

But as important as the sweeping composition was, it was the process by which his album came into being that was the clin