With his new album ‘Projections’, Brog (Brain fOG) — the recording project of multi-instrumentalist Lorn Potter — delivers an immersive sound experience that feels both deeply personal and expansively cosmic. Now based on Australia’s Gold Coast after growing up in Boulder, Colorado, Potter transforms lived moments and fleeting inspirations into sonic landscapes that blur the boundaries between ambient, psybient, and downtempo.
At the heart of Projections is Brog’s hallmark of unfiltered improvisation. Each track emerges from a spark — a single resonant sound — captured in real time with minimal editing. This approach gives the album its raw, organic flow, like a journal written in sound rather than words. A trip to a lighthouse, a symbol of guidance and distance, shaped much of the album’s emotional core, reflecting themes of connection and longing across time and space. Even the cover art — a haunting photograph of the moon at sunset taken by Potter himself — reinforces the celestial, meditative atmosphere.
The result is a psyjazz-infused exploration designed for calm introspection. Potter’s layered ambient textures, underpinned by subtle downtempo grooves, invite listeners to pause, drift, and breathe amidst the noise of modern life. His influences are vast — from Tangerine Dream and Pink Floyd to punk, jazz, metal, and folk — and they subtly echo throughout the album, reshaped into something uniquely his own.
Potter’s musical journey has been as eclectic as his sound. From childhood piano tinkering to trombone, bass, and guitar mastery, from punk gigs with Dead Silence (sharing stages with T.S.O.L. and 7 Seconds) to folk explorations in Telluride’s Tribal Folk, his adventurous spirit has always steered him toward uncharted territory. That restless energy now fuels Brog’s identity — a project rooted in freedom, improvisation, and emotional honesty.
With Projections, Brog offers not just an album, but a sanctuary: a sonic space where stillness and wonder coexist.
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