In July of 2014, Tim had a heart attack, and it was during his healing process of utilizing meditation techniques, and just slowing down in general as part of his recuperative process, that Alexander discovered Dean Evenson’s peaceful Earth music that literally and figuratively became instrumental in his recovery.

Coincidentally, Alexander has moved his family to the Bellingham, Washington area, where he opened and operates Herb’s Cider Company, in the heart of downtown. Bellingham is a wonderfully tight and supportive music community, and it didn’t take very long to meet Dean and Dudley Evenson, founders of Soundings of the Planet, also based in Bellingham.

Dean and Tim hit it off right away, and decided to collaborate on a recording project, the Net of Indra, album released in 2018 on Soundings of the Planet, renowned for soothing, gentle and healing acoustic music.

Net of Indra follows the contemplative formula. The musical pairing of flute and drums—taken together are arguably the oldest of all instruments—is fittingly primal. Alexander’s drumming lays forth an atmosphere of depth, substance and warm resonance. Both elemental and tribal, there is a grounded, reverberant bedrock of calm permeating the mixes. Gentle rays of synth weave together this epic aural landscape centered in the peaceful, grounded world Dean and Tim have created.