Biography
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Years Active
2017 – present (7 years)
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Founded In
Kamloops, Thompson-Nicola Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
Mother Sun is Jonathan Cordle and Christopher Haynes, along with various friends at various times. The duo met in Pittsburgh and very quickly started making music together, first as music school students receiving formal training, then around the local clubs and gallery circuit. In bands of varying sizes for a few years, Cordle and Haynes produced artsy post-rock, dense art-pop, and neo-classical indie-psychedelia, working with a few other musicians from the Pittsburgh scene. Losing about a member a year on average, but continually evolving a complex sound, eventually Cordle and Haynes were working with a violist and no one else. Suddenly, in the summer of 2009, everything changed. Mother Sun released an intricate three song EP, lush with orchestration, to local critical acclaim. Then Cordle split from his long time fiancé and musical partner, while Haynes married his long-term girlfriend. Cordle hunkered down in Pittsburgh, working through a crisis of faith and emerging a stronger, more confident songwriter; Haynes relocated to Boulder Colorado and opened his mind to the epic possibilities of the mountains, embracing new compositional techniques.
And Mother Sun was reborn, emerging from this polarization as a collective partnership. The early inklings of melancholia-cum-bliss became a signature aspect of the music Cordle and Haynes created together, but in new, more subtle contexts. Stripped of all previous instrumentation, Mother Sun became an elision of digital multi-textures, samples, and warm analog fuzz, a dense haze of layered sound with floating seeds of melody and harmony, consonance and dissonance. Swapping tracks from across the country using free audio software, piecing together intricate compositions from 2000 miles away, Cordle and Haynes utilized the significance of their separate locations to further richen the sound they committed to developing, rather than allowing hardship to stifle creative pursuit, and coming through the other side with a full length album reflecting a new sound and new lives. Mother Sun became a combination of tight and dense urban noise and vast, wide-sweeping mountain soundscapes. Extremes meeting in one rich center, open-armed, Mother Sun became what life sounds like in dingy basements of low rent apartments, in the malaise of broken engagements and shattered hearts, in the euphoria of new found creative intensity, in the blissful ecstasy of sound battering your chest while fluttering gently around your ears.
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