Illuminated Manuscript

Cale Parks is best known as the classically trained drummer and percussionist for Aloha. In between recording takes for yet another critically acclaimed Aloha album (Some Echoes), Parks began work on solo material which would find its way onto Illuminated Manuscript.

In the past year, Parks split his time between several cities where he wrote all of the songs on the album. Recorded on borrowed four-tracks and computers, as he slept in borrowed beds, somehow, all of the songs feel comfortable, at home. As a result, Illuminated Manuscript has an intimate but intricate bedroom ambient electronic sound where keyboards and mallet instruments mix with sparse vocals and a television or the occasional cat meowing in the background.