The music of Brendon Thomas, who performs under the name Foreverinmotion, is alike to a work of origami - endlessly jotting down the meaningful thoughts that circulate through his mind and folding them here and creasing them there, until they take a form that all can admire and can trace the contours of. Like the story of the thousand cranes, he attempts to come closer to making his wish come true with each song he shapes. It is a shape that is forever in motion...
"The name Foreverinmotion came from something I wrote in my journal when I was 17. I was digging into concepts of time and how the only thing that truly exists is the present, moment by moment, forever in motion. The past and future are illusions." Brendon reasons, though his previously released albums, the self-titled, Foreverinmotion and The Beautiful Unknown, are anything but an illusion. The latter was recorded and released by Brendon himself from his Vermont home. His independent tour lasted through the summer before he signed up with One Eleven Records. His self-described 'dreamy folk' sound brought forth a response from thousands entranced by the mystical melodies that go straight to one's heart while also stirring up the imagination.
"I am recording my 3rd full length album, which is yet to be titled, and will be released sometime in the spring of 2009. From there, I'll probably be out touring for the next two years." he proposes. "I would like my future to unfold like a tablecloth that drapes out over all horizons and fades into the void of all things and nothingness at once, and then turns to water. "
Extending from this sea of oblivion is the starting corner of his checkered destiny, dabbled with maple syrup and pointing to Springfield, Vermont.
"I grew up with my parents, my younger brother, and my grandmother. We all lived in an old Victorian style house that my grandmother runs as a bed and breakfast Inn, as well as a teddy bear shop. I had a pretty magical childhood. I was always doing something weird and creative, writing or getting lost in nature. I'm self-taught; guitar, piano, mandolin, drums, everything but saxophone, which I learned through the band program in grade school when I was 10. It wasn't until I started playing guitar, at the age of 14, that I felt like I had discovered something truly musical within myself."
He formed the group, Color Blind, a year later, practicing within the graffiti-sprawled walls of the drummer's basement, their music he describes as 'terrible in the best way possible'. In time, he then joined the group Blind Luck while also teaching guitar to the younger generation. In 2004, the luck ran out and Brendon began the pursuit of his own way and sound, which he performs on an Ovation acoustic guitar that, in the 70's, his father traded a jeep for.
"All kinds of things make me tick... music, people, poetry, madness, the ocean, mountains, the energy of big cities, the road, and movement. What makes me ME is something indefinable, but I think it is connected to all of these things." Brendon speculates. "I do what I do because I feel love and truth in what I do, even when it doesn't pay the bills. I want the world to know that I am secretly in love with it, and I write songs about it. I play music because I feel that music is my purpose, and it is the path that I must take to learn what I must learn in this life."
Whether this path takes him swimming with his pod, flying with the cranes or walking upon two legs, there can be no doubt that his message will be forever in motion.
"The name Foreverinmotion came from something I wrote in my journal when I was 17. I was digging into concepts of time and how the only thing that truly exists is the present, moment by moment, forever in motion. The past and future are illusions." Brendon reasons, though his previously released albums, the self-titled, Foreverinmotion and The Beautiful Unknown, are anything but an illusion. The latter was recorded and released by Brendon himself from his Vermont home. His independent tour lasted through the summer before he signed up with One Eleven Records. His self-described 'dreamy folk' sound brought forth a response from thousands entranced by the mystical melodies that go straight to one's heart while also stirring up the imagination.
"I am recording my 3rd full length album, which is yet to be titled, and will be released sometime in the spring of 2009. From there, I'll probably be out touring for the next two years." he proposes. "I would like my future to unfold like a tablecloth that drapes out over all horizons and fades into the void of all things and nothingness at once, and then turns to water. "
Extending from this sea of oblivion is the starting corner of his checkered destiny, dabbled with maple syrup and pointing to Springfield, Vermont.
"I grew up with my parents, my younger brother, and my grandmother. We all lived in an old Victorian style house that my grandmother runs as a bed and breakfast Inn, as well as a teddy bear shop. I had a pretty magical childhood. I was always doing something weird and creative, writing or getting lost in nature. I'm self-taught; guitar, piano, mandolin, drums, everything but saxophone, which I learned through the band program in grade school when I was 10. It wasn't until I started playing guitar, at the age of 14, that I felt like I had discovered something truly musical within myself."
He formed the group, Color Blind, a year later, practicing within the graffiti-sprawled walls of the drummer's basement, their music he describes as 'terrible in the best way possible'. In time, he then joined the group Blind Luck while also teaching guitar to the younger generation. In 2004, the luck ran out and Brendon began the pursuit of his own way and sound, which he performs on an Ovation acoustic guitar that, in the 70's, his father traded a jeep for.
"All kinds of things make me tick... music, people, poetry, madness, the ocean, mountains, the energy of big cities, the road, and movement. What makes me ME is something indefinable, but I think it is connected to all of these things." Brendon speculates. "I do what I do because I feel love and truth in what I do, even when it doesn't pay the bills. I want the world to know that I am secretly in love with it, and I write songs about it. I play music because I feel that music is my purpose, and it is the path that I must take to learn what I must learn in this life."
Whether this path takes him swimming with his pod, flying with the cranes or walking upon two legs, there can be no doubt that his message will be forever in motion.
written by Krystina Rene'
