Weather Exposed Skeleton Music – Jerusalem

So I’ve been doing reviews for a little while now on this site and get emails from bands all the time about reviewing their album. I’m always down to review anyone in town whether it’s a basement recording of some high schoolers making noise or a band with an actual budget putting out a record, but I always request a bio of some sort to find out more about them. I got an email from Weather Exposed Skeleton Music a while ago and I mentioned I needed a bio of some sort, written in crayon or whatever and just a burned copy of a CD. You know what I got? Exactly what I asked for, and that is extremely rad.
Weather Exposed Skeleton Music is composer/musician Jason Gray and the music is pretty far out there. It sounds like a wash of synth strings on top of synth cello with no direction. I’m not sure how to critique this album so here is my take:
You are in an airplane going to Mongolia when suddenly your plane goes down. It’s a small airplane so you got to know everyone on board over the last few hours and now you are all crashing together in a united panic. You crash and only yourself and one other person survive. You escape the flames but have a broken arm and leg. It’s now dark and you need food. You don’t find any. Your friend dies. You lie there in the snow for a few days and then you die. 20 years later a group of monks walk by and play a song on for you in a very non-chant respectful, peaceful way. They leave the bones there but they go on to record a memorial called “Weather Exposed Skeleton Music.”
Granted that was a bit darker than the actual music of the album but you get the idea. It’s a pretty well done high in mood album with the best press kit I’ve seen.

Weather Exposed Skeleton Music Links
WESM Myspace