somethingambient is the culmination of two and a half years of work on the part of James Webster, or HCMJ. Guitarist and vocalist for Dayton fantasycore space rockers, The Sailing, HCMJ combines elements of many forms of electronic music and fuses them with brit pop sensibility. In its conception, somethingambient was meant to be a soundtrack of contemporary video game music, the video game being the life of its creator. It soon ballooned into a double disc project chronicling a cosmic coming of age, and a lament for the loss of the sleepwalking life of a child. The result is a sort of wavering synth opera, built from flowing dreary chords cascading like mist over the snowdrifts around a drafty window on a cold winter's day. Each song is a little universe, telling a single fractured piece of one man's journey to escape the terrestrial boundaries of his mind. Like transmissions sent from far beyond the Jovian giants, the scale of the universe and the depth of heartache are explored in this two disc opus. At the center of the story we find our hero locked in a space capsule, voluntarily jetting away from earth ¬ with nothing but a synthesizer as a companion. As he passes each planet, he sends back the music he's created. Each song reflecting on the story of lost love and uncertain joy that was his life before the voyage, set to the background of the infinite expanse of space. The result is something beautiful, something haunting, somethingambient.