Presentation:

Monistic Idealism & New Paradigms Of Consciousness

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Biography:

Known for his highly melodic, folk and psychedelia-inflected indie pop, Alex Ebert kept himself busy from the early days of his career, fronting the punkier Ima Robot for several years before adding his more famous second group, the nearly dozen-member Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, to his schedule in 2007. With both bands still active, Ebert released his first solo album, the self-recorded Alexander, in 2011. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros followed up their debut in 2012 with the full-length album Here. It climbed to No. 5 on the Billboard 200, also charted in France & Australia. The group’s self-titled third album followed in mid-2013 and his the U.S. Top 15. He went on to find work in film & TV scoring, composing a blend of instrumental chamber pop and symphonic music for projects including the 2013 film All Is Lost. In 2018, Ebert released a series of trippy, DIY indie electronica EPs under the project heading In Support Of The 5ame Dude. That year he also launched an app called TUNERS, with a goal to create a thread-based music sharing space the compared to an audio version of Reddit. Releasing music again under his own name, I vs. I was an eclectic, sprawling second solo LP that Ebert described as a borderline concept album. Ebert continues to be a prolific performer and publishes a very popular Substack newsletter: @BadGuru.