John Flomer
// composer and musicianJOHN FLOMER is a composer and musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota. “ONE” (1991) was independently released, “Mysterious Motions Of Memory” (1997), “Night In The Vapor Jungle” (1999), and “Of A Stranger Light” (2002) are all available from JohnFlomer.com and Spotted Peccary Music. John Flomer has played guitar and toured with Archangel for almost a decade, before enrolling in a design program at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design where he explored his passion for film music as a visual experience. John Flomer writes music “to satisfy a constant need for the sublime, mysterious and exotic experiences that lie just beyond human comprehension”.
Website: www.johnflomer.com
Photo: John Flomer / JohnFlomer.com
Interview:
For me, music is prayer, it is a portal, a destination never arrived at, an attempt to answer unclear or impossible questions, to re-connect with connections long broken, an attempt to understand or communicate with the elusive workings of my mind – my soul, to learn where I came from or to find my way home, to satisfy a hunger – a thirst – an itch that I cannot identify, to reconcile my insignificance within the framework of “forever”, to ease the trauma of birth, to soothe the uncertainty of death, to feel what cannot be felt in any other way. “What is the spiritual significance of music?” I don’t know. I am small.
“For me, music is prayer, it is a portal, a destination never arrived at, an attempt to answer unclear or impossible questions, to re-connect with connections long broken…”
– John Flomer, composer and musician
