Actually, quite a few of the upcoming articles have been a long time in coming, but we’ll get to that later.

I will try to be as concise and to the point as possible, because I know there’s no reason to draw this out, and readers want their information quickly.

You’re welcome to scan, and check out the sound cloud links at your leisure.

Let’s get started, shall we?

 Christopher Michael Sevanick, AKA “Chris Exeris”, AKA “Grains of Sound” (his brother Jason is only part of GOS in the studio, another thing that shall be addressed in this review), has hit the big time!

He’s scored “Odyssee 2015”, in Berlin, for New Years Eve.

First, I will provide a more in depth review of Grains of Sound.

The first thing anyone should know is that Christopher Michael Sevanick, aka Chris Exeris, doesn’t even write half the music for Grains of Sound. Most sound design, and anything that is bass or beat oriented (and I don’t mean the binaural beats that he layers into the music, to hypnotize those with weak minds, like Ania Ziolkowska), is written and produced by his brother, Jason Sevanick, aka Jason Durant.
Jason has been carrying Chris for over a decade. 

 Jason is not from NYC, as he keeps telling everyone. He’s from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has a degree in sociology, which means he knows how to manipulate people and groups.

He claims NYC, in order to seem “cool”, internationally. He’s actually in Pittsburgh, as I write this, dealing with the impending death of his father (the family are all alcoholics), but that is subject for another upcoming article.

 All Chris wants is to be famous, and he wants to be famous the easiest way possible.
He started as an activist, because, as we all know, activism attracts narcissists, and not any activist, but a PAID activist.
So he didn’t represent anything because he actually believed in it, but because he was PAID to.

Let that sink in, when listening to Mindless Faith, or Grains of Sound.

 As a musician, he is mediocre, at best.

I wrote a review a while back, to illustrate the deception of how he markets himself, and how he feels the world owes him everything.

He countered by actually beginning to admit his brother helps him write the music for Grains of Sound.

He’s no longer part of Mindless Faith, not only because he actually contributed nothing whatsoever, but also because his bandmates began to see is current affair with Ania Ziolkowska for what it is:

Yoko Ono, Breaking up the Beatles. Except they’re not even the Beatles.

However, this isn’t about Ania Ziolkowska emulating Marie Curie, riding on fame that is not even hers, because she is incapable of any type of creativity whatsoever, herself.

No, this is about the fact that, after, again, listening to every single thing Grains of Sound has ever made, I came upon one truth:

IT LACKS PASSION

 Chris may have learned how to use Ableton Live, but he hasn’t learned how to emote anything besides anger, and the productions of Grains of Sound are missing even THAT.

Ignoring that of all the dance music, psytrance holds the least emotion in it’s supposed music, Grains of Sound holds even less than that.

Listen to one of his tracks he made when he was in Poland, away from his brother. Be it “Trees Tell me their Secrets”, or “Booming Dunes“, you hear there’s not one modicum of emotion in either of them. You also learn that if there’s a “beat”, he’s incapable of making it. For that, he needs Jason.
See, the problem is he may technically know what to do in Ableton (and barely even that. Trees Tell me there secrets is over saturated in reverb), but translating any passion he MIGHT have into music just isn’t possible for him.

There’s such an overuse of phasing, and saturation, to mask the binaural beats he has layered within it, it has an immediately feeling of foreboding.

It’s suffocating.
It’s OPPRESSIVE.

It’s definitely not a vampire, I will give it that. It doesn’t wait for you to invite it in.
No.

It doesn’t ask you out, seduce you, attempt to woo you.
No, absolutely not.
It attempts to force it’s way into your mind, like a home invasion robbery.

I still don’t understand how someone who claims to have been producing for 15 years can be this BAD………

So how, you may ask, does someone like this get a gig like Odyssee?

Simple:

The moment I stated he needed to, to be known, he made the moves of meeting just the right people, both in Poland and Berlin, faking that he’s an NYC rock star, to get into the slot. 

However, he had the use of friends of a friend, from NYC, to get there. And he wasn’t even supportive of him, when his wife died.
Basically, Chris charmed his way in.

And he’s still a last minute decision, just as he was for the Zagoa festival in Cairo. He’s playing at the top of the evening, when most will be on the dance floor of the main room.

And anyone that does hear him will realize that, without drugs, he’s a huge disappointment.

And this “Live Synth Performance”?

People, he’s using Ableton.

ANYONE can program scenes and clips to be triggered by a midi controller. I do that myself. 

The set itself is pre-programmed, because he’s not even capable of mixing anything his brother didn’t make for him.

Chris Exeris doesn’t even OWN a synth.

So, congratulations, Grains of Sound. Congratulations on the opportunity to disappoint a larger set of listeners.

Author’s Note:

I wanted to get this in under deadline, so it’s actually unfinished. It will be an evolving article, as I transfer resources from my old iMac to my new Mac.