Skyline Hotel – A Love I Won’t Mind
Oddisee – In My Day
Famous For A Century – Kindled (Reprise)
Jason Masi – Ease Your Worried Mind
aerialist – nebulon
Empresarios – A Fuego Lento
ZOMES – Black Magic Band
Jordan Clawson – Yes You Can
Atoka Chase – Iron, Blood, And Bones (or The Children’s Crusade)
Rumpole – Blue Note Special
Constant Alarm – I Am Lying
Vandaveer – Concerning Past & Future Conquests
Stephen Allen Kochersperger – Headhunter Serenade
Ben Kingsland – The King Beneath the Mountains
Zenon Slawinski – Loon Tune
Fat Kneel – Octolude
Jason A Mullinax – Home World
Thomas Zebovitz – Inspirited
Greenland – Silver Spring
Ben Williams – Things Don’t Exist

Ben Dransfield – Slow Motion
Columbia Nights – Cerulean
Akira Otsuka – Bash
B Side Shuffle – Tiny Magnets
Smoke Bellow – Middling 1
Little Hunts – Refractory
Terrill Mast – See You Around the Moon
Paul Swartzel – My Father Knew Colonel Sanders
Big Moth – Vulnerable
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Deep Deep Down Heart
The Evens – Cache Is Empty
Ken & Brad Kolodner – The Orchard
Black Dog Prowl – Shame
Roger Aldridge – Salt Marsh Rag
makeup girl – Disappointed
Jason A Mullinax – Octopus Tree
Aaron Agre – Lion of Fallujah
The Red Fetish – South Virginia
Harry Jay Smith and the Bling – Homegrown
Buildings – You Are Gone

Jason A Mullinax – Next Time We Fly
Suzanne Brindamour – Pop’s Theme
Astronaut Jones – Keep It Down
Lungfish – Cut to Fit the Mouth
Young Rapids – Melt
RDGLDGRN – Hangout
Moonlight Mask – The Nightingale
TRU Band – Thelonius Funk
Aaron Abernathy – Faded Pictures
Jonny Grave – L’Enfant Promenade
Oddisee – When Everything Changed
Bunny Man Bridge – Shush Mutt
Nitemoves – Music Song
Miter – Young
Matt Chaconas – Goodnight
Technicians – Low Tide
Koshari – Into Shreds
We Were Pirates – A Boy & His Tiger
AndrewN – Night Falls
The Acorns – Oak Follies

Brian Settles – Understanding
Baby Bry Bry – Slumzzz
Sri Rama – The Dragon From Naples
Mathrat – Gravity Waves
Jan Knutson – Amsterdam
Infinite Adolescence – 80’s
The Acorns – X-Country Skier
Jason A Mullinax – Goodbye, Earth!
The Orchid – The Astronaut (Escape Velocity)
Sunwolf – Velvet
East Ghost – Architect
Decahedron – Movement A
The Rail Runners – Get Off the Tracks
Country Gentlemen – Have I Told You Lately That I Love You
Sonic Thee – Speaker
The Evens – Shelter Two
Suzanne Brindamour – Barnstormers Approach
Scythian – Last Days of Summer
Lungfish – Black Helicopters
Two Dragons and a Cheetah – Poetry and Light

Home World

As the song moves from polyrhythms to luminous ambient tones, it resembles a soundtrack to footage of an alien landscape. But Mullinax, 37, places his inspiration closer to Earth.

“A few years ago, my wife and I visited some friends in Oregon and they took us to see the famed Octopus Tree on the coast,” writes the composer and music instructor in an email. “It must’ve made an impression on me because I kept it in my head for a while, and knew one day I was going to use that name for something.”

“Octopus Tree” (listen below) is the first song recorded for Home World, Mullinax’s latest album and his first release under his real name. After two decades recording and performing as Pilesar, he decided it was time for a change.

“Pilesar had all this history and baggage associated with it,” Mullinax writes. “I wanted to free myself from all of that, so dropping the name seemed like the best way to go about it. In a way, it was like taking off a mask. I had the freedom to become the musician that I’ve always wanted to be.”

The change let Mullinax tighten his approach to music, too. “I noticed a lot of my earlier records were all over the map aesthetically, so I wanted to try to rein things in and focus on creating a mood or an idea that could sustain a whole album,” he writes.

The musician released Home World in August, posting it as a free download on Bandcamp. Now the prolific artist says he’s already working on his next few albums, some of which he plans to release in early 2016.

As trippy as Home World is, it’s not Mullinax’s most mind-expanding project. That would be his Music Discovery Lab, which he describes as “a workshop for kids, teens and adults that helps them explore the artistic potential of all sound.”

Mullinax wants to turn the Music Discovery Lab into a career.

“My goal is to make it a full-time job one day, going around to schools, throwing a bunch of toys on the floor and making a racket with all the kids,” he writes. “It’s a blast.”