With a ten-year history of classical and jazz training in piano, tenor saxophone, guitar, degrees in Recording Arts and Entertainment Business, DeRon has a unique appreciation for the artistry of music. However, this background merely laid the foundation for what DeRon became. With early professional production in the mid nineties, he was drafted into the hip-hop and R&B scene.
His production received underground recognition across the states; nevertheless this was not the true road DeRon wanted take. While the minor success and appreciation was gratifying, DeRon felt the limits of compromising his artistry for a commercial sound.
In an attempt to show how truly universal music could be, DeRon offered the independent scene his first true solo effort in 2001 under the alias of Azariah. The album was entitled “The Healing”. It was an exotic mixture of jazz, rock, and world music. This recording was the maverick for the eclectic, electric, experimental sound that DeRon now likes to call “ocean music."
After recording various projects under a mixture of monikers such as Azariah, Empathy In Love, Modern Kitten Theory, DJ Iceberg, Cure for Cancer, and a host of others, DeRon finally took off his mask and revealed his true talents with his project, "The Ministry of You" in 2004.
This track begins very mellow and grows powerful and intense. The second half of the track brings the song to a hypnotic, melodic closure. Instrumental, Rock Music, Rock Fusion
Elegant New Age, beautiful and haunting piano, flute, woodwinds and indigenous winds. Sad strings, floating soundscape. A pensive melody that speaks of loss, sadness, lost love,reflections of nostalgia and melancholy. Instrumental, New Age Music, Ethnic Fusion
Dramatic and mysterious music, with rattles, shakers, indigenous wind instruments and other musical elements. Essentially a beautiful floating bed of sound. Briefly toward the end a male radio voice talks about Saddam Houssin's policies -- negligible interruption, adds to mystery. Instrumental, New Age Music, Ethnic Fusion
2.18 minutes of divine avant-garde electronic spaceship or industrial noises, like checking to be sure all systems are in order. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Electronic Music
