Paris Music Corp. shares ‘Midnight Pad’ and ‘Sun Halos’
Paris Music Corp.
Brownsville, Texas-based electronic project Paris Music Corp., led by composer John Andrew Paris, has just released the tracks “Midnight Pad” and “Sun Halos”, taken from the new album “Ecotone“, released digitally on October 24, 2025 via Parisongs.
The two pieces extend the album’s focus on natural cycles and borderland geography. “Ecotone” takes its name from the transitional zone where ecosystems overlap, reflecting Paris’ move back to his childhood home in Brownsville, a city close to both the Gulf Coast and the U.S.–Mexico border. The album was written, recorded, mixed and mastered at Tarantula Studios over 2024–2025.
Describing the process behind “Midnight Pad”, Paris calls it “another late-night writing excursion using some mind expansion influence”, starting as an idea sketched on his phone before being rebuilt with hardware synths and drum machines in the studio. He links “Sun Halos” to Brian Eno’s notion that “music just happens”, adding that the track arrived almost like a “magic trick” when it evolved into an earworm melody.
“The ‘Ecotone’ album made sense to me because you have a transitional zone, where two different ecological communities or ecosystems meet and intermingle,” he notes, tying the record to a renewed closeness to the coastal landscape where he grew up.
Earlier singles “Rituals” and “No Soy A.I.” introduced the album’s range. “No Soy A.I.” features Spanish vocals by Texan musician, writer and actor RayPerez and addresses the emotional distance in emerging AI relationships, including virtual partners, while remaining the only vocal track on an otherwise instrumental release.
Stylistically, Paris Music Corp. works in an ambient, dark-ambient and darkwave-adjacent space, using heavily processed guitar and bass, layered loops, drum programming and live hand percussion to build dense, cinematic soundscapes. It’s material that should please fans of Bowery Electric, Muslimgauze, Boards of Canada, Sunn O))), Fennesz, Bonobo, Autechre, Tim Hecker and Vangelis.
About Paris Music Corp.
Paris Music Corp. is the project of experimental and ambient musician-composer John Andrew Paris. Originally active for many years in Austin, Texas, he is now based in Brownsville in the state’s far south, close to the border and coast.
Paris has a long history of collaborations in the Austin scene, including work with Arthur Brown (The Crazy World of Arthur Brown), DJ Rev Kathy Russell, DJ Lucas Ray, Catastrophe Ballet, Le Reve, Life’s Eyes, Beast of Eden, OBOYO and Don Wigwam. Alongside album work, he has composed for film, scoring the historical documentary “Andy Paris: Bubble Gum King” and the horror film “Spectral Wind”, both of which also appeared as soundtrack releases.
The first Paris Music Corp. full-length, “Rewound”, appeared in 2017, followed the same year by the “Andy Paris: Bubble Gum King (Original Soundtrack)”. After a five-year gap, Paris returned with the self-titled “Paris Music Corp.” album in 2022, recorded in his Austin home studio. The “Spectral Wind” soundtrack EP arrived in 2023, marking his continued activity in film music. In 2025 he released the single “No Soy A.I.!” featuring RayPerez ahead of “Ecotone”, which followed on October 24, 2025 via Parisongs as a 15-track digital album.
Influence-wise, Paris has cited Mick Karn, Pink Floyd, Gary Numan, Tim Hecker, Casino Versus Japan and Miles Davis.
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