Welcome to the abbreviated web home of Ian Naismith, experimental ethnoambient composer. 

His music is an amalgam of acoustic ethnic, world electric, ambient, progressive rock, and jazz fusion wrapped within a fourth world vibe. 

Guitars, stringed instruments, loops, textures & treatments, and percussion from all over the world abound in the recordings.

Original recordings  (click on photo below to read and hear)

 

Zxotica (2011) Otherworldly Natural (2011) Under Canopy (2010) Isbre, Possible Fragments For Orchestra (2009)
Mankiala Stupa Aura (2009) Curved Infinity (2009)
Subterranean Flame  (2003) Aquatic II:  Webcloning (Disposable Musics) (2003) Voyage Exotique  (2002)
Aquatic I:  Requiem For A Spy  (2001)

 

As a featured guest

Out:  17 Modern Guitarists Salute Derek Bailey  (2006 - Kronosonic Compilation)       Sixteen Days In The Gulf Of Silence  (2004 - Kronosonic Compilation)       Progressive Rock Collectors (2002 - PRC Compilation)   

Purchase (click on a photo below for linking to landing page)

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Videos (click on a photo below to see)  All of these beautiful videos are produced by the avant-garde video artist "The Fibro Twins"

Ian Naismith - Sanmaarga                              

Just in! - Ian is finishing DreamDrones - a journey that induces sleep (if not, call an ambulance)....

News -  Ian is currently working on projects, "Jupiteroctopi, Paath & Terra Mysterioso"

Bio -  Ian grew up in South Texas, and lives on the Florida gulf coast with his family.  He makes his living in the financial industry, and does music strictly for the love of it.

Description of Ian's music (as channeled by the late Jimi Hendrix)

Naismith's music defies categorization and contains natural and organic sounds, acoustic ethnic music, electric world music, progressive rock, avant-garde jazz, and

concrete experimental music. It is not unusual for a CD to have over 100 different instruments. Naismith's approach to electric guitar displays a wide range of beautifully

strange textures and unusual harmonic layers, and his solo work is truly unique - what Naismith likes to call "serpentine guitar" due to the slippery melodic lines.