Samuel Wexler/Music
Start with a feeling
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The music
Classically trained, genre fusing. Decades of albums, collaborations and live recordings. Pick a direction rather than a track number.
Deep listening KAN
Six movements, 105 minutes. Press one and hear where it goes, or open any of them for more.
I
Peaceful &
Meditative
9 min
A dreamy ambient track of rich violin in a resonant sonic wash.
Story and excerptsII
Grounded &
Free
7 min
A contemplative guitar and violin duet on a vibrant textural soundscape, buzzing with life.
Story and excerptsIII
Inspired &
Wondrous
27 min
Like a tour around the world and through time. I surrendered control and let it tell its own story, and it goes places even I never expected.
Story and excerptsIV
Energized &
Vital
10 min
Heavy hitting electronic and instrumental fusion. Electronic beats, latin rhythms, soaring synths and orchestral strings, with violin riding on a deep bass drive.
Story and excerptsV
Emotive &
Deep
34 min
Weaves you deeper into lush emotive strings in a continually evolving flow. I let the story write itself, and only later began to understand the narrative. The full cycle of death and rebirth.
Story and excerptsVI
Fresh &
Hopeful
15 min
Light, free, luminous. Transcend the weight of this world, then merge with the beyond. It carries you full circle, back to the hopeful and mysterious birth of KAN.
Story and excerptsMine
01 KAN 2022 Solo, studio
In Mayan symbolism, KAN is the glyph of abundance, fertility, maturation and harvest. Six movements, 105 minutes of genre defying music from the heart, for the heart. The first full length work I made completely alone, and the soundtrack to a film you create within your own mind.
02 Less Than Three 2020 Solo, live
What you see is what you hear. No overdubs, no play along, no pre production. Just violin, effects, a loop pedal and the moment. Then it sat at ninety percent complete for six years, and finishing it was about becoming a person who finishes what he starts.
03 Resistance is Futile 2024 Solo, experimental
AI let me generate a wide range of tracks, then inject them with a ton of live instrument soul, flipping them into a violin-centric album. A cyborg album built on the Borg of Star Trek, down to the track titles, around one question: can we embrace the new power of being cyborgs, without being predatorily assimilated by the Borg, nor becoming part of its collective? Live violin and djembe carry all fifteen tracks, every voice on it is mine, and every cent of profit goes to charity.
Also mine
Collaborations
Collaborating with a wide variety of musicians was instrumental in discovering my unique musical voice.
One thing I have always loved about playing with different people is that I never really know what their music will inspire me to play, and I often discover new sides of my musical expression in each context.
For many years I would not only record with musicians in the studio, but also jump in with them spontaneously on live violin at music festivals and shows. We had a great time with the surprise of suddenly making music together, and I am so grateful to everyone who opened their stage to me.
This is how I learned the sensitivity to improvise with pretty much anything, and it was my primary form of authentic musical expression for many years, until I got organized and focused enough to bring my own 100% original music through to completion.
Mastodon with Cualli, 2023
Cualli and I sat down together for every part of the process. Both of us generating musical ideas, both of us playing live instruments, each of us leaning into our own strengths and sharing the middle. Instrumental and electronic fusion, with parts that sound recognizably Cualli, parts that sound clearly like me, and parts neither of us can untangle.
Rain of Melody with Jocan Deka
A collaboration with Jocan Deka, released through Buddha Bar, with currently over 300,000 streams. It went out as the single preceding the Buddha Bar Beach ten year anniversary compilation, then again on the compilation itself, and it has held the top spot on my Spotify ever since.
Without You 2024 Music video
We made a music video for it. I come in at 2:07.
Also co-billed
Celtic Stars
with Jocan Deka 2024
Without You
with Fortu and La Pamela, featuring Soulbrothers Handpan 2024
Mountain Opus
with ill-esha
Strange Dream
with Swoonz and Mikey Fisher 2011
Records I played on
Saudade
Moontide, Suprematic Sounds
The Story Unfolding
KiloWatts, 2019
Live Forever
KiloWatts
Dendridic
Totem
Amorous
The Acidophiles, 2011
Frog Hop
Markus Whaley
Structural Liberation
Love and Light
Birds
Wei Chi Field, 2014
Tides
Lunar Fire, 2014
Biomimicrant Bass
Biomigrant, 2014
Be Strong
Midnite, 2013
Valle de Bravo
Classically trained. Genre fusing.
Multi-Instrumental
Composer, Producer & Live Loop Artist
Studio & Stage
The right violin, at the right moment, for the right feeling.
Music to spark your soul.
Music to awaken something inside you.
Music as a lifeline to the present moment.
The musician
Santa Fe, Mexico City Photo: Bash Mayans
I have built a career on being able to step into almost any music on the fly, find tasteful lines to support it, lift it to a new level, and make hearts soar. (I wouldn't make this up. This is the feedback I consistently get.)
Classical training gave me the instrument and technique. Improvisation showed me what I personally am meant to do with it.
Sensitivity makes the difference between playing over a piece of music and playing with it. That tastefulness is what makes people call me, for the studio and for the stage.
A musician with exceptional sensitivity and musical taste.Izcacel, bassist and composer
Violinist, composer, producer and live loop artist. Classically trained, genre‑fusing.
What musicians and listeners say
Better than me telling you about my music, read what fellow musicians and fans say.
He plays with the technique of a well formed classical musician and the improvisational sensitivity of a jazz musician. His music transmits beauty, refinement, and a full and generous heart.
Benny OyamaSinger, songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, Medicine Music
He is a musician who listens, who responds to what is happening in the music, and who knows how to find exactly what the moment needs. His creativity and his taste make every event where we share a stage special.
Es un músico que escucha, responde a lo que está sucediendo en la música y sabe encontrar exactamente lo que la situación necesita. Su creatividad y su buen gusto hacen que cada evento en el que compartimos escenario sea especial.
IzcacelBassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer
What you do with that violin, my God, it is a joy in something so wonderful it could not be explained, a connection that is not of this plane. Where listening to each melody takes you is astonishing.
Lo que haces con ese violín, Dios mío, es un regocijo de algo tan maravilloso que no podría explicarse, una conexión que no es de este plano. A dónde te lleva a escuchar cada melodía es impresionante.
DebbieAfter a performance
It was an experience that touched my heart and left me without words. The music, the sound of the violin, the voices, all of it came together to create an atmosphere that carried me to a place of peace and connection. At one point I felt that my body was too small for the love I was feeling.
Fue una experiencia que me tocó el corazón y me dejó sin palabras. La música, el sonido del violín, las voces, todo se unió para crear un ambiente que me transportó a un lugar de paz y conexión. En un momento sentí que mi cuerpo era muy pequeño para el amor que sentía.
AtahydraAfter Kirtan and Cacao
From massive festival stages
Feria Internacional del Libro
to intimate circles
Samueltaneous, live looping Tulum
Music as a lifeline to presence
Most of us spend the day inside our own heads, mistaking our thoughts for the world and looping through them instead of hearing what is actually happening.
When I immerse my full attention in the sound I am making, that sound becomes like a center of gravity, and you are invited into it.
When a room full of people gets hit by the same sound at the same moment, it can grab them and pull them out of their own story, into the raw experience of hearing.
Shared presence. Here, now, outside the individual stories.
Santa Fe, Mexico City
The violin chose me
I could say I chose the violin, but really the violin chose me. It called to the deepest part of my soul and I just answered the call.
I am the instrument of the violin.
You could definitely say that the violin is my instrument, but I often feel more like I am the instrument of the violin.
The voice of the violin is transcendent of any one violinist and touches our hearts in a potent and healing way. I am honored to be the instrument this voice flows through.
The violin has only existed for a relatively short piece of human existence, and we have no idea what exactly the sound is doing to us, or what role it is playing in our evolution. I feel honored to be a part of its story.
Live
The live loop project. A blank musical canvas, painted with a unique blend of sounds every iteration. No two performances are the same, and the goal is always to share something real, pure and alive with attentive listeners.
Commissioned works
KAN began as a commission. Samuel Gordon, founder of KAN Tulum, asked for a soundtrack to play throughout the hotel and in its videos, and told me to make whatever I wanted, however I wanted to make it. It became a 105 minute journey in six movements.
Two more commissions are composed and on their way, releasing in the coming months.
Work with me
Live
Solo looping, ensemble work, ceremony, festivals and studio sessions. From massive stages to intimate circles, anywhere the music goes.
Sync and licensing
Ambient, electronic, orchestral, world fusion and soundtrack, most of it instrumental. KAN alone is 105 minutes written to carry a scene. I own every right to my own recordings, so licensing is one conversation, not five.
Commissions
If you are creating something that needs its own music, I would love to hear about it: a soundtrack for a space or a film, music for a brand or a ceremony. Tell me the feeling you are after.
The catalog
Decades of albums, singles, collaborations, remixes and live recordings, spread across the platforms. A searchable catalog, by mood, instrument and year, is being built. Until it lands, these have all of it.
Original compositions and collaborations exploring the fusion of electronic beats and soundscapes with live violin, and sometimes other live instruments I play. A growing playlist on the music channel.
Watch the playlistEvery release, filterable by mood, instrument, genre and year, so you can find the right piece for the right moment without knowing its name. Being built now.
Hear when it lands
