The jazz fusion of tomorrow is here today via Michael Whalen’s innovative
Future Shock, also the title of Alvin Toffler’s 1970 best-seller about psychologically drowning in a swift-moving current of rapid technological change. Humanity has nothing to fear from Whalen’s forward-looking instrumentals, where refreshing washes of electronica and streaming melodic puzzles of progressive dynamics erase unsettling dystopian visions and ease feelings of being unmoored and isolated in a cold, godless computer age.
Gradually evolving soundscapes unfold throughout
Future Shock, entirely composed, arranged, produced, and mixed by the Emmy Award-winning Whalen, renowned for his television soundtrack work and keyboard, synthesizer and programming wizardry. It is no wonder then that