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Richard Sun
ATOI is the vehicle for Richard Sun's philosophy. Sun was born in 1961 and hails from Old Town, in Chicago, where the influences on his music began at an early age. Sun grew up in his father's coffee house, the Witch's Haven, where he was influenced by the power of unconventional music and poetry. Sun's other influences include the original radicals, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, as well as musical entities such as David Bowie, Pink Floyd and Motown. He looks back to the 60's as a time when psycho-activated sound was in its infancy and its heyday.
Sun is a practitioner of Crowley-ian Mysticism and has an interest in occult spirituality and mind expansion, moving the direction of his music towards creating a gateway with the outer world and achieving a never-ending ecstasy.
