Steve Roach - Midnight Moon (2000)

GENRE..... Ambient
LABEL...... Projekt
MODE....... VBRkbps / Joint-Stereo
REL.DATE.. 02-06-2008

A stunning recording of quietly moving soundworlds, Midnight Moon is a 70 minute-plus
collection of haunting, minimal, deep-of-the-night, mood-drenched pieces. The recording was
conceived in 1998 when Steve began to explore his own style of atmospheric, processed
guitar-based zones, approaching the instrument "with a beginner's mind, the Tabula Rasa, or
clean slate." Steve comments, "I set off with no technical understanding or desire to
develop in any sense of a conventional guitar player.

"With this recording, I feel I am entering into a psychological landscape that is difficult
to describe without characterizing it as ædarkÆ or æmysterious.Æ I feel the metaphor of
entering a vast cave is fitting, the sensation of going into new areas that pull you deeper
and then deeper again. In that sense, it's really about exploring your unconscious creative
landscape through the music, as if the sound becomes the illumination of this process, like
the subdued glow of a single torch flickering against cavern walls that have never been lit
before.

"During and after the recording of Dust To Dust, Roger King would leave his guitars in the
studio. At a certain point, the impulse to pick up the instrument simply occurred. Up to
that point, it was a foreign object. I started to explore and feel my way in the dark with
the instrument, actually playing with very little light in the studio to enhance the
exploratory state of mind. All the pieces were created in the late-night, early-morning
hours at a time when I was clearly hovering in a hypnogogic state. Over time, I continued to
discover and revisit the place that became Midnight Moon. I used the guitar as I do with all
the instruments that I am drawn to, creating my own language and approach that serves the
music in a directly intuitive way.

"After two decades of using synths as the main foundation for my soundworlds, the guitar
proved to be a stimulating way to approach these soundworlds I live within. Midnight Moon
captures an atmosphere I know I will never access again, since the magic was in the
discovery. I simply managed to record the process as it was unfolding. Working with some
great textural guitar players over the years, such as Suso Saiz, David Torn and Jorge Reyes,
also fed the fire that was burning quietly to do this type of project; the difference being
I was thinking of a collaboration with a guitarist rather than playing the instrument
myself."

In the end, it is the music that always matters. After extensive looping and processing, the
sound has an indigo hue, often beyond recognition of what the original source could have
been. The result is one of pure introspection, offering a perfect flow of mood-altering
soundworlds for infinite repeat-mode playback. In a world obsessed with categorizing all
aspects of artistic expression, Midnight Moon is a another offering to the unnamed,
ineffable realm of pure ambient - atmospheric music, one that Steve Roach expresses with
quiet nobility.

Tracklist:

01 Ancestors Circle
02 Midnight Loom
03 Deadwood
04 Broken Town
05 Hope
06 Later Phase
07 Moon And Star

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