Darkest Before Dawn
Steve Roach
2002 Timeroom Editions
DARKEST BEFORE DAWN is a single track, long-form ambient composition intended to play continuously. This is truly minimal electronic ambience -- no beats, no rhythms, no melodies. Not fully void of pattern though, the music rises and falls like imperceptibly rolling, billowing mists within a strictly limited tonal palette. The variations in sound are slow and hard to organize in the mind, seeming for all the world like a dense, unchanging sonic haze, yet in reality the shifting drone substance of the piece ebbs and flows, thickens and disperses constantly. This incredible recording was created entirely on one most heavily processed guitar, live, with no revisits to the final except to master the CD.
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