Track Listings (7) - Disc #1| All Artists: Steve Roach Title: Midnight Moon Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: Projekt Records Original Release Date: 4/25/2000 Release Date: 4/25/2000 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, New Age, Pop Styles: Ambient, Electronica, Indie & Lo-Fi, American Alternative, Europe, Continental Europe, Meditation Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 617026009926, 617026009261 |
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Tribal-ambient maestro Steve Roach leaves the percussion behind and returns to glorious stripped-down form on Midnight Moon. Closer in spirit to albums from the beginning of his career (notably 1984's Structures from Silen... more » |
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Amazon.com Tribal-ambient maestro Steve Roach leaves the percussion behind and returns to glorious stripped-down form on Midnight Moon. Closer in spirit to albums from the beginning of his career (notably 1984's Structures from Silence) and some of the early work of ambient pioneer Harold Budd, Moon sees Roach pick up a new instrument: the guitar. Not surprisingly, he wields it like a keyboard, weaving different sustained tones together to present something soothing yet just unsettling enough to make you pay attention. The instrument's lonely, gently foreboding sound undulates through the disc's 70-plus minutes, evoking a timeless desert landscape captured during the stillness of night. Along with The Magnificent Void, this is undeniably one of Roach's strongest pure-ambient recordings. --Steve Landau Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBrilliant, haunting ambient expanse. Nigel Funge | Redwood City, California United States | 05/04/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Steve Roach produces yet another brilliant album of sparse ambient beauty. This is a single continuous piece of slow moving gorgeous sounds that evoke the albums title, "Midnight Moon". It's a great CD to listen to on a continuous loop or with other Roach stuff like `Dreamtime Return' (generally considered his masterpiece) or `Atmospheric Conditions'. I find this album wonderful for falling asleep to or for late night listening. Gorgeous." Ambient by definition Michael Paulsen | Rancho Santa Margarita, CA USA | 05/30/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Here, Steve Roach has created a tranquil, more meditative album, somewhat reminiscent of his mid-80's releases like "Structures from Silence" and "Quiet Music", however this time it's all done amazingly with guitar, and is considerably more moody and dark. If anything, this album travels through terrain similar to that mapped out by Brian Eno and Harold Budd -- with its slow, reverberating tones, sounding uncannily like Budd's trademark piano effects at times. A nice departure of sorts for Steve that beautifully does its title justice. The ultimate album to drift off to or a soundtrack to camping out in the high desert under the stars and, of course, the moon ... that is, if you can handle the album's darker qualities." Dreamy, guitar-oriented music from space music pioneer David B. Spalding | Chromejob-dot-com | 08/10/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "Unlike much of Steve Roach's well known work, this album accentuates guitars and dreamy reverie over dark rumblings and spiritual landscapes. It's as evocative and expansive as his best work (DREAMTIME RETURN, WELL OF SOULS, THE MAGNIFICENT VOID among them), but more melodic and gentle. A welcome change of pace from a master of the core ambient, "space music" genre."
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