Steve Roach - Long Night - Electronica - CD

The Long Night is a deep-breathing sigh of the eternal nocturnal: gossamer atmospheres for the still hours of the night. Focusing on non-rhythmic, textural-harmonic electronic soundscapes, it's midnight path leads to a state of gleaming serenity and calmness. The meditative environment is filled with open spaces and tendrils of sound, composed of shifting subtle moods and gleaming hand-worked electronic passages. The Long Night is a 61-minute contemplative zen noir of minimal radiant ambience. "There's nothing really dark, sinister or brooding about this album as one might expect from a release themed around the nocturnal hours. But instead the release fully embraces the lush uncoiling & often hypnotic spirit of nighttime itself. All told it's another very rewarding collaborative release from Mr. Roach, and if you enjoy slow yet subtle detailed ambience with harmonic & soothing edges to it - this could well be for you." - Musique Machine.