The Mists of Time

Tracks :-

1. “When the Earth was Young”
2.. “Out of the Darkness They Came”
3.. “Ape Man”
4.. “And They Took to the Skies”
5.. “Earthshine”
6.. “Andromeda”
7.. “Strange new World”
8.. “Age of Darkness”

This CD was composed a couple of years ago. It’s very loose theme is the history of the Earth; well, obviously not all of it, a little has been left out. It’s a collection of very different tracks but the music is generally spacious and moody with moving evolving synthesiser texture backdrops to several of them. Most of the tracks have rhythmical sections over which solos and melodies flow. Tracks 1&2 are slow and atmospheric, conjuring up moods of earths early period leading up to the creation of life on the planet. By tracks 3&4, an electronic ’bones riff’ announces that man has arrived and then he attempts to get off the planet. Tracks 5&6 are light; a kind of floating in air or space music. Track 7 looks to the future, out to what other habitable worlds may be out there. Obviously this a rocky track. Finally for contrast, track 8 is an purely electronic experimental sound-scape about the vastness, the coldness and darkness of space in which the earth is a mere speck of space dust.!

Both digital and analogue synthesisers have been used for this CD. I’ve tried to mix old and new technologies together in an interesting way, producing some new unusual sounds. The recording is again entirely by analogue tape equipment, with the CD production master a simple direct copy off the master tape.