| Midnight Moon | 
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Sales Rank: 104755
Category: Music
Artist: Steve Roach
Publisher: Projekt Records
Studio: Projekt Records
Manufacturer: Projekt Records
Label: Projekt Records
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 617026009926
EAN: 0617026009926
ASIN: B00004SSVW
Release Date: April 25, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Ancestor's Circle | | • | Midnight Loom | | • | Deadwood | | • | Broken Town | | • | Hope | | • | Later Phase | | • | Moon and Star |
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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
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 I would love to have reviewed this, but.... October 30, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm a huge Steve Roach fan. I'd love to review this CD, but....
IT NEVER ARRIVED. I purchased the CD and my credit card was charged by "buybacksawmill" on September 25 2008. Now as of October 30, I still have no CD. Nor have several of my emails, been responded to.
It's this lazy, dishonest, or both- type of private seller that give online buying a bad name.
Disgusting!
 Formless feelings July 29, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Ah, "Midnight Moon"... reputedly Roach's most ghoulish, haunted piece of work. Indeed, this sound is moonlit, tortured, lonely and impenetrably foggy, the rain pours down, the boards of the house creak, the lights flicker out... The title is perfect.
It's also incredibly repetitive and monotonous, and in the end, has no substance. Every track consists of a fairly short loop with little variation. Focused listening of this album will result in boredom fairly quickly. Ironically, many of Steve's longer, even more minimal pieces (see the "Immersion" series) manage to entertain more than this album. This album is texturally thin, and I would propose that it was due to his use of guitars, and the absence of his trademark synth work, except that I've already heard and enjoyed the much more successful "Streams and Currents", which is also built from guitar sounds. Here, there is little to notice.
Despite this, there are two very successful pieces here, that do not run too long. The ghastly voices of "Deadwood" recall Nurse With Wound's similar "Salt Marie Celeste" album, and the final track "Moon and Star" is much more layered and features an almost coherent melody. For these two great songs, the album's interesting atmosphere, and the fact that the album works well as background music, I give it three stars.
For an album that expands on the textures and (somewhat) the feel of this one and finds real success, pick up "Streams and Currents".
 Hauntingly Beautiful March 15, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm very interested in the work of Steve Roach. MIDNIGHT MOON is, quite simply, one of his best albums. I would characterize it as 'dark ambient', similar in tone and texture to Lustmord's STALKER collaboration with Robert Rich. Whether you're new to Steve Roach or an established fan, this album is a must for your collection.
Great Music for Halloween!!! February 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
....or any Autumn night for that matter. Play this cd on a full moon October evening & one can just envision spirits & skeletons moving silently thru the moonlight across the front yard of your home! Carve that jack o'lantern!!!
 Tedious, Roach phones in his music for this one November 5, 2007
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Roach has done some great things but this album is little more than him noodling on a guitar that has been super processed through synthesizers. It would be a nice effect if he had any musical idea to put across but there is none. The point of this album seems to be the noise effect and nothing else. Sound effects for their own sake. Dull.
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