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Bringer of Light
LVX is a companion of sorts to the NOX 6-CD set I produced whilst in Mongolia, but with the focus being on various sources of light and/or illumination, and my realisation of these musically. LVX is latin for "Light", so Sol, Isis-Luna, Aurora and Prometheus are the four sources of inspiration I chose for each of the four tracks. To listen to excerpts from each of the tracks, simply click on the appropriate headings below...

1. Sol Invictus [excerpt]
2. Aurora Borealis [excerpt]
3. Isis Luna [excerpt]
4. Prometheus Rising [excerpt]

In "Sol Invictus", I tried to capture the "sound" of the sun, and in particular the shimmering midday heat we experienced during our six months in the Middle East, the fiery golden chariot of the daytime, glaringly intense and burning with ancient power. For "Aurora Borealis", I imagined the mysterious northern lights that seem like light beams of the inner sun from the land of Agharta, and the swirling non-tempered chords of this piece, an ancient organ and choir rising up from the infernal depths of the earth, audible only during the opening of the polar iris. "Isis Luna" by contrast is colder, more aetheral and majestic. The austere beauty of the face of the silver moon. The final track, "Prometheus Rising", is an ecstatic hymn to the bringer of light and illumination in all his names/guises. It combines electronically-altered prayer calls I recorded in Oman with slowed-down piano samples from my Howl setting, retrograde vocals from an old unreleased GTS recording of a famous jazz ballad, and my self-realisation of a short pointillistic piece for seven pianos that I wrote whilst in Dubai.