• Northern Lights

    • The Sea of the Edge (2010)
    • Northern Lights (2010)
    • Echoes of Silence

    • Revontulet

    • Nocturne in Blue and Silver

    • Valkrior

    • Reflections on the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (2010)
    • Quark Walk

    • The Snail Mound

    • Soliton Gates

    • The Nonsense

    • The Symmetry Break Terrace

    • Octagonia

    • The Snake Mound

    • Two Ways to Paradise

    • The Autumn Song (2009)
    • Welsh Folksongs (2008)
    • Dafydd y Garreg Wen

    • Suo-gân

    • Lliw Gwyn Rhosyn yr Haf

    • Lisa Lân

    • Hela’r ‘Sgyfarnog

    “Rendered here in woodwind tones and acoustic guitar, the ambient landscape compositions of Stephen Goss exist in the grey area where ECM chamber-jazz and Hathut minimalism shades into Windham Hill new-ageism. At its best, it’s utterly captivating: the solo flute piece “The Sea of the Edge” is as hauntingly desolate as the moon feature after which it’s named, and the four-part suite “Northern Lights” hangs like East Coast fog, clarinet and flute in sparse, unhurried collusion akin to a meditative Feldman work. And the transcription to flute, guitar and clarinet works particularly well on the eight-part “Reflections on the Garden of Cosmic Speculation”. The Independent

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    Northern Lights
    Music by Stephen Goss
    Susie Hodder-Williams – flute, alto flute and piccolo
    Chris Caldwell – bass clarinet, C clarinet and soprano saxophone
    Graham Roberts – guitar
    FMR Records FMRCD303-0311 © 2011

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