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Evening Hush
Emerald Adrift →44 listeners371 plays
ambientdark ambientabstractelectronicexperimental
about this album
We are proud to welcome David Herpich back to Earth Mantra with his latest Emerald Adrift release, a graceful and intriguing album called Evening Hush. We have long considered David to be one of the most talented artists we know, given his astounding fusion of deep academic knowledge with absolutely incomparable taste and artistic vision. He is one of those rare individuals who feels the music intuitively, who can express unbridled passion in his compositions, and yet his music is more than technically challenging enough to satisfy any purist. And with his latest offering, a collection of indescribable keyboard compositions of immense beauty, he reminds us again of why we hold his gifts in such high regard. This is a collection of three gorgeous instrumental pieces that, despite their sparseness and surface simplicity, are constructed with an intricacy that would impress a master watchmaker, and an aching loveliness that sounds a powerful note of hope despite the general air of melancholy. Of the music, David simply says: "The tracks are introspective. They are of epic length, but focused on the internal, and on interaction between individuals. "There was no attempt at a genre. The music was not designed to be ambient or new age or classical. Instead, it was an intuitive mix of influences." We would wholeheartedly agree that this music is difficult to categorize. David's pace is wonderfully slow, patiently allowing the music to develop organically of its own accord. Thus
