composer
Echoes of Silence
Revontulet
Nocturne in Blue and Silver
Valkrior
Quark Walk
The Snail Mound
Soliton Gates
The Nonsense
The Symmetry Break Terrace
Octagonia
The Snake Mound
Two Ways to Paradise
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
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